Example sentences of "[pers pn] could make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I longed to prove you were unfaithful to him so I could make him throw you over — I felt like a monster with every ungenerous thought that flickered through my mind . |
| 2 | " Yet if I could make him notice me perhaps he might consider my suitability as a wife . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew how I could make you feel , ’ he corrected , ‘ but there 's a great deal of difference between bodily chemistry and love . |
| 4 | ‘ I could make you take that back , ’ he said , his voice a low growl very close to her ear . |
| 5 | ‘ If only I could make you see how wonderful it is . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I could make it werf yer while , ’ she said fluttering her eyelashes at him . |
| 7 | We will see , in Part Two , how much better stopping them could make you feel . |
| 8 | Christina hoped it would n't be too long before she could make her escape . |
| 9 | She smiled up at him , wishing she could will the tension out of his body , wishing she could make him relax that guard . |
| 10 | She could make him doubt most things about himself , but not the accuracy of his ears . |
| 11 | At a stroke she could make them vanish , but she 'd still see them . |
| 12 | Probably she had some old typing paper of Walter 's still around in the attic , so she could make them look convincing . |
| 13 | You could make them see it so clearly if only you 'd try . ’ |
| 14 | You 're stronger than I am , and I know you could make me do … ’ she lowered her lashes in embarrassment ‘ … things … that I do n't want to do . |
| 15 | ‘ I started training modest horses and in those days you could make it pay by running them in selling races . ’ |
| 16 | And if you got four together you may be two down or three down and one back , you could make it pay , and share the cost out between everyone . |
| 17 | All the parties were the same ( such cynicism from our beautiful people , I thought ) , although , someone droned , ‘ Maybe anarchy would be alright if you could make it work . ’ |
| 18 | We have locked them away , in the vain hope that by doing so we could make them disappear . |
| 19 | And I think if we could make it get one of the Uttlesford chaps to the same meeting |
| 20 | If meeting him could make you reach for something a lot stronger than H 2 O , you will be relieved to hear that he 's anchored to the ground . |
| 21 | Crabtree and Evelyn is not a name I would instantly associate with culinary excellence — though I always knew they could make you smell nice . |
| 22 | Natalie Merchant 's voice — so emotive it could make you like a song about King Of The Gits Jack Kerouac and feel sorry for the little bunny rabbits that we cruelly kill for a laugh — rose through songs which flew and were simultaneously ecstatic and melancholy . |
| 23 | It was all very pleasant , and Cassie began to remember what she had all but forgotten : Just what good company Ben was , and how much he could make her laugh . |
| 24 | He half expected ocean , the white towers of Moon Beach , but there was only land , land that looked infinite , land without end , and he stood still and stared , as if by staring he could make something happen , the first drop of rain already drying on his shoulder . |
| 25 | She loved her father because he could make everyone laugh . |
| 26 | By gum , he could make them go ! |
| 27 | My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go . |
| 28 | And if the pieces were in place — the right words , above all , and then the right part — he could make it work . |
| 29 | Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will . |
| 30 | He could make you feel machinery . |