Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio waves are useful as we can make them carry information by modulating them — for example , changing the amplitude of the fluctuations so that the change represents information . |
| 2 | Sunday nights have always been a problem for the serious cinemagoer , since this is the night that brings out the lads whose parents do n't make them go to bed early before a fresh week at school begins . |
| 3 | By gum , he could make them go ! |
| 4 | Unfortunately that did n't make them go away . |
| 5 | Surely they would n't make them go the whole distance in the dark ? |
| 6 | to sort of make them go round |
| 7 | They fed these children with these tablets that would make them go and the parents were rushing out and buying tablets to make the children intel the children intelligent . |
| 8 | I can make them disappear too . ’ |
| 9 | We have locked them away , in the vain hope that by doing so we could make them disappear . |
| 10 | Those which have are reaping impressive rewards simply by identifying precisely the services or products customers want ; looking at their most lucrative areas ; finding out what clients really value ; and establishing what would make them move to a competing hotel . |
| 11 | ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy . |
| 12 | Who boils his socks will make them shrink ; |
| 13 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 14 | when the old boy comes round and see what you 've done with the old horse manure , spread some of that around and that 'll make them grow as well |
| 15 | If your organization is slap-happy it will unnerve candidates and may make them think twice before accepting a job with you . |
| 16 | Mais je me dis , des enfants c'est des enfants , on peut pas les faire penser comme des adultes , on peut pas — ‘ I tell myself , children are children ; one ca n't make them think like adults — one just ca n't ’ |
| 17 | That it might make them think other than we wish them to think ? |
| 18 | The prison service does n't pretend to change every inmate 's attitude , but they 're hoping it will make them think . |
| 19 | cos it 'll make them think about their language wo n't they ? |
| 20 | Oh yeah , that irritates me but , I mean it 's gon na it 's gon na make them think again in n it ? |
| 21 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 22 | We 'll make them spin three pounds instead of two |
| 23 | Then next for the Spinner we shall ensue , We 'll make them spin three pound instead of two ; When they bring home their work unto us , they complain , And say that their wages will not them maintain ; But if that an ounce of weight they do lack , Then for to bate threepence we will not be slack . |
| 24 | Only later are unanticipated costs and benefits visible ; hindsight can make them appear deliberate all along . |
| 25 | Attempts to make the arts accountable by submitting them to forms of assessment which properly belong elsewhere may actually make them appear wanting by looking for inappropriate forms of proof . |
| 26 | We check out a sound card that will make them eat their words — the Laserwave Plus . |
| 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 | In practice , as we have seen , it is British policy to subsidise the polluting farmers rather than make them pay to clean up the pollution . ) |
| 29 | He would make them pay . |
| 30 | I would make them pay for what they 've done . |