Example sentences of "[noun sg] to make [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant . |
| 2 | O'Brien suspects northern influence was brought to bear on Dick Spring to make him change his tune . |
| 3 | And , anyway , it was from the British he made his money , selling them scrap iron during the war , so it will be an extra pleasure to make him cough up that sort of loot . ’ |
| 4 | It takes a lot of gratuitous cruelty perpetrated in the name of dogma to make him criticize the Party , as when the ‘ Attack the Evil Winds of Capitalism Team ’ tells the old peasant Guo Lao-da to kill the six ‘ capitalist ’ ducks he owns . |
| 5 | The Owton Manor Primary School pupil from Hartlepool had his left leg broken and pinned in a bid to make it grow longer . |
| 6 | A pitcher can spin a baseball to make it follow a trajectory in any direction . |
| 7 | Surely if I know all this I should be able to put on just enough weight to make me feel comfortable , or at least stop losing any more ? |
| 8 | Apart from terrifying him into submission , there is no surefast remedy to make him comply with your wishes . |
| 9 | When I had a lock that was sticking what did I blow What powder I did I blow into the lock to make it work better ? |
| 10 | He does not require an imperative to make him avoid the sickness from the thought of which he already shrinks in nausea ; what he has to force himself to do is hold on to the fact that sickness is the likely outcome of yielding to temptation . |
| 11 | Even finding food was difficult , as Filon , the Empress 's secretary , discovered when he went to find some soup for her in an attempt to make her eat after nearly 36 hours with virtually nothing : |
| 12 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 13 | They have already said it to the Wilson Committee : we are doing our best to preserve the value of the funds entrusted to us , and any attempt to force us to invest in projects offering sub-optimal returns for ‘ social ’ reasons is an attempt to make us break faith with our customers . |
| 14 | After the events of 1968 it was renamed ‘ The Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters ' ’ which was an attempt to make us restrict our goals . |
| 15 | But this is not a work of criticism , nor an attempt to make you like The Faerie Queene or the Confessio Amantis . |
| 16 | But the colonies were run on a shoe-string and generated explosive tensions ; both officers and men loathed the system , and the attempt to make it pay by imposing the most detailed and humiliating regulations sparked off repeated risings . |
| 17 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 18 | But , in an attempt to make it look as if democracy were alive , Iran 's clergy were urged to form political parties . |
| 19 | No , I would n't say I did , and I would n't say that 's what I was looking for , particularly , because again I mean it 's a much abused notion that perhaps that class disappears in postwar Britain , I think that 's a political issue that was an attempt to make it look as if class was disappearing , class differences rather , but I think there is a lot of evening out , there 's not the stark differences of the quality of life of furnishings that you would have found say in homes before the war . |
| 20 | Although he had the pride and the carriage to make it look easy , he was often terrified . |
| 21 | At Hilton International , it 's our intention to make you feel welcome and at home each and every time you 're our guest . |
| 22 | John wound up the toy car to make it go . |
| 23 | In the questions task , both age groups showed a strong preference for expressing intentional explanations by means of the infinitive construction ( e.g. , John wound up the toy car to make it go ) . |
| 24 | The great public buildings were stuccoed with gypsum to make them dazzle in the bright sea-light . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's running a cartel to make you carry on with your particular activity and then take his 40 per cent — it 's wickedness . ’ |
| 26 | Once the opponent has landed fully , the hook will require a lot of force to make it work , and a foot sweep may then be the more appropriate technique to apply . |
| 27 | I pray for a wood-spirit to make me dance , |
| 28 | ‘ So long as your prick is n't made of wood as well as ! ’ she had said with a laugh to make him feel easy . |
| 29 | No , there 's nothing like a good laugh to make you feel better about yourself . |
| 30 | At least Ferdinando now knew a great deal of English , whatever she had said to Pen to make him feel important . |