Example sentences of "make [pron] [vb infin] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'll let me , I 'll come racing with you — if you 'll make me part of the team ? ’ she finished a little anxiously . |
| 2 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 3 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 4 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 5 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 6 | Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms . |
| 7 | It was the kind of sound that made you think of the noise lambs probably make when they can smell the mint being brought in from the garden . |
| 8 | All show an understanding of space but also a negation of it , and the exquisite colours and naturalistic detail make one think of the Italian Duccio . |
| 9 | This does at least make him think of the kinds of life to be found in the sea . |
| 10 | ‘ Knowing him , I expect he wanted to get rid of anything that made him think of the separation from his family , ’ she said sympathetically . |
| 11 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 12 | A more interesting survey is the one by Durex , which reveals that Lancastrians have sex on average 77 times a year — which astonishingly makes them top of the league . |
| 13 | This time of the building of the gardens of our minds makes me think of the Pacific Ocean where insects spin the sunlight and the salt water , and weave them into the most beautiful oases of the sea . |
| 14 | Er with reference to the great pestilence er makes me think of the original great pestilence , the Black Death and of course er contaminated individuals be put in a pest house far away from places of habitation but they can contaminate others which one ca n't help thinking that it would be quite a good policy has commissioned . |
| 15 | ‘ Its quiet position makes you think of the country . |
| 16 | Gombrich makes him think of the readiness with which the eye recognizes the features of the human face . |