Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I think it was this that made him stop telephoning me .
2 But mothers are wonderful , and it 's something like this that makes you realize it . ’
3 What is it about the British that makes them confuse service with servility
4 WHAT is it about we British that makes us pay millions of pounds to actors who have never heard a shot fired in anger , while we ignore the heroes whose deeds they are paid to portray ?
5 WHAT is it about we British that makes us pay millions of pounds to actors who have never heard a shot fired in anger , while we ignore the heroes whose deeds they are paid to portray ?
6 The tabloid press will publish stories of dole scroungers laying in bed all day , living the life of Riley on the dole , blaming the unemployed and making them feel guilty for a desperate plight .
7 ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu .
8 The room seemed very quin as he closed the volume and selected another and made himself turn its unseen pages for ten more minutes .
9 Unfortunately it is exactly these thoughts and behaviours which make the panic attack worse , make us terrified of having another and make us begin to avoid any and every situation where it could possibly happen again .
10 But , whatever name you choose to give it , something gets into humans one way or another and makes them do things that are very hard to understand .
11 Now Saint Marcus had to put all that lot together to make it look right and make it make sense , with hindsight , bringing all the important pieces together .
12 If your exercise session is fairly strenuous and makes you pant a bit ( and takes at least twenty minutes ) your stamina will also increase .
13 He was terrific and made me realise the only reason I had these thoughts was because of the enormous love I have for you .
14 Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all .
15 the thing is that something must happen to them by the time they reach the age of twenty three that makes us want to marry them .
16 Our technique is to make customers feel relaxed and make them feel they are buying the right car for their needs . ’
17 Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head .
18 Goals will help keep you motivated and make you want to run , and they 'll also help you plan a specific , personalised training programme .
19 I just hope that he believes what he sees , that you do n't become too obvious and make him realize that he 's being set up . ’
20 If that 's what you 're doing in practice , say so , do n't put all these exclusions in the document because that makes me suspicious and makes me think you 're trying to exclude these things .
21 The storyline at the moment is very good , gripping and makes you watch the next episode .
22 That is not to say it is the recommended method , once you have started the latch tool method of working ribs it becomes so fast as to make you wonder why you did n't try it before .
23 That unsettled them all and made them wonder who would be the next to go .
24 The correlations with the various scales give some indication of what types of situation subjects think of as risky , particularly those which require high levels of concentration , feel stressful and make them feel they are not in control .
25 Push the pictured tiles around the playing area , matching like with like and making them disappear — when two similar designs are placed adjacent to each other , they 're destroyed .
26 It had been far easier to keep it tidy , she thought , in the days when she wore it pinned up ; the style she had taken to suited her better and made her look and feel years younger than she was but it was a terrible nuisance .
27 This speech although , shows Brutus to be very sincere and made him gain great admiration from the other conspirators .
28 By 35 , our faces have undergone structural changes , so that the hair-styles which suited us throughout our 20s may suddenly seem severe and make us look older .
29 Accept one and make it last as long as possible .
30 If you do that , then I think that even though your own values are bound to be in it a bit , they wo n't be in it in a way that makes the work useless or makes it appear hopefully prejudiced to someone else .
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