Example sentences of "to make us " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perfectly true that there is nothing conclusively in the poem to make us identify the first stair with Dante 's Inferno , the second with his Purgatorio , the third with Paradiso ; as there is not ( a more piercing uncertainty ) anything to determine for us whether ‘ the broadbacked figure drest in blue and green ’ , with his ‘ music of the flute ’ , is an image of what must be renounced in order to achieve Paradise , or else an image of how terrestrial life can most nearly attain the paradisal . |
| 2 | But we do need to remember the great cost of exercising our right to have double standards and also to ask ourselves whether expenditure to make us extremely safe from one form of risk may not sometimes make us more vulnerable to others . |
| 3 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
| 4 | Lies are essential in life , says Professor Loyal Rue — not only do we lie to others , we tell ourselves fibs to make us feel better . |
| 5 | We was drinking beer so , of course , Charlie has to make us all feel small by paying for whiskies all round . |
| 6 | There is enough recorded in Warnie 's diaries over the next twenty years of friction and domestic misery to make us see why Jack had misgivings about the advisability of their all attempting to live together . |
| 7 | The excitement of The Place of the Lion is in its power to shake the reader up — to make us feel that the world is not the place we thought it was . |
| 8 | There are , however , clear attempts to make us giggle , like when the Swamp Thing ( Dick Durock ) conceives a passion for Heather Locklear 's leading lady but tells her that he ca n't give her the love she wants because he 's a plant . |
| 9 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |
| 10 | ‘ The Comforter ’ , once remarked Cardinal Suenens , ‘ is given , not to make us comfortable , but to make us disciples . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The Comforter ’ , once remarked Cardinal Suenens , ‘ is given , not to make us comfortable , but to make us disciples . ’ |
| 12 | But he uses all his very considerable art to make us feel Isaac 's and Esau 's pain . |
| 13 | After the events of 1968 it was renamed ‘ The Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters ' ’ which was an attempt to make us restrict our goals . |
| 14 | We British do indeed believe we should all be equal under the law , but in practice we reject social engineering which tries to make us equal in other respects . |
| 15 | Ouch , that really hurt — but not enough to make us regret a word . |
| 16 | The work of other researchers has in many different ways helped to shape our work , to influence what we have asked and to make us more sensitive to what we have heard . |
| 17 | ‘ He used to make us a rolling pin , a dough board and a rubbing board … |
| 18 | This pattern of results is enough to make us doubtful about the interpretation of latent inhibition offered by Lubow et al . |
| 19 | This is enough in itself to make us want to reject conditioned attention theory as it is presently formulated . |
| 20 | But this difficulty is not enough to make us abandon the theory . |
| 21 | This single observation is not enough in itself to make us accept the assertions of differentiation theory — there are , it turns out , a number of possible interpretations . |
| 22 | But it is certainly enough to make us want to persist with our exploration of this theory and to examine in some detail ( in Chapter 7 ) the various possible explanations for the effect . |
| 23 | He was n't as badly hurt as he looked , actually , but it was enough to make us all think at least twice . |
| 24 | Do these really mar our understanding of informative articles , aiming to make us wiser on equestrian subjects ? |
| 25 | We have even constructed elaborate theories to make us feel better about the lives older people lead . |
| 26 | Fast and clever , Roy was a typical inside man of his day , but he was better than most and had a successful career with Palace , providing the ideal foil to the mercurial Johnny Byrne and helping to make us a respected side in Division 3 before leaving for Portsmouth in the summer of 1963 . |
| 27 | Two further 767s will be assigned to the US run and named ‘ James Dean ’ and ‘ Janis Joplin ’ to make US customers feel at home . |
| 28 | Masturbation , for instance , does nothing for our partner and tends to make us independent of our partner . |
| 29 | Of course , record companies are always going to want you to have a hit , but as far as what we do , they just have to look at our albums and try to pick out something they can exploit that way , after the event , as compared to trying to make us sit down and write a hit . |
| 30 | The message we receive is that we are not attractive and will not be provided with props to make us so . |