Example sentences of "thing that make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh Setver that 's the thing that make it pretend to not be the |
| 2 | One thing that made John happy when he went home for Christmas 1944 and the New Year was the presence in Johannesburg of his father 's new friend , Phyllis Hirsch . |
| 3 | And yet this is the kind of thing that made a fortune for Dr Tarnower and is , in its way , replicated in all diet books : this mixture of ruthlessness , optimism and fatuity . |
| 4 | The thing that made Lee Marvin such a perfect rogue is that , despite all the stories of his being drunk on the set and causing producers to have palpitations , there is probably no single director or actor who worked with him who did n't think the world of him . |
| 5 | At home my anorexic behaviour sustained me : it was the only consistent factor in my life , the only thing that made sense . |
| 6 | The thing that made it attractive to Paneth and Peters , and years later to Pons , Fleischmann and Jones , was its great affinity for hydrogen — it can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of the gas . |
| 7 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 8 | ‘ Actually , that was the first thing that made somebody show me something about Manson , when I was wondering who Jack Benny 's neighbours might have been . |
| 9 | The thing that made me a little envious was this girl — she 's his assistant on this particular film — ringing up , and there was a slight chance they would be going to Switzerland that day , and suddenly I was in there again and I thought how exciting it all was and how nice it would be to go off filming again . |
| 10 | There was no one thing that made it go wrong . |
| 11 | It was the same thing that made him physically shrink into his scarf and his leather jacket . |
| 12 | The thing that made the turning point happened just as we were leaving . |
| 13 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 14 | The thing that made Aldus 's product take off was undoubtedly the special relationship between Apple ( who heavily promoted it as a way to sell their LaserWriter page printer ) , Adobe ( who wanted to make a market for PostScript ) and Aldus themselves — the so-called Triple-A Alliance . |
| 15 | The thing that made me feel he was more normal was this little bit of dialogue . |
| 16 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She felt the only thing that made the company work was good design and hard work , nothing else . |
| 18 | She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book . |
| 19 | It was the only thing that made her restless , and Marguerite noticed . |
| 20 | The only thing that made my hair stand on end was when I would say : ‘ Dive through that window there and , as you go through it , hit it with your fists clenched together , tuck your head down in between on your elbows , get through and , as you go through , go into a roll . ’ |
| 21 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
| 22 | For the one thing that makes rock more than simply an industry , the one thing that transcends the commodity relation , is fidelity , the idea of a relationship . |
| 23 | It 's the only thing that makes me proud about that country . |
| 24 | Perhaps the only thing that makes a day of interviews bearable is the narcissistic pleasure of talking about yourself . |
| 25 | ‘ This business with me is not the only thing that makes that seem false . |
| 26 | With Genesis , one thing that makes it a lot of fun is that it 's a smaller group . |
| 27 | One regular passenger said : ‘ Her presence seems to be the only thing that makes the trains run on time . ’ |
| 28 | Yet that sort of worry is the kind of thing that makes him so exciting . ’ |
| 29 | With the building of this new road and planned ferry we are undoubtedly destroying the very thing that makes this area so special . |
| 30 | Someone who thought there must be one thing that makes the difference might say it was an impression of familiarity . |