Example sentences of "and make " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the thoughts and experience of the world had etched and moulded there , in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form , the animalism of Greece , the lust of Rome , the mysticism of the Middle Ages with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves , the return of the Pagan world , the sins of the Borgias . |
| 2 | Isabella perceives clearly the game Angelo is playing : here she is angry and frustrated — do n't try and make her too ‘ nice ’ a character . |
| 3 | Agents do n't want deadwood and if they are interested in you it is because they feel they can sell you into the market , so that you can go on and make money both for yourself and them . |
| 4 | It will be up to you to write constantly and make contacts everywhere and you will largely be responsible for yourself . |
| 5 | This is quite unreasonable as the pilot should always be in a position to recover and make a normal landing . |
| 6 | Try putting yourself at five or six hundred feet directly over the landing area of your gliding site and see for yourself how difficult it is to plan and make a spot landing . |
| 7 | For anyone who wants to understand the meaning of [ such a ] discourse , there is no other solution but to practise it oneself , to become one 's own informant … and to try and make explicit what one finds unstatable in oneself . |
| 8 | Hemmed in by bicks and shoulders , besieged by people wanting to shake his hand , put questions , or merely to remind him of past meetings , Cameron was struggling to respond and make each person feel attended to . |
| 9 | Differential expansion with increasing temperature causes the compound rod to bend and make or break electrical contact . |
| 10 | Mr Raggett says he is interested in finding industrial partners and financial backing to set up companies to sell and make products under licence in the UK . |
| 11 | ‘ But we will all go and make the best of a bad situation . |
| 12 | The trick here is to know what you want to say and make sure that you say it . |
| 13 | Then , when I got fed up with that , I 'd go downstairs and make a racket on the old upright piano my nan had lent us . |
| 14 | He 'd come back and make another excuse to keep me hanging around . |
| 15 | So Malcolm went down Club Row market and bought us a cat and the most ridiculously horrible food — tins of sardines and those disgusting tinned plum tomatoes they used to try and make you eat at school . |
| 16 | Out of the many false starts her life had made she felt they were witnessing this pure beginning that she would seize and make true . |
| 17 | It was as if by drinking from the cold spring they were hoping to appease some spirit of the place so that it would n't turn unfriendly to their studies ; but they could not settle as they tried to read and make notes . |
| 18 | The Paseo simply is n't as refined as it should be , although some elements of the equation , such as the smooth , light manual shift and positive clutch , are as good as you 'll find anywhere and make it a doddle to drive . |
| 19 | Since I had raised the issue , I was to go and make it — which did n't please Berthon . |
| 20 | Normally I 'd get up and make me and Marie a cup of coffee , but there ai n't no point now , so I stay in bed . |
| 21 | Because it obliges you to sit down and make a careful observation of the chosen subject , you discover so much more than by just pointing a camera . |
| 22 | The whole lot was to come down and make way for a million square feet of office space , and the company developing the site had held a competition to find a master-planner . |
| 23 | The more what we might call trendy or eccentric or showy technique has tended to become in the last few years , the more I have felt I wanted to try and make films with as much simplicity and as much directness as possible . |
| 24 | The Jockey Club will be taking steps next season to try and make quality jump racing more competitive . |
| 25 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 26 | So water for me represents the ordinariness of life which Jesus can take and make very special . |
| 27 | Indeed , in this country we have a conciliation service , known by its initials as ACAS , which is a forum whereby representatives can get together and make demands , counter demands and eventually — and hopefully — reach solutions . |
| 28 | Oh dear , he thought , she 's going to cry and make me look a bastard in front of all the doctors and nurses . |
| 29 | So she kept her eyes closed , humming a little tune to try and make Florence let her milk down faster and barely listening to the sound of voices out in the yard . |
| 30 | So please let's find somewhere we can sit down and make a plan . ’ |