Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the 27 year-old sculptor specialises In beautifully complex human and animal forms , steeped in classical influences and burnished or weathered to make them look as if they have several lifetimes of history behind them . |
| 2 | Dr Benjamin Spock points out , however , that if an angry mother refrains from spanking she may show her irritation in other ways , for instance , by nagging the child for half the day or trying to make him feel deeply guilty . |
| 3 | In Molly 's own words : ‘ Thinking back to these early classes , I realise that it has always been the enthusiastic response of the class members that has made it seem supremely worth while to go on … |
| 4 | But on the whole there was a simplicity and directness about the way she had written that had pleased him , and occasional bits of unintended humour that had made him laugh , though the way she had written about her family — her grandmother in particular , had made him think her unobservant . |
| 5 | Somehow that had made him talk about things here . |
| 6 | What had Julius seen in the nineteen-year-old girl she had been five years ago that had made him want to grab her and marry her , without even really knowing her ? |
| 7 | So what was it that had made him go , but a furtive , half-acknowledged sense that not to have done so would have been like turning one 's back on the Crucifixion , that here perhaps at last was the litmus which might determine the validity of his readopted faith ? |
| 8 | It was the association of hot springs and helium that had made him think that there could be something to Chatterjee 's idea after all , and maybe to the claims by Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 9 | It was n't entirely his thirst for knowledge that had made him insist on driving north to Chanchán . |
| 10 | Was it just entrepreneur 's hype that had made him say ‘ do n't want to ’ rather than ‘ ca n't ’ ? |
| 11 | Ah well , her parents were old now , and retired , and nobody thought them funny any more : indeed , it was only the intensely conventional world of a Yorkshire boarding-school that had made them seem so eccentric in the first place . |
| 12 | It was not the beauty alone that had made me draw in my breath . |
| 13 | And I suppose it was instinct that had made me hang on to my thermometer ; the delicate tube was still in my hand . |
| 14 | It was probably the effect of the fog that had made it seem huge at first . |
| 15 | As said : ‘ The technology is all there , all it needs is the imagination and push to make it work ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's an amazing feeling and has made me feel much more confident about myself and my abilities . ’ |
| 17 | All this involvement has led people to question their abilities and outlook on their jobs and has made them see that they are capable of doing things ( with a little training and encouragement ) they never dreamed possible a few months ago . |
| 18 | I ask if rum was in the original recipe and she says , no , and I say that 's what stops the cake standing firm and has made it melt all over the place , and she says , ‘ It 's gon na do the same to you , ’ and we laugh like we 're kids . |
| 19 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
| 20 | If you have a kitchen/dining room and want to make it look particularly warm and comfortable you could make a visual division between working and eating areas by stapling the dining walls with a cheap cotton treated with a protective spray . |
| 21 | As he gripped me and tried to make me touch him , I remember screaming inside , ‘ Why do n't you stop ? |
| 22 | But those who argued with me did not share this opinion , and tried to make me conform to their pattern . |
| 23 | The first few times the carabiniere on duty became impatient and tried to make him come out , but the only answer he got was that the prisoner was feeling extremely unwell and wanted please to be left alone . |
| 24 | To begin with the little-uns looked on Piggy as their parental figure because he always acted like an adult in their eyes and tried to make them laugh . |
| 25 | Clinton Hadley fondled the breasts of his victims , aged from 18 to 26 , and tried to make them strip ‘ to relax ’ , a jury was told . |
| 26 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |
| 27 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 28 | I read Millett 's Sexual Politics by the light of an oil lamp , with mosquitos whining in my ears , and tried to make it make sense in Africa . |
| 29 | The prosecution alleges that Gilfoyle killed her and tried to make it look like suicide . |
| 30 | The prosecution alleges that Gilfoyle , 31 , of Grafton Drive , Upton , killed her and tried to make it look like suicide . |