Example sentences of "make [pron] [vb infin] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunday nights have always been a problem for the serious cinemagoer , since this is the night that brings out the lads whose parents do n't make them go to bed early before a fresh week at school begins . |
| 2 | Mama made me go to school , but I crept back home just before noon . |
| 3 | ‘ They never made me go to auditions — it was just something that came up . |
| 4 | More than anything else it was the two essays Camus wrote evoking ‘ the great free love of nature and the sea ’ at Tipasa that made me come to Algeria . |
| 5 | ‘ What made you come to Koraloona ? ’ |
| 6 | All all these Oxford undergraduates if you do n't go home and learn your words we 'll let we 'll make you listen to Chris again . |
| 7 | make you go to sleep |
| 8 | Erm , that his father did n't make him go to school . |
| 9 | He nearly had a nervous breakdown so they made him go to Plumford . |
| 10 | He looks very ragged , so I made him go to bed and get some sleep . ’ |
| 11 | As he was one of our Corporals , the Military Police had sought him out and made him return to barracks . |
| 12 | However , according to esteemed French critic Olivier Boissière , ‘ common sense made him turn to architecture ’ . |
| 13 | Judging that Miller had been snoring long enough , he shook him till he woke , and made him drive to Turnhouse . |
| 14 | That was an excess of suspicion , for the letter was drafted by David Hunt , vice Bevir who was ill , and Hunt made it conform to precedents . |
| 15 | It was hard enough to stare at his photograph and make it come to life , but it was impossible to imagine the figure in the picture living in the sort of conditions which Normandin and others had described . |
| 16 | It ai n't fair , Mr Jackson making me go to Combe Court when I do n't want to . |
| 17 | It 's light , comfortable , and worn over a T-shirt , or even next to the skin , warm enough for the Scottish summer without making you sweat to death . |
| 18 | ‘ Wait , James — what is the use of making him pretend to powers ? ’ |
| 19 | But Walcott does n't give his characters enough to do , or make us warm to Sonny so that we care whether he stays a tourist toy . |
| 20 | My father was a sergeant in the Army and both parents did their best to try to make me go to school . |
| 21 | Simply to apply findings , without regard to their particular conditions of validity , is to impose prescribed patterns of behaviour on learners as if they were subjects rather than people and to make them submit to solutions which correspond to problems other than their own . |
| 22 | ‘ It makes me go to sleep in the afternoon . ’ |
| 23 | Keith makes himself go to work . |
| 24 | However , if it 's something you 're not very confident and sure about , quite often the presence of other people makes you fall to bits . |
| 25 | Write so that he can not twist your meaning so as to make you agree to opinions the opposite of those you hold . |
| 26 | He had pleaded with his mother not to make him go to school , but she had insisted , saying that she would pick him up at the end of the day and take him to the hospital , and that he was to ‘ keep busy ’ . |
| 27 | He never touches the Ring , but desire to have it still makes him turn to violence . |
| 28 | However , 11 stated that it was poorly written , and all but one of those 11 rewrote the passage so as to make it conform to Hankamer & Sag 's parallelism condition — some changed the antecedent from are critical of to criticize , others changed the form of the ellipses ( e.g. … anyone who is … ) or eliminated it ( e.g. … anyone who was openly critical … ) . |
| 29 | It had been such a good idea and all that had resulted from it was a double punishment for her and a complete failure to make anyone believe to Alicia or Daryl had played the trick . |