Example sentences of "[vb infin] to make [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there 's plenty of things you can do to make them drop back . |
| 2 | She knew there was nothing she could do to make him go away ; and she smelt him , and the acrid want in him . |
| 3 | And there 's nothing I can do to make him say otherwise . ’ |
| 4 | But there is nothing you can do to make it grow longer than it is programmed to do by your body chemistry . |
| 5 | And apart from the garden that you said that you made it lovely while you were there , what other things did you do to make it look like a home ? |
| 6 | What can we do to make it look like we care about the unemployed ? |
| 7 | What can we do to make it look like we actually care about training ? |
| 8 | What can we do to make it look like we care about the unemployed ? |
| 9 | What can we do to make it look like we actually care about training ? |
| 10 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 11 | We transfer ‘ I do n't deserve it ’ on to ‘ They do n't deserve it ’ , and may try to make them feel guilty . |
| 12 | I did n't try to make them fall for me , because at that time I was n't in the mood for that sort of thing . ’ |
| 13 | When a horse is shy of any object , and reluctant to approach it , the rider must try to make him feel that there is nothing terrible in it , especially to a horse of spirit ; but if he can not succeed , the rider must himself touch that which appears so alarming , and lead the horse up gently to it . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd probably try to make him laugh — that generally helps to defuse an awkward situation . ’ |
| 15 | Clever western diplomacy could try to make him appear less heroic , by keeping the linkage vague , but then — unless he has belatedly realised the hopelessness of his position — he would see no benefit in it . |
| 16 | If I could only see , I 'd try to make you love me again , but … ’ and he sighed deeply . |
| 17 | Neddy Fawcett , who was farming at West Birk Hatt in the days before it was flooded when the new reservoir opened , was very good with mechanical things and used to come over and try to make it start . |
| 18 | He 'll try to make it seem as if the change — the strengthening of their position — comes from within the Ping Tiao . ’ |
| 19 | That is a valid view , but we believe that the internal market is likely to exist for the foreseeable future and that we should try to make it work as well as possible . |
| 20 | You did n't have to make them work , they had a desire to study , ’ says Mildenhall . |
| 21 | is n't , so erm we 'll have to make him come wo n't we ? |
| 22 | ‘ Then you 'll have to make him see sense if I ca n't , Alice . |
| 23 | Obviously , they had made up their minds that they would have to make us eat rather than tell their bosses what had happened . |
| 24 | But he we 'll have to live apart , we 'll have to make us try and make our marriage work by living apart . |
| 25 | But from there you will have to make you own arrangements via the local Cape Verde Airline offices . |
| 26 | Yeah , the trouble with that , I 'll have to make you wait till four thirty , is that too long ? |
| 27 | If you 're going to make it go out that way then you 'll have to make it go out that way at the bottom otherwise it wo n't fit when you try to put the other wall up . |
| 28 | Only we 'll have to make it look as if I am . |
| 29 | She stiffened in his arms , saw the turmoil in his eyes and panicked as she sensed how little it would take to make her surrender . |
| 30 | The people at the table looked like beleaguered tourists in the kind of restaurants where people come and play violins in your ear , that is to say , horribly embarrassed and as if they were wondering how much it would take to make them go away . |