Example sentences of "[modal v] make [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems of the informal interview , then , are considerable , and they may make us feel that the formal type of interview is much less beset with difficulties and open to the criticism of lack of scientific method . |
| 2 | erm I mean it really must make them feel like the world 's gone haywire . |
| 3 | when the old boy comes round and see what you 've done with the old horse manure , spread some of that around and that 'll make them grow as well |
| 4 | And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad . |
| 5 | At the end of the day , you want something sunny and cheerful , something that 'll make you smile when you walk in the room . ’ |
| 6 | So what we 'll do , say in a foursome scenario , is we 'll make it look like they 're switching partners , when really they 're not . ’ |
| 7 | We are afraid of the new , of anything that might make us grow or change . ’ |
| 8 | It was frightening how hunger and lack of sleep could make you behave and think like a real bastard . |
| 9 | Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will . |
| 10 | Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care . |
| 11 | The mild drug in the liquid would help calm him — would make him sleep until the shock of his ordeal had passed . |
| 12 | For example , ‘ I forgive you for being so patronising towards me ’ would make them feel that they were having their sins confessed to them . |
| 13 | They fed these children with these tablets that would make them go and the parents were rushing out and buying tablets to make the children intel the children intelligent . |
| 14 | To suggest the hidden but omnipresent power of the TARDIS Brachaki wanted a system of lights behind the roundels that would make them glow and pulse while the ship was in flight . |
| 15 | Debasement of the coinage led Wriothesley to call the Mint ‘ our holy anchor ’ ; its profits were such that he told Paget to keep its operations secret , ‘ for if it should come out that men 's things coming thither be thus employed , it would make them withdraw and so bring a lack ’ . |
| 16 | She would only have to sit still and clever stage lighting would make it appear as though she were naked . |
| 17 | Erm he decided to stage a fire in which it would make it appear as though er this was a result of some sort of erm armed confrontation between law enforcement and his group . |
| 18 | And because you are so much older , you would n't see yourself as competing for the same resources , and you would probably have matured in ways emotionally , that would make you accept and identify with the parental values , rather than , than feel sad or , or resentful , because you felt you were more like your brother , as it were , and you were being discriminated against . |
| 19 | Reuben Haredale 's steward , who murders his master for money , and also the latter 's gardener in circumstances that shall make it seem that the body , when discovered , is that of Rudge himself . |
| 20 | It is the only thing that will stir out sleeping brethren , the only thing that will make them fight and not cooperate . |
| 21 | The Lord will make us prosper and our land will produce rich harvests . |
| 22 | While you can lose half your liver , one and a half kidneys and most of your toes before you get a noticeable drop in performance , a mere 20% fall in resting cardiac output will make you feel as though you are climbing Everest without oxygen . |
| 23 | Not only can it help control your weight and prevent heart disease , it will make you look and feel better . |
| 24 | Not only can it help control your weight and prevent heart disease , it will make you look and feel better . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , nothing ever changes unless a conscious effort is made to change it and no organization will make it happen unless its people at all levels are switched on . |
| 26 | All these players can make me flinch and squirm ; but it 's nothing compared to the complicated torment meted out by the Barometer . |
| 27 | ‘ If you can make me understand that , I stand a better chance of helping to get you the money to find it , ’ Waldegrave said . |
| 28 | This is an important area in which you can help him a great deal if you can make him feel that with you open grieving is permissible . |
| 29 | Quite rightly , professionals are struggling to understand the pressures of caring , and their sympathy for carers can make them ignore or misread signs of abuse , or even to interpret abuse as a response to the difficulties some elderly people present . |
| 30 | Unpleasant reactions during a " bad trip " can make you panic and act irrationally . |