Example sentences of "[vb past] make it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
| 2 | He tried to make it sound fresh and exciting . |
| 3 | It was so simple , however hard Izzie tried to make it sound difficult with all her ‘ don'ts ’ . |
| 4 | She tried to make it sound casual but was aware that her tone had risen slightly . |
| 5 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
| 6 | I did not want anyone to think I was a Yahoo , so I tried to make it clear that my habits were very different from theirs . |
| 7 | I tried to make it clear at an early stage my petition is a simple , straightforward one not involved with wildlife management , history or anything else like that , I simply believe that killing animals for fun is morally wrong . |
| 8 | Many thanks to Miss Cameron , who came every day to take the cash , to Kirsty and Pippa who were a delight to have , and to all who helped to make it such a happy week and so worthwhile for Christian Aid ’ . |
| 9 | She just could n't say then that she 'd made it all up . |
| 10 | She 'd made it worse . |
| 11 | Like as not he would n't even recognize her , and he 'd made it clear she was merely one of a number of girls who accommodated him . |
| 12 | I 'd made it clear that by the time I reached sixteen I wanted out — I could n't get out any sooner because no school in London would have me . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I 'd made it clear . ’ |
| 14 | We thought we 'd made it clear that it was only the MPC ( Multimedia PC ) versions of either card ( that is the SoundBlaster Pro and the Adlib Gold ) gave access to both MID and WAV file playing . |
| 15 | He 'd made it clear enough after all that he did n't expect her to hang about as he had another date . |
| 16 | He 'd made it clear right form the start just how he regarded her — as a brash and brassy nightclub singer , nothing else . |
| 17 | The election result improved the presidential chances of Kim Dae Jung , and seemed to make it certain that he would contest the presidency for a third time , having been defeated in 1971 and 1987 . |
| 18 | In those early days , its isolation on the distant north-west coast seemed to make it unattainable by anyone who had only feet to get him there and whose opportunities were restricted by a busy working life south of the Border , although later I was to discover that a MacBrayne 's bus made the forty-six-mile journey to and from Lairg every weekday . |
| 19 | When I was standing on a cold windy Kop watching us play shite against the likes of Plymouth Argyle , Shez always seemed to make it bearable . |
| 20 | Some supporters were on their way home , when John Durnin ran through and scored to make it 5-3 . |
| 21 | United had four cleared off the line … hit the bar twice but it took a hand ball and a penalty from Jim Magilton to get them back into the game … with ten minutes to go the Manor was celebrating an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp and surely they could see the second division side off … but after extra time it was still two all and now down to penalties … the crunch came when Chrissy Allen 's kick was saved … and Swansea 's Keith Walker scored to make it five four to the second division side on penalties … |
| 22 | The speed at which everything then happened made it all seem rather unreal : |
| 23 | Indeed , Grimshaw strove to make it low-tech . |
| 24 | It seems that most designers of fibreglass pools are not water gardeners , for the shelves are often narrow and curved making it difficult to accommodate a traditional square planting basket . |
| 25 | Maria had loved radio with a passion from early childhood , her faith in its power to survive unimpaired through all the years when television threatened to make it obsolete , and justified now that it was enjoying an upsurge in popularity in so many countries , thriving new stations almost daily news at present . |
| 26 | ‘ Apparently , ’ Conolly continues , ‘ Champagne is to be restored to the position of the rich man 's drink it enjoyed before those wretched own-label chappies started making it available to all ! ’ |
| 27 | I undertook to make it one of the priorities of our presidency of the European Community later this year to carry through an improved trade and co-operation agreement with Russia . |
| 28 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 29 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 30 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |