Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , so you have to put a lot of , like , mousse on or make it wet , no not wet , it stings |
| 2 | Selkirk pushed him in and made him squat on a stone ledge while he cut free his bound hands only to fasten gyves to his wrists and ankles ; attached by chains to the wall ; these allowed Corbett to move but quickly chafed his wrists and ankles . |
| 3 | It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
| 5 | In both of these cases our body clock is wrongly timed for our life-style and so it does not cool us down and make us feel more fatigued in the hours just before bedtime . |
| 6 | It pinned us down and made us feel that we could n't not go back without feeling terribly guilty . |
| 7 | When I went to that stress management course we were told to use physical resources like deep breathing and actually making yourself sit down and making yourself go floppy . |
| 8 | I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down |
| 9 | Putting the parcel down and making herself breathe calmly , she unpeeled the paper and took out two flat paper envelopes — packets of seeds — and a little wooden block with wire on it . |
| 10 | A good remoisturising conditioner contains non-greasy oils to trap in the moisture without dragging the hair down and making it lank . |
| 11 | What must seem stupid to non-gardeners , or those who take a rational view of the whole business , is that when you prepare the ground for sowing you first dig it over and make it loose , only to tread it firm again . |
| 12 | This is the type of garment that always looks good as soon as you put it on and makes you feel comfortable and at ease , whatever the occasion . |
| 13 | Her hands flew to his shoulders , but whether to fend him off or make him stay she could not have said . |
| 14 | ‘ I know he 's tired out and that 's the way he relaxes , but I long to switch the television off and make him listen to me , ’ she complained . |
| 15 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 16 | A waiter came up and made him put it on again . |
| 17 | In fact , when Chris , Sara , Michael and I visited her in hospital , it was she who cheered us up and made us laugh ! |
| 18 | She looked up and made herself meet his eyes . |
| 19 | She looked up and made herself say : |
| 20 | Yes , but erm , but Chairman , er , I do n't think I should come up and make myself clear , some local papers were not represented there . |
| 21 | All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ . |
| 22 | When you consider what makes you laugh , try to distinguish between the humour that opens things up , that enables you to confront painful areas and makes you feel stronger , and the humour that operates at the level of the stock response , works on your fear , keeps your defences up and makes you feel weaker . |
| 23 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 24 | As he was one of our Corporals , the Military Police had sought him out and made him return to barracks . |
| 25 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 26 | Likes to set things out and make them go you know |
| 27 | You want to scream out and make them stop it , and you want to cringe up your body and hide it somewhere , and there 's nowhere to hide , and the shells keep screaming down and blowing everything up all around you . |
| 28 | It stops them from dropping out and makes them look longer and thicker — I think it really works . |
| 29 | It felt like my stomach had decided to take a sabbatical ; all that food was just sitting there , unprocessed , locked in , slopping around and making me feel horrible . |
| 30 | And Miss P told him that if ever any man tried to mess him about or to make him do things he did n't want to do then he should come right back to The Bar and tell us , and we 'd sort the man out for him . |