Example sentences of "[pn reflx] to make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How is it that one of Britain 's key black thinkers , Stuart Hall , invokes style as an explanation of Kinnock 's failure , even lowering himself to make anti-Welsh remarks ? |
| 2 | However , his relations with his tenants were never happy , because while Lowther believed his town and harbour should be developed largely at the expense of the inhabitants , with modest financial encouragement from himself , he could never bring himself to make those concessions of self-government which might have persuaded his tenants to co-operate . |
| 3 | On the opening page of Amis 's first novel , Jim mentally decides on his own word when his professor uses another , deferentially pretending as an untenured lecturer to look amused at a weak professorial joke , and he promises himself to make another sort of face to himself when next alone . |
| 4 | The panic receded as she forced herself to make practical plans . |
| 5 | You have to force yourself to make adequate eye contact with the audience and to stand still . |
| 6 | I am topographically accurate , I know the area so well that I simply could n't allow myself to make topographical mistakes . ’ |
| 7 | Indeed one 's own reason for looking to this community was presumably that , as a Christian , one needed oneself to make some reference to Christ . |