Example sentences of "and makes [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olwyn hits Katie and makes her cry . |
| 2 | A celebration of the Queen 's passion for the Turf , gun dogs and racing pigeons — one imagines in that order — comes as a welcome relief and makes one hope fervently that she will one day lead in a Derby winner . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell me , my lady — is it mere courtesy that makes the bells ring , that makes moonlight of a sudden more desirable than sunlight and makes one yearn for this Twelfth Night to be of the past ? |
| 4 | No doubt this was the real point of the missive , but it is rather vaguely expressed and makes one wonder whether the author really had much idea what had happened . |
| 5 | The whole meal takes almost an hour and makes me ravenous . |
| 6 | Mum takes me to the doctor , our village doctor , who weighs me and mumbles about taking dieting too far and makes me an appointment as an outpatient at the hospital . |
| 7 | This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill . |
| 8 | I am so glad ; it sounds pretty good to me , and makes me feel just a poor bloody soldier . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ This breaks my heart and makes me very , very angry . ’ |
| 10 | It stops me concentrating on breathing properly and makes me feel as if I 've lost control of the situation . |
| 11 | But they do n't speak any English , I do n't speak any Arabic , so I 'm gesturing away about the bar-tailed lark and not being able to go into the forbidden zone , and somehow or other the leader understands what I 'm going on about and makes me understand that because they 're nomads they do n't have to follow international boundaries . |
| 12 | Of all this glad good earth and makes me kin |
| 13 | Sometimes my helper comes in and says , ‘ It 's time for a walk ’ and makes me do it even if I think , ‘ No I 'm too comfy to move ! ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ She talks of little else and makes me quite vexed with her at times . |
| 15 | his drawing pad and makes me trace again and again |
| 16 | I catch a bit of radio while I 'm changing cassettes just north of Perth and hear something called I 'll Sleep When I 'm Dead by Bon Jovi which is n't a patch on Uncle Warren 's song of the same name and makes me more than reasonably annoyed . |
| 17 | He 's honest to a fault and makes me feel I 'm greatly loved . |
| 18 | As for yours truly , yes , there is someone who I met quite recently , who probably needs me no more than I need her , someone who brings out my poetic streak , and makes me believe in the little people . ’ |
| 19 | The wasted life and the wasted love that comes to me in the night and makes me cry out in pain . ’ |
| 20 | Gibson said : ‘ It is soul destroying and makes me wonder whether all the effort is worthwhile . |
| 21 | If that 's what you 're doing in practice , say so , do n't put all these exclusions in the document because that makes me suspicious and makes me think you 're trying to exclude these things . |
| 22 | It 's fast , flash , intelligent and makes everything on Radio One sound slow and middle-aged . |
| 23 | Then , another doctor told me there was a drug that dries out alcoholics and makes something very raspy happen to the voice . |
| 24 | And that if she must choose between love and work , she should never hesitate : it is work , a woman 's own creative work , that gives her the only real satisfaction and makes her life worth living . |
| 25 | Robyn parks her car in one of the University 's landscaped car parks , lugs her Gladstone bag from the front passenger seat , and makes her way to the English Department . |
| 26 | She brings him food , amateurishly tends his horrendous wound , and he shows her photographs of his home and makes her daisy chains . |
| 27 | Her art is most successful when she takes on archetypal roles and makes her audience aware , simultaneously , of how immediately recognizable , widely shared and transparently obvious these roles are . |
| 28 | Catunda Alfredo , an October 1990 bitch , cost owner-trainer Janice Ormerod just 50 guineas ( £52.50 ) and makes her debut tonight . |
| 29 | The good composer expresses what he feels and makes what he is making , from an essentially musical motivation , by essentially musical means , with all the skill and experience he can command . |
| 30 | Incidentally , direct a little light down behind the speaker : it fills the space behind him and makes him more three-dimensional . |