Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to make the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part-time firefighters carry a paging unit which alerts them to make the dash to the fire station when a 999 call is made . |
| 2 | The chosen redesigners were Information Design unit of Newport Pagnell , UK ; and we asked them to make The Lancet easier to read by attention to the typography , layout , and production techniques . |
| 3 | We want them to make the choices we would have made . |
| 4 | ‘ And we will be offering incentives to encourage them to make the change . ’ |
| 5 | Will representations to other Governments be as strong as possible to encourage them to make the sort of contributions to the know-how fund and to know-how activity that is absolutely crucial for the developing economies in central and eastern Europe , and without which they will never develop democratic politics as well ? |
| 6 | He helped her to make the house ready for the next occupant , and though she protested he gave her the money for her railway journey back to London . |
| 7 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 8 | ( c ) Can you re-phrase them to make the points clear ? |
| 9 | Such a specification allows us to make the point about stabilization policy mentioned above , and to point out an error in Barro 's influential paper that was originally uncovered by Marini ( 1985 ) . |
| 10 | Her love for him was intense and her sense of loss was as great when he was tragically killed in a crash on the way to visit her in New York a matter of months after winning the world middleweight title ; Piaf had persuaded him to make the trip . |
| 11 | If Mr Moynihan is keen to hang on to his job he should get on to FIFA now and tell them to make the booking . |
| 12 | the teacher acts as a conscience I I explained to them I 'm not expecting them to make the child do the work , but to be their conscience so they can say look you 've got three assessments coming in that week if you leave it till Friday night you 're up the creak without a paddle ! |
| 13 | One may imagine that bishops would rush to ordain him to make the point . |
| 14 | Craftsmen painstakingly cut the warp , one rib at a time , with long , knives ; then they brushed it to make the pile stand up . |
| 15 | ‘ Ward councillors have received a number of complaints and we will be contacting the Association , asking them to make the builders behave in a responsible manner . ’ |
| 16 | Besides , by asking me to make the decisions , you have implied that there 's nothing you can do here that my crew and I ca n't . |
| 17 | They did not want him to make the comparison himself . |
| 18 | What led her to make the break ? |
| 19 | The observations that led him to make the distinction are deceptively simple . |
| 20 | Here you will need to reduce the airbrake to continue the float and then , as you get to the better ground , to re-open them to make the landing . |
| 21 | When they arrive give them the name of an animal and ask them to make the noise the animal makes to find similar animals . |
| 22 | This enabled them to make the choice to preserve order by containment or prevention of picketing . |
| 23 | She pocketed them to make the break-in look authentic . |
| 24 | What persuaded you to make the arrangement more permanent ? |
| 25 | I therefore ask you to make the institution of the ‘ World Day of the Sick ’ known to those responsible for the health care apostolate so that , in accordance with local circumstances , its due observance may be provided for with the participation of the entire People of God : priests , religious and lay faithful . |
| 26 | An interim payment can only be ordered against a person who is insured in respect of the plaintiff 's claim , a public authority , or a person whose means enable him to make the payment . |
| 27 | In the end there could only be one option for de Gaulle , but the time it took him to make the decision indicated how difficult it was . |
| 28 | I tried to look as if this was perfectly normal , as if I 'd asked him to make the entry for me . |
| 29 | In desperation , she managed to get the head of a psychiatric hospital near Plymouth to travel to Four Winds , when it became clear that Liza 's agoraphobia was too severe to allow her to make the journey to him . |
| 30 | Fennel can be bought as tea bags and one of these can be used instead of half a teaspoon and the bag left hanging in the tank for one day after using it to make the remedy . |