Example sentences of "make [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 2 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
| 3 | But Graham and Russell , if anything more composed , made them defend that advantage , and the Chelsea defence responded with a disorder to which only Ken Monkou was an exception . |
| 4 | Often he made them criticize each other 's work . |
| 5 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 6 | We 'll make them spin three pounds instead of two |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And er If you get a small little chickens you can make them do two days |
| 9 | Gravity attracts objects towards each other ; antigravity would make them repel each other . |
| 10 | Erm the people who have problems erm I would think , because of of feeling probably the way , they feel about living in the flats or about having to live in that way , does n't make them feel any batter about erm you know any any other particular difficulties that they 're having . |
| 11 | Daddy 's gon na make me eat some tomato and , and cucumber |
| 12 | ‘ The pleasure of being top , and nothing else , except the interest of my father , made me do such homework as I did in the evenings … . |
| 13 | He made me do terrible things , things with animals , for instance . |
| 14 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 15 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 16 | Made me laugh last night , he said erm I , I , I always do a load of spuds he said even if it 's |
| 17 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 18 | Thanks once again for a charming picture — it made me smile all day . |
| 19 | My knowledge of history and myself made me ask awkward questions . |
| 20 | I remember terrible arguments when shopping for shoes — I wanted to have fashion shoes ( high heels , pointed toes ) like my friends , but Mum always made me have sensible shoes . |
| 21 | Mr Nash added that the whole basis of ASB chairman David Tweedie 's approach was to stop people looking at special figures and make them examine various factors . |
| 22 | This belief has lasted to the present day ; and , in revenge , we should round up all the people who made these awful hippy records and make them read old Charlatans interviews until they beg for mercy and we hurl them into a well filled with angry weasels . |
| 23 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
| 24 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 25 | We put all sorts of rules in , we we make them undergo various periods of er , o of probation before we 're wor , we 've we 're , we 're willing to call them Christians . |
| 26 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 27 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 28 | Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ . |
| 29 | They 've made me have more humility and compassion . |
| 30 | Yes , we members have to abide by the current by-laws , but these have made me lose much confidence in the Society . |