Example sentences of "and make us [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both of these cases our body clock is wrongly timed for our life-style and so it does not cool us down and make us feel more fatigued in the hours just before bedtime . |
| 2 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |
| 3 | Unfortunately it is exactly these thoughts and behaviours which make the panic attack worse , make us terrified of having another and make us begin to avoid any and every situation where it could possibly happen again . |
| 4 | Death will quickly draw the veil and make us see how near we were to God and one another , and did not sufficiently know it . |
| 5 | And make us see through wine as if through glass . |
| 6 | By 35 , our faces have undergone structural changes , so that the hair-styles which suited us throughout our 20s may suddenly seem severe and make us look older . |
| 7 | In fact , when Chris , Sara , Michael and I visited her in hospital , it was she who cheered us up and made us laugh ! |
| 8 | When he felt he had said enough and made us laugh enough , he went back to his dressing room . |
| 9 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 10 | The mosquitoes had already arrived in force and made us feel as if one trench was very much like another . |
| 11 | It pinned us down and made us feel that we could n't not go back without feeling terribly guilty . |
| 12 | This simple observation surprised us and made us change our ways of communicating with social workers . |
| 13 | The Sergeant stood fifty yards away from us and made us repeat those two lines again and again until our voices were hoarse ; as our singing got worse , he became more and more frustrated and threw stones at us . |
| 14 | We were lying on the ground in a row , pointing our rifles to our fronts , as he walked past each of us and made us repeat the different orders that we would be given , such as ‘ unload ’ or ‘ cock your weapon ’ . |
| 15 | The invisible forces brought us together and made us waltz to an unheard tune . |
| 16 | I keep remembering the last night we were here — same hotel and all — and how Matt and I went out and got stinko-paralytico together and ended up doing the Zorba dance and got thrown out and Matt pointing at me and saying to the waiters Hey do n't you recognize Mista Rick from Parkway Peninsula and they did n't and made us pay for the plates . |
| 17 | They went wild and made us promise to come back and give a display , so a few weeks later we returned and gave them the whole show . |
| 18 | Vigno had taken two lumps of granite from the side of the hill and made us keep them in our mouths for three hours . |
| 19 | Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys is scholarly and sympathetic , and makes us feel the growth of Clairmont 's mind . |
| 20 | The idea enters the brain and by being given meaning triggers off a biochemical process which soothes and makes us feel happy . |
| 21 | He does n't just provide us with a general description , he puts forward more significant details and makes us visualise clearly and lets us see for ourselves what it was like . |
| 22 | A picture different from those that we are accustomed to see , unusual and yet true to nature , and for that reason doubly impressive to us , because it startles us , and makes us emerge from our habits . ’ |
| 23 | Yet the fact that up to 40 per cent felt under no compulsion to oblige the local magnates with their votes is revealing , and makes us wonder whether those who polled for the Whigs really did so out of deference or as a result of political conviction . |