Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] to make [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My battle to make Patrick walk alone , by Michael Aspel |
| 2 | Its attempt to make farmers pay for the pollution they caused had been overturned by the environmentally primitive MAFF . |
| 3 | She was proud of her ability to make things grow , a new skill , developed at Loxford , but a garden was a tyrant as well as a satisfaction , and this garden was regarded by her family as very much her business . |
| 4 | Dissatisfied with its incapacity to make councils cut spending , the government adopted a final sanction — rate capping . |
| 5 | The churchmen published Galileo 's recantation throughout Europe to demonstrate their power to make men recant . |
| 6 | With his powers of observation , his smooth , fast-moving narratives and his ability to make characters live on the screen , Hitchcock set himself apart from the rest of British cinema . |
| 7 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |