Example sentences of "making them [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It might take a letter a week to get to Germany , might n't it ? ’ said Mrs Fanshawe , taking her rings off and amusing herself by making them flash in the sunlight right into Nurse Rose 's eyes . |
| 2 | In some ranges , you can buy decor panels to fit the front of specially designed built-in appliances , making them match the cupboards . |
| 3 | There is sometimes a fine line between encouraging residents to take part in an activity and making them do something they really do not want to do . |
| 4 | With that , the situation transcends the initial paradigmatic form or structure of coercion ; for if people do n't mind doing what you want them to do , you ca n't really be making them do it . |
| 5 | The veto , yes we touched upon that , that 's that 's stopping the congress from doing something rather than making them do something . |
| 6 | It will alter the way in which doctors , nurses , and other professionals work ( not least in making them rely more on each other 's information ) . |
| 7 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 8 | The object of the game is to bring together similar shapes ( triangles , squares , etc. ) making them disappear — destroy all to reach the next level . |
| 9 | Push the pictured tiles around the playing area , matching like with like and making them disappear — when two similar designs are placed adjacent to each other , they 're destroyed . |
| 10 | AWI treats both text and cartoon characters as actors , and has some very powerful tools for making them move . |
| 11 | They shoved by , the stale odour of the gatekeeper 's body making them choke . |
| 12 | I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in . |
| 13 | The possibilities for recasting the UK accounts are being examined , with the intention of making them reflect the real resource use , or output contribution , of the public sector , rather than simply its share of expenditure . |
| 14 | He was the possessor of learning which he shared unselfishly with his students , making them feel it was just as much theirs as his . |
| 15 | He knew how to extract ideas and information from people without ever making them feel sucked of vitality — because he never failed to give back as much as he took . |
| 16 | It is important to accept our children , single or married , without making them feel that they are less valued if they remain single , or if they marry someone who is not our choice . |
| 17 | Learn how to disagree with the arguments put forward by others without making them feel small . |
| 18 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has a genius for encouraging new species into its reserves , making them feel welcome . |
| 19 | Teachers need to take children 's ideas seriously , and avoid making them feel that they have to search for the right answer , hidden somewhere in the teacher 's head . |
| 20 | ‘ It is a poor motivation to ask people to change by making them feel bad or unworthy . |
| 21 | That serves two purposes — it keeps the costs down and is good therapy for the inmates , making them feel more useful . |
| 22 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 23 | Bob , another way of involving the audience making them feel part of it |
| 24 | No good making them feel awkward , they just do what they 're going to do and that 's it . |
| 25 | The tabloid press will publish stories of dole scroungers laying in bed all day , living the life of Riley on the dole , blaming the unemployed and making them feel guilty for a desperate plight . |
| 26 | Or they were the wings of that sweet-faced Gabriel who appears in so many pictures , whose scarlet plumes brush the ceiling of the bedroom in which he has alighted ; whose shadow fills the whole of the bedroom wall , whose robes cover half the bedroom carpet and whose single , beckoning finger silences the virgins of history , making them forget the books which they have been surprised reading , and sends them sinking to their knees . |
| 27 | The tactic is to draw speculators ' fangs by making them commit capital to buying put options . |
| 28 | She brushed them with a brush that was kept in the summer-house , making them stand still , with their heads up . |
| 29 | Mr Whitehouse reads the letters : someone called John Huntley , a model , gained the confidence to enter his profession through Mr McLean 's kindness ; Janice Joyce , who knew McLean at the Hippodrome , thinks the only way Lenny could really kill anyone would be by making them laugh . |
| 30 | As I gained confidence in their genuine goodwill I found that my sense of humour returned and I enjoyed making them laugh . |