Example sentences of "do [not/n't] make [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 2 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 3 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 4 | Shopkeeper — Sorry , madam , we do n't make them that big . |
| 5 | ’ Do n't make me sound as old as I sometimes feel . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No , do n't make me too comfortable . |
| 7 | Please God , do n't make me so vain , she asked , scrambling to her feet with the rest of the congregation as the organ launched into ‘ We plough the fields and scatter ’ . |
| 8 | Things happen in these hills that do n't make it on to the evening bulletins . |
| 9 | It comes in handy , know a blue car and I think it has a boot , I ca n't tell you the type of , do n't make it up , if you do n't kn know , do n't make it up . |
| 10 | It comes in handy , know a blue car and I think it has a boot , I ca n't tell you the type of , do n't make it up , if you do n't kn know , do n't make it up . |
| 11 | If you do n't know do n't make it up , do n't guess . |
| 12 | but if do n't know , if you do n't know do n't make it up . |
| 13 | Erm I think it 's , er an original mark of the book that they do n't make it up . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't make it sound like a disease , love , ’ he interrupted gently . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't make it sound so one-sided . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't make it sound so unlikely . |
| 17 | Remember , though , that you need to get at an internal filter for maintenance , so do n't make it completely inaccessible . |
| 18 | ‘ If the suggestion I heard just now , ’ I said to McIllvanney , ‘ was what I thought it was , then do n't make it again . |
| 19 | They do n't make it anymore ? |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , Mama , do n't make it more difficult than it already is . |
| 21 | The the point Peter er is making is do n't make it out to us because if you if you give me a cheque to Worsley I 've got to go to Peter 's house and and then get him to give me a cheque and then I 've got to go to either Kerry or Bob and get them |
| 22 | Do n't make it hard on yourself . ’ |
| 23 | Keep lips together while drawing the lipline and do n't make it too heavy . |
| 24 | Oh , please God , she prayed , shake Perdita out of this ghastly mood and make her happy again , and look after darling Violet and Eddie , and Gainsborough and Ethel , and please God , if you think it 's right , let me fall in love with a man who is n't married , who falls in love with me and do n't make it too long . |
| 25 | Another thing that might be worth doing as well I mean do n't make it too complicated we ought to about which things to put in . |
| 26 | Only do n't make it too much for me to bear ! ’ |
| 27 | Only , we do n't make it too easy for them to find us . ’ |
| 28 | Now , do n't make it too difficult , the big problem with kids sett setting sheets they that they make it far harder than the teacher ever would so do do n't be over ambitious , let's have a few easy ones to start with , right . |
| 29 | By the way , the overall winner , so I do n't make it too I B M , was of course , Body Shop International . |
| 30 | Do n't make it too thin . |