Example sentences of "try to make it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
| 2 | He tried to make it sound fresh and exciting . |
| 3 | It was so simple , however hard Izzie tried to make it sound difficult with all her ‘ don'ts ’ . |
| 4 | She tried to make it sound casual but was aware that her tone had risen slightly . |
| 5 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
| 6 | I did not want anyone to think I was a Yahoo , so I tried to make it clear that my habits were very different from theirs . |
| 7 | I tried to make it clear at an early stage my petition is a simple , straightforward one not involved with wildlife management , history or anything else like that , I simply believe that killing animals for fun is morally wrong . |
| 8 | Almost immediately , Doherty went on to try to make it general and so , of course , capable of calling for a general strike . |
| 9 | If the patient had hobbies before his stroke or head injury , such as drawing , painting or needlepoint , you should try to make it possible for him to take them up again . |
| 10 | ‘ If there are four people in a car , Richard will always try to make it six , ’ says one friend . |
| 11 | I am putting together an album of our preservation activities as we go along and will try to make it available on meeting nights and other public occasions . |
| 12 | This is an important and also a difficult point , so let me try to make it clearer . |
| 13 | I 'll try to make it brief because Bob has er mentioned this and has pretty well er all party support to , to the savings , er the reduction of two percent in the erm , it 's not quite devastating but following the er drastic restructuring of the , of the department in the last two or three years , is quite significant erm er I , I , and I think that er we must thank the , the director of and , and er volunteering if you like because in 's report erm th , th , these , erm the , the savings . |
| 14 | He said , I know my English is n't correct , but I try to make it correct . |
| 15 | A converted try put Rockcliffe 10–7 ahead but Campbell converted Duncan Gill 's try to make it 13–10 to Bishops . |
| 16 | ‘ I try to make it different . |
| 17 | ‘ And so you try to make it shorter . ’ |
| 18 | We try to make it clear to people in Hong Kong and to the Government of China that the main component in our relationship with the People 's Republic of China must be Hong Kong and carrying the 1984 agreement to success . |
| 19 | ‘ People have tried to make it sound complicated and sophisticated but pulling it together is really just hard work involving a lot of discussion , ’ said Robert Ure , associate director with Sedgwick in Scotland . |
| 20 | We have tried to make it clear in the law that what we are establishing is a parallel procedure and not an exclusive procedure , so that the other law as it existed , whatever it is , still does exist today , but that here is a prescribed procedure which terminally ill patients may choose to use should they wish to do so . |
| 21 | Throughout the book 1 have tried to make it clear that the approach is not prescriptive , and successful applications depend a great deal on the intellectual and creative skills of the analyst . |
| 22 | Her tears were wetting his shirt and she lifted her hand , wiping at her wet cheeks and smoothing the white shirt thoughtlessly , trying to make it dry . |
| 23 | Now Claire looks straight at Keith , speaking intensely , trying to make it all real for him . |
| 24 | Like everyone else in this market , IBM is trying to make it easy for small sites to install so it comes in a wide variety of fixed configurations that encompass various Token Ring , Ethernet wide area network and SDLC attached devices . |
| 25 | It is frustrating as a producer , when you have so many ideas that are worth trying to make it better . ’ |
| 26 | He did , but ran himself out trying to make it 101 ; still a six-wicket victory all the same . |
| 27 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 28 | So you could see the pattern yourself and make it easier and a lot of the time at school when the teacher 's telling you , Why do n't you do it this way ? they 're not trying to make it harder for you . |
| 29 | I encouraged them to lead but kept them going towards the sun by suggesting detours round obstructing patches , and I identified the trees for them , trying to make it interesting . |
| 30 | Noblenet Inc , the Natick , Massachusetts-based developer of EZ-RPC transport-independent remote procedure call software , is trying to make it big and and is looking for OEMs to sell its distributed computing technology . |