Example sentences of "[conj] make [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dickens also has this habit of making people out to be machines , or making objects become alive . |
| 2 | An America that stopped trying to ‘ solve ’ the conflict could still try to keep it manageable : by promoting arms control , say , or making Israel treat the Palestinians more gently . |
| 3 | The district was determined to get action on long-standing problems , for example , reducing waiting times in certain specialities , or making clinicians travel to patients for outpatient clinics at a peripheral community hospital , rather than make patients travel to the DGH . |
| 4 | And people think more of you if you have nice things — as if you 'd once had a ‘ beautiful home ’ , ’ she gave the words a slightly scornful emphasis that made Ianthe feel uncomfortable . |
| 5 | It was a demoniac sound that made hearts beat too fast , heads and bodies reel . |
| 6 | Rain that made Scotland seem like the Sahara was no sweat , but the midget trees ! |
| 7 | Fen smiled — a fleeting , secretive smile that made Robbie think he must be reminiscing about incidents on that walk — probably the overnight bits . |
| 8 | In his white face , there was nothing but a stillness deeper than the farthest depths of the sea — a quietness that made Ruth think of a drowned body drifting on its slow journey down to the sea bed . |
| 9 | He took them all off and that made Constanza laugh at once , but she did n't have much time for him , she was in love with someone else and he had enlisted . |
| 10 | ‘ I wish I knew , ’ Peter answered with a lack of tact that made Sarella cringe . |
| 11 | It was an awful noise that made Whizzo shift his feet anxiously . |
| 12 | There was a certain tone to it that made Nathan advance more cautiously . |
| 13 | ‘ How are you , old Pat ? ’ he asked , with a solicitous concern that made Patrick fume . |
| 14 | Lori sent him one of her most seductive smiles that made Paige long to warn her to be careful . |
| 15 | It was this detail of organisation that made Trent fear for the Belpan Republic . |
| 16 | ‘ You are at the edge of the first forest , ’ Wyn-rajathuk told her ; there was something about the expression on his wounded face , the slight edginess of his good eye , that made Tallis suspect he was holding back . |
| 17 | There was a sharpness in her tone that made Constance look up . |
| 18 | Villagers still talk of ‘ death rays ’ that made birds fall out of the sky and car engines stop when the beams were switched on . |
| 19 | Scotland Yard meant serious trouble , and though this thin-faced lugubrious-looking man might seem mild at first , there was a quid , controlled purposefulness about him that made holidays seem a 1u way away . |
| 20 | It was this that made Seb resolve he would not let the matter drop . |
| 21 | Just another bloody journalist , a dilettante with a ragbag mind , who thought that because he had a smattering of scientific language , which he produced with a glib assurance that made George want to choke him , he was qualified to question him , a serious scientist with an intellectual grasp that Gerrard could never understand , let alone achieve . |
| 22 | It was Pippin 's help which ensured that the ensuing battle would be fierce , Pippin 's arrival that made Lothar feel so confident that that night in his camp Archbishop George of Ravenna ( an Italian supporter who had invested hugely in Lothar 's cause ) promised him that " Charles should be tonsured tomorrow " — hence , excluded forever from kingly power . |
| 23 | He had light brown hair and a feral quality about him that made people do what he wanted . |
| 24 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |
| 25 | ‘ She 'll get over it , ’ Dana said with a callousness that made Claudia shudder . |
| 26 | She did n't need to ask ; there was an aura about Dana that made Claudia feel she was a grey shadow of her twin . |
| 27 | Roman looked at her in a way that made Claudia want to curl up and die , and she was n't on the receiving end , only tarred with the same brush . |
| 28 | She banged the receiver down with a force that made Claudia wince . |
| 29 | ‘ So you would , if you 'd been at home , ’ Roman rapped , his quietness discarded for an anger that made Claudia shiver . |
| 30 | Tearing her gaze away from that clear-cut mouth with a bottom lip that made butterflies dance in her stomach , she asked hurriedly , ‘ Perhaps you 've heard of Peter Sebastian ? ’ |