Example sentences of "to make it [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stapleton had the idea of buying a huge hound , and of using the phosphorus to make it shine like the hound in the story . |
| 2 | ‘ I try to suggest , to an actor , something in the scene other than what appears to make it move on the surface . ’ |
| 3 | The necks of the inverted bottles are dipped in a freezing brine which freezes the wine and sediment at the base of the cork sufficiently to make it adhere to the bottle 's inner-surface ; the dégorgeur can then bring the bottle back to its upright position without disturbing the sediment . |
| 4 | Again he tried to make it stand with the thin box as the base and once again it fell over . |
| 5 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 6 | And when I took over the magazine I said let's just use the typefaces that they use in the newspaper and supplement them for some headlines , but try to make it belong in the New York Times . |
| 7 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
| 8 | But Kuwait , which is reported to have built up its output recently to 2 million bpd , was resisting pressure to make it share in the cuts . |
| 9 | But to tame an animal as awe-inspiring as a wild elephant , to make it work in the forests and to carry man into battle ! |