Example sentences of "make sure " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the pilot will be in very good flying form and his instructor will have made sure that he has not been getting into bad habits . |
| 2 | They had made sure of the few proprietors between there and Dunkeld ; the Duke of Atholl 's authority was weaker here ; tomorrow would be the hard day when they made a drive up to Moulin and Faskally : perhaps they should go and terrify them now while darkness made them lonely ? |
| 3 | So far , only San Francisco , Denver and the New York Giants have made sure of play-off slots . |
| 4 | However , the powerful US tuna industry lobby has made sure that it has been given an annual ‘ dolphin kill' ’ quota . |
| 5 | Part of him was coldly aware of the bulge in Doyle 's pocket — the gun which had made sure he would not scream and beg for help . |
| 6 | She would be taken care of ; he 'd made sure of that . |
| 7 | When Harold Wilson put in Lord Hill of Luton to act as chairman of the BBC ( a Conservative who , as head of the Independent Television Authority had ‘ made sure that their treatment of news and current affairs does not offend the Establishment ’ , in the view of Richard Crossman ) , he remarked , ‘ Charlie Hill has already cleaned up ITV and he 'll do the same to the BBC now I 'm appointing him chairman . ’ |
| 8 | A month later Kylie also made sure that Dennis and Joan were in the audience when she appeared before the Queen Mother at the Royal Variety Performance . |
| 9 | Chéron also made sure that his string of artists produced . |
| 10 | He was not using Fairbrother 's soap , Richard was sure of that , even though his mother had made sure that he had been supplied with the exact brand most popular at the school . |
| 11 | The castle took most of the honey and wax , but Ruari and Mairi naturally made sure they kept a fair bit to barter with their crofting neighbours for oats . |
| 12 | Mary 's self-seeking dandy courtiers soon made sure she signed it . |
| 13 | The kept receipts and always made sure the books balanced . |
| 14 | The old , the poor , the sick , the homeless and the animals certainly do n't deserve another five years of Tory rule , but the I 'm all right Jacks have made sure they are getting it . |
| 15 | Having made sure from Miss Miggs that she would n't mind if the mistletoe in her apple-tree were sold , especially as it had never occurred to her that she could sell it , three excited Brownies hurried away from Sundial Cottage and did n't pause until they reached Anne 's father 's greengrocery shop . |
| 16 | ‘ I would never set out in life to assassinate anybody , but some people have made sure that the mud will stick to me . ’ |
| 17 | He had made sure of the Jew this time , and the whore . |
| 18 | She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage . |
| 19 | Joe always made sure there were a couple of swings rigged up to the spreaded branches for the children to enjoy . |
| 20 | Christian pilgrims always made sure to take a sample home with them , and then ‘ when anyone falls sick of a quartan or tertian ague or some such fever , they give him a little of this earth to drink . |
| 21 | The city 's chief engineer , Geoffrey Reed , and the gentlemen of the North West Water Authority have made sure of that . |
| 22 | There was no reason for a beleaguered host to be gentle when hauling two spies into their precincts , and in their anger and disappointment and fear , the men who handled the drag-ropes would have made sure , but for Lomellini , that these climbers never climbed again . |
| 23 | She said the Queen and somebody else made sure she knew I was in Famagusta . |
| 24 | She had made sure of that . |
| 25 | Having first made sure that the master volume is well back , Decimax recommend that the ‘ acoustic correction ’ equaliser should be set for flat response while the desired sounds are assembled . |
| 26 | Left : Julie has made sure the kitchen is a safe place for her son , Henry ? |
| 27 | Having made sure that the rear cross-spars are correctly located , the bridle is clear and the stand-off sockets in their right places , push the spar ends well into the leading edge vinyls . |
| 28 | It was Britain which had made sure finance ministers would be at the summit so the recovery talks can go ahead , he said . |
| 29 | It seemed rather typical of her luck that she had ended up with the wrong sort of cat , and she could n't help wondering if Miss Hardbroom had made sure that the misfit kitten had been given to Mildred , rather than someone like Ethel . |
| 30 | All religions have had their solitaries too , but the greatest of these usually made sure that they had a spiritual advisor and some kind of structure . |