Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] make [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no suggestion that Chief Whip Mr Ryder or his Whips Office colleagues were guilty of this particular brutish behaviour , but many other Euro rebels complained that they were mercilessly browbeaten to make them withdraw their opposition . |
| 2 | She was prickly and sharp with him , and only too obviously relieved to make her escape . |
| 3 | It only served to make her look more distinguished . |
| 4 | If a horse stops pulling once he has settled down and works sensibly and correctly after say , 20 minutes of ‘ whoopee ’ then it is a matter of working through the exuberance stage with as many exercises in the form of transitions and ‘ things to do ’ as possible to occupy the horse 's mind and so try to make him concentrate on his work rather than other exciting stimuli . |
| 5 | THE texture of a meal is important so try to make it varied . |
| 6 | 2 This only served to make us redouble our efforts and two years later we proved it was possible . |
| 7 | There was n't even much attempt to make it look like a mugging ; he still had his wallet . |
| 8 | If she had only tried to make him see … |
| 9 | The organisers would like to address the view that the infected are ‘ victims ’ , not just people living with the disease : ‘ A negative input only serves to make them feel they 're under a death sentence . ’ |
| 10 | And Wisdom only serves to make her know |
| 11 | ‘ Well , he 's celebrity-seeking enough to have made you talk about him . ’ |
| 12 | KIM WILDE : For allowing herself to be subjected to year after year of pathetic changes of image which only serve to make her look uncomfortable , especially the latest one , with the expensive Marilyn Monroe dress , loads of cleavage and sub-Belinda Carlisle rock balladeering . |
| 13 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 14 | The patient may find these activities both boring and frustrating , especially if you are constantly trying to make him concentrate on them as educational tasks . |
| 15 | He was only trying to make her feel better . |
| 16 | And I know you 're only offering to make yourself feel better . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Critics have found me narrow , implies that his reputation is already controversial , a truth of which he was justly proud , and it is a provocation aptly calculated to make one read on ; and to claim that the only way to escape misrepresentation is to say nothing implies that something momentous is about to be said , that it is his habit and custom to do so , and that he is widely hated because he does . |
| 18 | ‘ You know , Lissa , seeing you tonight has made me realise that I 'd hate to lose contact with you again . |
| 19 | Now , just remembering made her feel shaky and babyish . |
| 20 | ‘ In those days , the new psychology was just beginning to make itself felt in the circles I most frequented in Oxford , ’ he told readers of the 1950 reprint of Dymer . |
| 21 | She had taken off her coat , somehow contrived to make herself seem a little dishevelled , as though the two of them had just been snogging on the sofa or something . |
| 22 | He was a big bluff man with a receding hairline and aggressively triple chin which somehow managed to make him look powerful but not fat — like a back row rugby player , Tom thought . |
| 23 | Moreover , not only is the dormant company then entitled to the exemption from auditing but , if it would have been entitled to the exemptions of a small company under section 246 but for the fact that it is a member of an ineligible group , it will also be entitled to those exemptions ; until it ceases to be dormant or no longer qualifies to make itself exempt under section 250 . |
| 24 | He was somehow managing to make her begin to doubt her own words — simply by subjecting her to that look of dark unbelief . |
| 25 | Maybe he just wanted to make 'em hunt and fret a bit . ’ |
| 26 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 27 | All the evidence suggests that she had her confessor wrapped around her little finger : while claiming the complete obedience appropriate to her spiritual supervisor she in fact got round every attempt he ever made to make her moderate her life style ; she persuaded him to confer his blessing and approval on her choices . |
| 28 | For him these first moments of meeting each day were so exciting an elixir that he always tried to make them last as long as possible , and the sight of her in full flight on her bicycle never failed to set his blood tingling . |
| 29 | Its the attitude cracks me up , oh , every thing he 's ever done makes me laugh |
| 30 | Old paper was usually sized to make it take ink smoothly . |