Example sentences of "[coord] make [indef pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sole exception to this seems to be in the case of co-ordination of whole clauses , where the co-ordination would be a matter of like treatment in respect of assertoric or imperative or interrogative force ( so that co-ordinations of , say , a command and a statement , if they ever occur , sound odd , or make one feel that the speaker has switched constructions in the middle of a sentence ) . |
| 2 | With over 6,5OO voluntary reresentatives across Britain , any eligible person need only look in their local telephone directory or ask at the Citizens Advice Bureau for the nearest SSAFA office and write one letter or make one call . |
| 3 | Design involves doing something or making something happen . |
| 4 | Knackering though it is , the sessions are also very enjoyable and make everybody work for each other . |
| 5 | He was a man , she discovered again , who was extremely good company , who could talk on any given subject and make one want to hear more , and whom it was a pleasure to be with . |
| 6 | The new titles limit the poems to the field of moral tracts , and make one wonder exactly what Wordsworth thought his poems were about . |
| 7 | They do convince you there is life after work , and make one look forward to staying with JS as a veteran . |
| 8 | Then I 'd disappear for days and make everyone go crazy with worry while I whooped it up down the nearest alley with some ear-tom tom . |
| 9 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 10 | That we should cut off the electricity and make everyone live in the dark ? |
| 11 | Jokes and laughter can be a wonderful way of bringing people together but Gowie 's so-called jokes are the sort that cause only anger and unhappiness and make everyone despise him . |
| 12 | Sharpe felt the anger then ; the cold anger that seemed to slow the passage of time itself and make everything appear so very distinctly . |
| 13 | She had taken up the idea , she supposed , and made everything bend to it . |
| 14 | She swung her heavily stuffed silver-mesh purse on its long chain and made something like a little skipping step towards the door Nicandra thought she had never looked prettier . |
| 15 | He can break up the rhythm with the deceptive powers of a confidence trickster and made something happen from seemingly stagnant positions . |
| 16 | Even as an interim measure , the ghettos , one felt , were a failure , and made one suspect , briefly yet sickeningly , that the whole enterprise , the whole dream had been fatally grandiose : too many , too many . |
| 17 | Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads . |
| 18 | His first major title — the Strachan Professional — received little publicity , but his 38-minute four-frame coup de grace on Parrott to wrap up a 9–3 win took him to fifth in the rankings and made anything seem possible . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell me , my lady — is it mere courtesy that makes the bells ring , that makes moonlight of a sudden more desirable than sunlight and makes one yearn for this Twelfth Night to be of the past ? |
| 20 | A celebration of the Queen 's passion for the Turf , gun dogs and racing pigeons — one imagines in that order — comes as a welcome relief and makes one hope fervently that she will one day lead in a Derby winner . |
| 21 | No doubt this was the real point of the missive , but it is rather vaguely expressed and makes one wonder whether the author really had much idea what had happened . |
| 22 | Charles could feel his resolve slackening , but made one last effort . |
| 23 | ‘ I doubt if you 'll have heard of a Romany having a magistrate removed from office either , Mr Peck , but make one arrest here and you 're very likely to be the first . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The film is pretty short , but makes everything count and , while proving extremely entertaining , never lets go of its main point , which is to illuminate , with some sympathy , the underbelly of Scandinavian and particularly Finnish life . ’ |