Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And of course , That 's right yes , make them do the test first and of course , you may very well need some specialists depending again on as we said , whatever your team has got to do .
2 Why Sir , they blind still those they take , And make them tell the stories of their lives , Which known , they do accordingly .
3 I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant .
4 We have to tax those parking spaces , make them use the Park and Drive , but we 've got to get the carrot there first and the carrot is a much better operated Park and Drive .
5 Head of Department : ‘ We already make them purchase a pad plus two HB pencils — total £1·50 for Art for the parents .
6 So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again .
7 The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line .
8 People tend to assume that parents of mentally handicapped children and those who work with them are gifted with abnormal powers of patience and understanding , or suffused with some form of religious or social awareness that make them adopt a sacrificial purpose in life .
9 At best , they have an instinctive feeling for what will please people and make them like the product .
10 The balloonists will need the clothes that make them resemble the Michelin man .
11 All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ .
12 ‘ Okay , blue-eyes , ’ I drawled , even though they were green , ‘ be difficult and make me twist the information from you until you scream for my kisses … ’
13 erm make me explain the difference between irony and sarcasm .
14 Er , make me feel an idiot !
15 They make me want a lot of things that I never had .
16 ‘ If you make me leave the table , Hughie , I shall go straight down into the kitchen .
17 ‘ People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot ’
18 ‘ At the moment , ’ she says , ‘ the people in Liverpool make me laugh a lot . ’
19 People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot
20 Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it .
21 ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’
22 If ever Ari and Bernard had a tiff , Laura would take Ari on one side , explain all Bernard 's good points and the difficulties he had encountered and then ‘ make me write a letter saying how I respected him . ’
23 ‘ All these changes , changes of circumstances and the change of the season , make me fear a change of rhythm and atmosphere .
24 I would agree that a hypnotist could not , for example , make me attack an innocent person .
25 what d' ya reckon the idea of that was ?
26 D' ya mean a special kind of mattress be
27 How d' ya move a country ?
28 How d' ya move a country ?
29 D' ya want a cup of Dawn ?
30 D' ya want a
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