Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a teacher for all of three months tried to make me write with my right hand . |
| 2 | He reached for the lamp a second time , feeling the bed shake as the harridan prepared to make her escape . |
| 3 | Mandeville and Santerre had arrived at Templecombe wanting to make everyone dance to their tune . |
| 4 | So all of these considerations operate to make us take our lunchtimes fairly carefully . |
| 5 | Yet their forced complexity came to make them seem unconvincing when compared with the eventual attractions of the heliocentric system . |
| 6 | ‘ IBM needs to make something happen with OS/2 2.1 , or it 's facing the possibility of being a niche product for a very long time . ’ |
| 7 | The number of images per second needed to make them merge is called the flicker fusion frequency . |
| 8 | The only modification needed to make them operate efficiently in air is some means of keeping their surface clean and smooth , so the amphibians developed the capacity to blink and a membrane that they can draw across the front of the eyeball . |
| 9 | If the Western part of these alliances in the financial sector wish to make them work , they will have to put as much effort into learning as the Japanese will . |
| 10 | Again , like teachers , there are one or two honest coppers , but in general they nick you for things you have not done or give you a sound slapping to make you remember them . |
| 11 | Readers interested in doing experiments involving ultrasonics can buy the basic matching transmitters and receivers quite cheaply but they will need to look up or develop the circuits needed to make them work . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , I know you wo n't believe me when I tell you that he doctored that fuel blend to make me look a fool , but one of the boys back in London knows ; he 's going to have my work independently checked before Jason gets home ! ’ |
| 13 | Love , pride , and foolishness combined to make him keep on wearing the green coat , however . |
| 14 | A steel frame , bolted together , which can be finished in a matter of months , before the Armenian winter sets in with temperatures of 40 degrees below freezing , it 's the brainchild of a school consultancy from Gloucester , but it 's taken agreement between Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher at today 's Downing Street talks to make it happen . |
| 15 | Bill and Rita had always wanted a Victorian house — they used to live in a 1930s semi and spent four years trying to make it look Victorian . |
| 16 | When was the last time a fellow-Earther let you rest your head on their heart , caressed your cheek , and said things designed to make you feel deeply okay ? |
| 17 | This time the losers , including the cities of New York , Los Angeles , Chicago and Houston , and the US Conference of Mayors , have taken the bureau to court to try to make it agree to change its initial 1990 findings and to add in its estimated under-count . |
| 18 | Many viewers thought she 'd used the famous Lawley charm to make him relax and talk about his childhood and family . |
| 19 | Finally , Mrs Frizzell rose to make her report . |
| 20 | I am not saying this is universal , of course , but I think the pressure from the City on industry to maximise profits tends to make them take short cuts . |
| 21 | Insistence on this in the early stages of use helps to make it become simply a good habit . |
| 22 | In a letter to a newspaper one man commented that he was taking his six-year-old daughter to her school sports day when she asked , ‘ Daddy , can I have some of the drugs that Ben Johnson took to make me run fast ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 24 | Came the day , and the film unit — a ponderous line of vehicles , carrying half a ton of exceedingly expensive equipment and all the people required to make it work efficiently — rumbled out of the centre of Leeds . |
| 25 | Politically , it was the master idea of the nineteenth century , drawing on the need of men to feel linked to other men at a time when market society tended to make them feel isolated beings . |
| 26 | Modern working farm with displays and exhibitions designed to make you listen , feel and smell at every opportunity ! |
| 27 | What had Lavinia , Lady Merchiston done to make him speak so ? |
| 28 | ‘ Not until you 've told me what the hell happened to make you trigger shy . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah , he was in agony there , so any way carry him to the toilet , sat him on the toilet and sort of sat there with him a bit trying to make him go a wee , cos I thought perhaps he full bladder and could n't |
| 30 | OK , maybe it seems harsh , but I do n't think I 'm the only one who gets slightly bugged by dropouts trying to make me feel like I 'm insensitive and uncaring if I do n't pay for their drink . |