Example sentences of "[noun pl] make [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 2 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 3 | In fact , the numbers of Punch aficionados make me worry that the same end will come to the comp complex as came to Punch . |
| 4 | What makes it look all the more daft is that they will often have to wear the same number tabard all the way through , which over top hat and tails makes them look like someone wearing his vest over his dinner jacket . |
| 5 | Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself . |
| 6 | She stood defiantly in front of him , shaking her head , trying desperately to find the words to make him realise that she was tired , due for leave , and really felt he should ask someone else . |
| 7 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 8 | Often the tensions made it appear as though there was a ring of invisible men sitting outside the circle of women , a silent audience whose approval we often still needed . |
| 9 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 10 | These ideas make me think that creativity and beauty are linked . |
| 11 | Not least , the absence of any serious rationing of consumer goods , and the large number of exemptions from military service for skilled workers and farmers made it appear that the regime was well in control of developments , did not fear a war on the 1914–18 scale , and was even rather generous in its provisioning arrangements . |
| 12 | Through the quarry and the conifer woods and out into the main road where the yellow lights make you look like something in a Hammer horror . |
| 13 | When I 'm not happy every day , about the things I said today , she caught me being rude today , but I know , she 'll tell stories to make me laugh , she makes me laugh , makes me laugh , she 'll tell stories to make me laugh and to make me feel this bad , I love my mum , she 's the best mum in the world |
| 14 | My mum remembers long ago , when she makes snow men in the snow , and pulled a face at Mrs Jones , but I 'll know she 'll tell stories to make me laugh , make me laugh , make me laugh , she 'll tell stories to make me laugh and to make me feel this bad , I love my mum , she 's the best mum in the world |
| 15 | Their bleedings and leakages , their lumps and growths , their peculiarly painful-sounding surgical operations — scraping of wombs , stripping of veins , amputation of breasts — the mere mention of such things makes him wince and cringe , and lately the menopause has added new items to the repertory : the hot flush , flooding , and something sinister called a bloat . |
| 16 | At the CNPF , France 's business and industry lobby , there are complaints that the government has been fudging figures to make it look as though targets have been met . |
| 17 | In short , their easy manner and friendly ways made us forget that they were the King and Queen of England . |
| 18 | An l.e.d. requires 2V approximately between its ends to make it work and the output from the stereo would hardly achieve this or might only do so intermittently with loud sounds . |
| 19 | Their long skirts make them look as though they glide on wheels along the riverside track ; both of them hold a spindle , working and talking all their way . |
| 20 | But enquiries from two missionary friends already recruited as Kachin advisers made me realise that there would be little opportunity to influence policy and relationships . |
| 21 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , there are other reasons to make us believe that there are alternate universes . |
| 23 | That sense of disintegration which he always feared was now all around him ; earlier in 1938 , he had told Martin Browne that public events made him feel that he was working against time and that , in any case , the race might be lost . |