Example sentences of "to make [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to try to make ourselves more efficient and to accept change , but there are certain things we should hang on to . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ We would be looking to make ourselves viable in-house before going down that road , and we are well able to do it . ’ |
| 3 | Let us ensure that we do not try to make ourselves look better than we really are by humiliating others . |
| 4 | We have to feel no one else is as good as us and we usually put others down to make ourselves seem on top , even if we try to make positive comments such as ‘ Your garden is looking nice . |
| 5 | The second is the fact that we tend to make ourselves miserable by exploring the limits to which we can resist the temptation to go all the way . |
| 6 | Certainly what we talk about and our ability to make ourselves understood is hampered or helped by the language we have at our disposal . |
| 7 | Express ourselves and to make ourselves understood by others . |
| 8 | We laugh and smile to make ourselves popular . |
| 9 | We have to make ourselves newly aware , for each text , of the artistic effect of the whole , and the way linguistic details lit into this whole . |
| 10 | We simply have to make ourselves more visible — and get as many leaves on the Tree of Life as we can . |
| 11 | Also it can be very cold at night , and we were forced to make ourselves strong and comfortable huts in which to live . |
| 12 | " We want to be able to make ourselves heard , " he said . |
| 13 | I referred earlier to the effort that we made during 1992 to make ourselves both more efficient and more profitable . |
| 14 | Then my mother and I went out to make ourselves feel better and spent lots of money . |
| 15 | Already some teachers have thought and acted upon ingenious schemes to increase membership and to make ourselves more financially self-supporting . |
| 16 | Milner-White was then a charming young man of rather Anglo-Catholic opinions who was beginning to make himself an expert both on stained glass and on ways of English worship and prayer . |
| 17 | Lewis does not set out to make himself cleverer than the reader , stili less cleverer than the authors whom he is discussing . |
| 18 | Throughout his career there have been calls on Prince by both the US and UK critical establishment to be a better role model , to make himself accountable to some kind of community , to address himself explicitly to the problems of the day . |
| 19 | Ten minutes later he had calmed down sufficiently to make himself a cup of coffee and write himself a note to check Angela Morgan 's financial status . |
| 20 | He was just trying to make himself sound big . |
| 21 | He had an electric kettle , some lemons , a pot of honey and a bottle of whisky beside the bed , to make himself soothing drinks . |
| 22 | He was using his ‘ goon 's ’ voice , the one he put on when he wanted to make himself sound like a harmless imbecile . |
| 23 | The priest avoids contact with sexuality and women in order to make himself holy and fit for handling the sacred . |
| 24 | Pithy and allusive interjections worked well in a shaikh 's guestroom , but less well when a speaker had to queue for his turn at a microphone to make himself heard . |
| 25 | From the start he struggled to make himself heard above jeers and cheers . |
| 26 | But Springer managed to make himself heard , shouting into the microphone as he attacked Mr Reagan . |
| 27 | He therefore travelled through the greater part of England , observing everything , but was equally careful to inspect all ornamental and kitchen gardens , and to make himself at home and acquainted with all horticulturalists , for he was of the opinion that he could learn something useful which he did not know before at least from some of them . |
| 28 | He had to shout to make himself heard : ‘ Mariana , look … ’ |
| 29 | Gabriel , meanwhile , received his draft papers and begins to take large quantities of drugs to make himself medically unfit , until he verges on insanity . |
| 30 | So it is hardly surprising that John Cranko , already a ballet pupil , although of very limited experience , was able to make himself useful when the two Cape Town companies had seasons in Johannesburg towards the end of 1943 . |