Example sentences of "[vb past] to 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some supporters were on their way home , when John Durnin ran through and scored to make it 5-3 . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | Indeed , Grimshaw strove to make it low-tech . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I only meant to make it welcoming and nice . |
| 19 | Hepburn converted to make it 7–0 . |
| 20 | I had to make it all myself . |
| 21 | He knew that the office staff might open it and read it so he had to make it impersonal . |
| 22 | We also had to make it plain that the present was for Mr Eliot , though we knew perfectly well that he would share it with John Hayward . |
| 23 | He had to make it clear that he had learnt his lesson on tariff reform , and to do this in a way as compatible as possible with the dignity of an ex-Prime Minister . |
| 24 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 25 | The EEC declared that the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act ( which incorporated the 1970 Equal Pay Act ) did not come up to its standards , and that the British government had to make it stronger . |
| 26 | And Gloucester MP Douglas French wants the law tightened to make it harder for magistrates to ignore police advice in serious cases . |
| 27 | ‘ He wished to make it clear for the purposes of this case that there had been a genuine company in Bombay called Rasiklal & Sons , ’ Dutta told Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 28 | I went on to say to him that I wished to make it clear that my disquiet did not relate to any particular name , but if in fact the names that I had heard turned out to be a correct report , and he published the List , the List would support legitimate criticism . |
| 29 | This gives a sort of impression that it wished to make it easier . |
| 30 | So there was no question but that section 2 of the 1911 Act applied to make it unlawful for any person to communicate information without authorization . |