Example sentences of "a [noun] to make [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pitcher can spin a baseball to make it follow a trajectory in any direction . |
| 2 | All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's running a cartel to make you carry on with your particular activity and then take his 40 per cent — it 's wickedness . ’ |
| 4 | The Owton Manor Primary School pupil from Hartlepool had his left leg broken and pinned in a bid to make it grow longer . |
| 5 | Hospital nurses opposing a plan to make them wear their own clothes for work have put off a decision to take action in protest . |
| 6 | I pray for a wood-spirit to make me dance , |
| 7 | ‘ So long as your prick is n't made of wood as well as ! ’ she had said with a laugh to make him feel easy . |
| 8 | ‘ Before you say we 're not lovers , Claudia , remember that many things are possible in this world , though it will take a miracle to make me forget whose lover you really are . ’ |
| 9 | But she knew that Chinese Charlie would clean and press a garment to make it look almost new and she could get as much as two shillings for a good overcoat or a suit . |
| 10 | And in all this , Joseph had learnt that Bligh 's proven and later much copied method of keeping off sickness , especially the scurvy , was to force fruit on his crew : fruit and exercise , for which purpose he carried a fiddler to make them dance every day . |
| 11 | Yeah … if there was a pill to make them take it … |
| 12 | And indeed , from this lofty site Loch Arkaig itself is a vision to make you burst into song . |
| 13 | It was all a smokescreen to make them believe that the Clarion Call had been lost at sea . |
| 14 | Once could not genetically engineer a duck to make it cluck . |
| 15 | ‘ It took a lot to make me miss our date the other night , Folly , ’ he whispered . |
| 16 | But I seem to have hit on a compromise , a way to make them feel they still have a stake in the treasure , but in addition an enhancement of their family 's reputation . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll find a way to make you run in harness , see if I do n't ! ’ |
| 18 | Cover the log with the rest of the mixture , using a fork to make it look like bark . |
| 19 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 20 | But , in an attempt to make it look as if democracy were alive , Iran 's clergy were urged to form political parties . |
| 21 | No , I would n't say I did , and I would n't say that 's what I was looking for , particularly , because again I mean it 's a much abused notion that perhaps that class disappears in postwar Britain , I think that 's a political issue that was an attempt to make it look as if class was disappearing , class differences rather , but I think there is a lot of evening out , there 's not the stark differences of the quality of life of furnishings that you would have found say in homes before the war . |
| 22 | But this is not a work of criticism , nor an attempt to make you like The Faerie Queene or the Confessio Amantis . |
| 23 | They have already said it to the Wilson Committee : we are doing our best to preserve the value of the funds entrusted to us , and any attempt to force us to invest in projects offering sub-optimal returns for ‘ social ’ reasons is an attempt to make us break faith with our customers . |
| 24 | After the events of 1968 it was renamed ‘ The Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters ' ’ which was an attempt to make us restrict our goals . |
| 25 | He does not require an imperative to make him avoid the sickness from the thought of which he already shrinks in nausea ; what he has to force himself to do is hold on to the fact that sickness is the likely outcome of yielding to temptation . |
| 26 | Turning up out of nowhere , catching me off guard like this , managing with the flick of an expression to make me feel inferior all over again ! |