Example sentences of "not make [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not that the family did not make her comfortable or spare any expense to see that she had the clothes and servants she needed , but rather that she found their way of life , their attitudes , their conversation , humour , tastes and ideas completely alien to everything she was used to . |
| 2 | She broke off abruptly , but that did not make her silent . |
| 3 | But then , if that were so , why did it not make her happy ? |
| 4 | And somehow the prospect did not make her happy . |
| 5 | My love does not , can not make her happy ; my love can only release in her the capacity to be happy . |
| 6 | Wealth did not make him lavish , however ; he had always been careful about money — indeed , he was economical in all areas of life , even in small matters such as ensuring that all the tea in a tea-pot had actually been drunk — and Joseph Chiari has remembered how he kept a regular account of his expenses in a pocket notebook . |
| 7 | It does not make him docile or lazy , nor does it interfere with his sexual activities . |
| 8 | I decided that , whatever else happened , tonight I would not make him angry . |
| 9 | Mere negligence on the part of the recipient with respect to the safe custody of the thing will not make him liable . |
| 10 | negligently allowing the goods to be stolen ) would not make him liable for conversion though if he were a bailee of the goods he might be liable in detinue in such circumstances . |
| 11 | The decision was reportedly taken after it became clear that the French Disneyland would not make its expected profit this year . |
| 12 | ‘ It does not make them nervous , ’ Bloch says . |
| 13 | America 's first hostile bids did not go over the heads of the managers , but that did not make them friendly . |
| 14 | You can keep a people ignorant but you can not make them ignorant — ‘ Tom Paine ? ’ |
| 15 | That does not make them quiescent but it does diffuse their conflicts . |
| 16 | If you are going to use them , light weights are good enough for our purpose ; they tone up the muscles but do not make them bulky . |
| 17 | This does not make them invalid : one should merely put them in their appropriate context . |
| 18 | We should rather refer to economic processes which are constituted in a particular place , which of course does not make them local . |
| 19 | He does not , however , make the powerful point which had some currency at the time , that even were there universally accepted beliefs which were innate , this would not make them true , and so something we knew . |
| 20 | Only Robert McNamara of the top team had real doubts , but he did not make them public . |
| 21 | It may not make them popular , but it will usually make them right . |
| 22 | There is , after all , a long history of wife-beating and of genocide , but that does not make them excusable . |
| 23 | The only consolation I have is that he did not make me pregnant . |
| 24 | Even if a band that I liked did this , I 'm sure that it would not make me gay ( And even if the power of rock introduced you to the delights of homosexuality , who cares , eh ? |
| 25 | This stand does not make me blind to the distress others feel or to the disillusionment that this issue causes . |
| 26 | ‘ It does not make me happy . |
| 27 | Pitting my brain against Mr Kent 's maths test did not make me happy . |
| 28 | When he can dig back and not make me angry . |
| 29 | I apologise if I did not make myself clear . |
| 30 | Murray did not make himself available for conversation through the rest of the week . |