Example sentences of "to make [pers pn] [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was enough to make me forget the abstract art of 1912–13 ! ’ |
| 2 | But too much mist obscures the question what it is like to be a chimp for even the best-meaning efforts to make them make the best of meaning . |
| 3 | Businessmen still referred to the O-level , he said , and it would be difficult to make them understand the new way and ensure all attainment levels , from the beginning of the National Curriculum at the age of seven to the end at 16 , were fair and consistent . |
| 4 | She wants to make you feel the cheapest ever Spryly She-She left the room . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it all sounded pretty convincing , so much so that you came out wondering whether that persistent zit on your face was n't the result of bad diet , but actually something implanted by alien beings , determined for their own mysterious purposes to make you suffer the social embarrassment of a bad complexion . |
| 6 | ‘ The aim is to make you look the best and capture it on film . ’ |
| 7 | But this is not a work of criticism , nor an attempt to make you like The Faerie Queene or the Confessio Amantis . |
| 8 | All the activity around his earth , and the fact that there were a mere three hounds , had combined to make him think the open country might be safer today ; now they 'd given him proof that it was n't . |
| 9 | Although Harry tried to be tender and attentive at first , Ann sensed from the start that he did n't really love her , and that she would never be able to make him forget the great hurt he had suffered by losing Martha . |
| 10 | You would n't reduce the batteries to reverse it to make it go the other way . |
| 11 | Wilson and Jones , in their investigations of this effect , did not test the carcinogens on cells , but on DNA extracted from cells and treated so as to make it mimic the methylated DNA of a dividing cell . |
| 12 | I have settled the succession by English law and not by Welsh , to make it hold the firmer , and stop their mouths from questioning it . |
| 13 | It is perfectly true that there is nothing conclusively in the poem to make us identify the first stair with Dante 's Inferno , the second with his Purgatorio , the third with Paradiso ; as there is not ( a more piercing uncertainty ) anything to determine for us whether ‘ the broadbacked figure drest in blue and green ’ , with his ‘ music of the flute ’ , is an image of what must be renounced in order to achieve Paradise , or else an image of how terrestrial life can most nearly attain the paradisal . |