Example sentences of "make them [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having recovered the sail , we made them bleed the line . |
| 2 | This made them hold the glider down and often caused overspeeding or even overrunning of the cable or parachute . |
| 3 | My soldiers were guarding the master copies of the very instructions that made them do the guarding . |
| 4 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 5 | Relentlessly he made them repeat every movement and worked them for hours on end until they were perfectly in unison . |
| 6 | Strings were apparently omitted since the small scale ( the whole box is less than 16″x9″ ) made them look a bit stupid . |
| 7 | Peterborough made them fight every inch of the way . |
| 8 | At the end of the day , however , Celtic just about deserved their triumph , though Dundee made them fight every inch of the way . |
| 9 | So the challenging headline " our creams and lotions are all used up " made them read the rest of the copy . |
| 10 | It 's not a position where A number of people have the idea that it ca n't be a beneficiary , it can , it often is a beneficiary for the obvious reason that if the beneficiaries are getting the goodies , why not make them do the work necessary to get hold of them ? |
| 11 | and I 'm gon na make them come over and I 'm gon na make them beat the shit out of you ! |
| 12 | You can take them up a mountain , but you can never make them enjoy the view . |
| 13 | And of course , That 's right yes , make them do the test first and of course , you may very well need some specialists depending again on as we said , whatever your team has got to do . |
| 14 | I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant . |
| 15 | We have to tax those parking spaces , make them use the Park and Drive , but we 've got to get the carrot there first and the carrot is a much better operated Park and Drive . |
| 16 | Head of Department : ‘ We already make them purchase a pad plus two HB pencils — total £1·50 for Art for the parents . |
| 17 | The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line . |
| 18 | At best , they have an instinctive feeling for what will please people and make them like the product . |
| 19 | All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ . |
| 20 | She had not made them learn a definition of a sentence , which would be entirely inappropriate for this age group , nor did she ask them to complete meaningless exercises . |
| 21 | There was the hope that modest constitutional change might attach the middle classes to the established institutions of the country by making them consider the House of Commons as an ultimate tribunal where their grievances could be discussed and remedied . |
| 22 | This lack of exposure in itself must have the effect of limiting motivation : staff nurses are rarely found battering at the tutors ' doors for advice on how to develop their teaching skills , and some way of motivating them and making them see the importance of teaching must be found . |
| 23 | ‘ A scientific truth , ’ he wrote , and one can almost see the tightly pressed lips , hear the snapping of the pencil , ‘ does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light , but rather because its opponents eventually die , and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It involves making them take the shape wanted while still in solution , ’ Causton says . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It 's just I do n't feel the need to have them round me any more , and I think that suits them and it 's silly to make them pretend the contrary . ’ |
| 27 | It would be wrong to make them pay the price of justice — although this might nudge us into remembering that innocent wives and children and other dependents are made to suffer when the state imprisons thousands of working-class men for crimes which are often insignificant compared with corporate crimes . |
| 28 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 29 | They usually manages to make them last a week and drop them in here on Friday before they go home . |
| 30 | The appearance of a hawk-like bird may provide just the encouragement the potential hosts need to make them abandon the nest for a while and take cover elsewhere . |