Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best he could hope for was to give his thoughts free rein , to recapture phrases , images , notions , and play with them , allowing them to make patterns in his mind . |
| 2 | ( There are young people , functionally illiterate , whose involvement in educational pursuits has been greatly stimulated by allowing them to make slide-sequences or videotapes ; the acquisition of reading skills sometimes comes after the motivation has been established by other communication experiences . ) |
| 3 | For example , drama contributes to personal growth , by enabling pupils to express their emotions and by helping them to make sense of the world , and to prepare for adult life through such activities as the simulation of meetings . |
| 4 | In my experience this is one of the quickest and most effective ways of drawing children into the drama ; you are helping them to make sense of what they 're doing , you 're showing them clearly that what they 're doing matters . |
| 5 | WWF proposes that environmental protection and the eradication of poverty should be made explicit objectives of the MTO , and that non-governmental organisations should be given consultation rights , enabling them to make submissions to investigations of trade disputes . |
| 6 | So generalisation is important as a way of pulling you out of just describing the details of your individual experience as a reader , enabling you to make statements which are likely to be of interest to others about patterns or structures in the way literary texts work . |
| 7 | Balor did not grudge offering guests a mite of good wine , because it was only polite , but there was no denying it made inroads on your hoard . |
| 8 | Would it be enough , for example , that a person published material to a handful of his neighbours urging them to make life difficult for a black person who has recently moved into the neighbourhood ? |
| 9 | Seeing the way the debate was going , the health spokesmen of the Labour Party , Michael Meacher , and of the SDP , Mike Thomas , who had previously been urging me to make economies in the drugs bill , jumped overboard and joined the critics . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't imagine not wanting you to make love to me , but I understand what you 're saying . ’ |
| 11 | I went through such hell … imagining you together … imagining you making love to her … ’ |
| 12 | Any account of the day-today sociability of men in Huaiwiri in the 1970s must pay attention to women : the relations among women were important in forming men 's opinions , in leading them to make decisions . |
| 13 | On the other hand Ponce was strengthened in his intransigence by a papal letter forbidding him to make concessions on the immunity . |
| 14 | Any party requiring general discovery may give notice in writing to any other party requiring him to make discovery by list of the documents , relating to any question in the proceedings , which may be or have been in his possession or power . |
| 15 | I think it should only take a few minutes to have you begging me to make love to you … ’ |
| 16 | Even if she had been asking me to make love to her — which she was n't — the answer would very definitely have been no . |
| 17 | They all be coming up to me saying you making mince pies again this year Dot . |
| 18 | If letting him make love to her was the price for keeping him with her all night she would pay it gladly . |
| 19 | For a while she even forgot why she was letting him make love to her in her surprise at the pleasure of it . |
| 20 | As his palm cupped their heaviness , almost possessively , squeezing , caressing , make her blood leap , Lisa was suddenly overcome by a longing so intense that she had to restrain herself from falling on her knees and begging him to make love to her right there on the beach . |
| 21 | In June of 1684 Sir John Lowther of Stockbridge wrote to Sir Daniel asking him to make enquiry if there were any men still living in the area who might have worked the copper mines at Caldbeck Keswick or elsewhere in Cumberland . |
| 22 | King Gotrek sent a blunt reply to Caledor saying he made pleas to neither Elf nor god and demanded twice the recompense originally asked because of the implied insult . |
| 23 | Seeing him made Sarah think with anguish of their child . |
| 24 | " Now , do n't be silly , Kate , " Mrs Blakey said firmly when Kate was helping her to make lemon meringue pie . |
| 25 | The regulations then stipulate that before a report is submitted to the Secretary of State the inspector conducting the investigation shall inform everyone whose reputation is , in the inspector 's opinion , likely to be adversely affected by the report , inviting them to make representations , i.e. to argue any point or signify any disagreement with his conclusions . |
| 26 | Better than breathing down my poor husband 's neck , willing him to make tricks , do n't you think ? " |
| 27 | She might just as well have stuck a neon sign on her head , inviting him to make love to her . |
| 28 | ‘ Now is n't that sweet — and just like you , ’ her mother replied , without knowing it making Fabia cringe with shame that she too was being served some of the deception she was practising . |
| 29 | Patricof plans to invest further sums in Neill allowing it to make acquisitions on the Continent . |
| 30 | Already in Predynastic times they were using it to make beads , and throughout the Dynastic period it was employed together with lapis lazuli , carnelian and coloured glass to infill cloisonné work on jewellery , notably on the breast ornaments worn by Tutankhamun ( Plate I ) . |