Example sentences of "[noun sg] to make it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Owton Manor Primary School pupil from Hartlepool had his left leg broken and pinned in a bid to make it grow longer . |
| 2 | A pitcher can spin a baseball to make it follow a trajectory in any direction . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But , in an attempt to make it look as if democracy were alive , Iran 's clergy were urged to form political parties . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although he had the pride and the carriage to make it look easy , he was often terrified . |
| 9 | John wound up the toy car to make it go . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You need only contrast it with cricket , a complex game over- burdened by social attitudes and codes , and dependent upon specific items of equipment to make it work , to understand how accessible football must have seemed . |
| 13 | Neighbours beat the dog with a metal bar to make it release its grip . |
| 14 | After her death Jones planned to place the body in the car with the engine running and push the pipe through the window to make it look like suicide . |
| 15 | ‘ It was so wet , ’ Peter says , ‘ that we had to paint the mud green to make it look like grass . |
| 16 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 17 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 18 | If you get through that you 've got to give the balloon a good hard squirt to make it burn , and if you do make it burn it goes up with a hell of a whoomph and you 've still got to get away . ’ |
| 19 | As a chairman , I did n't have to worry about finding a particular part to put in a piece of kit to make it work . |
| 20 | The big glass tells the story of the aridity of art , he wrote , of the lies of art , of the machine without the fuel to make it move . |
| 21 | You have to run a tight business to make it work . |
| 22 | When the promised sprinters were not delivered on time , when the fares increased in proportion to the decline in reliability , when children are stranded because trains have broken down , when Conservative-controlled Suffolk county council subsidises the late night train , and when central Government grant for British Rail goes up , yet the service is still like a lottery , I despaired , I despair , and I will continue to despair until we give individuals , travellers , employees and taxpayers a real incentive to make it work — the freedom to succeed in the private sector . |
| 23 | The rocking-horse stood still as a rock , she tipped its back to make it move . |
| 24 | She pulled the strings of her apron until the bow at the back was just right , and perched her white cap at the correct angle on her head to make it sit pertly on her dark curls . |
| 25 | matchsticks together and then I stuck one half on top of the other to make it look like an extending ladder . |
| 26 | Staff need to co-operate with each other to make it work — but that is what we do best . |
| 27 | I poured out some ouzo and added enough water to make it go milkily opaque . |
| 28 | Frankie had scrubbed his hands and feet and dampened his hair with water to make it lie flat and tidy against his head . |
| 29 | This has been painted in a strong colour to make it look more aggressive . |
| 30 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |