Example sentences of "if you can make " in BNC.
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| 1 | See if you can make contact with it , this magical thing called Englishness . |
| 2 | If you can make use of natural or artificial time-cues ( such as daylight or traffic noise ) then so much the better . |
| 3 | ‘ If you can make a film that makes its money back , you can justify making another . ’ |
| 4 | You do n't want to go to the police , because you 're afraid they 'll simply get involved in another siege — if you can make them believe you in time , which seems doubtful . |
| 5 | Let's see if you can make it all the way to the front door before Rosie gets you . |
| 6 | ‘ But see if you can make me ! ’ |
| 7 | If you can make a bad orchestra tolerable , that is valuable . |
| 8 | If you can make her laugh , they say , you 're half-way there . |
| 9 | If you can make her laugh while you 're coming in her mouth , then you might be said to have arrived . |
| 10 | Do n't try to cut his parents out of your lives , see if you can make visiting them a pleasure rather than a duty . |
| 11 | This is an important area in which you can help him a great deal if you can make him feel that with you open grieving is permissible . |
| 12 | When searching for the right adjective , bear in mind that your effect on the reader will be stronger if you can create physical sensation , if you can make the reader conjure up a colour , a texture , a smell or a sound , rather than using a word like ‘ soothing ’ , or ‘ lovely ’ or ( worst of all ) ‘ evocative ’ . |
| 13 | If you can make out the lyrics — and it 's difficult enough to find a song in this aural tirade — you 'll be subconsciously ordered to slaughter small children on the bus home . |
| 14 | Without a doubt , if you can make the journey from where you live , the very best thing to do is to visit the Trial Grounds of the National Rose Society at St Albans , Herts , — the Mecca of the rose — where you will be able to get as much information as you want , and straight answers from knowledgeable staff . |
| 15 | Cover the bloom with a polythene bag — or better , if you can make them up , fine muslin bags that will let the air in but keep the insects out . |
| 16 | If you can make do with a 200Mb IDE drive , the price drops to £1,940 . |
| 17 | An example might be to focus on car number plates and seeing if you can make a word containing all the letters of the plate number , or in a supermarket look out for all items costing a particular amount of money , or in a crowded room noting the number of people with blue eyes . |
| 18 | If such problems do occur it will be necessary to reduce the fish numbers , getting rid of the excess to friends or neighbours who have a pond , or , if you can make the necessary arrangements , to a local aquatic shop . |
| 19 | yes and if you can make somebody think from your writing well that 's good . |
| 20 | erm and now see if you can make sense of it . |
| 21 | If you can make up your mind what you want to eat then there is a unique goal . |
| 22 | Come and see if you can make him calmer , please ! ’ |
| 23 | But in a d within the next day or so , perhaps over the weekend , if you can make your notes about what this was Put it in your own words , what was happening here . |
| 24 | But the converse is that if you can make it work you 'll have bought a fair lease on a prime site that you could never have afforded in the ordinary way . |
| 25 | Not only do you have to complete lines of blocks , without leaving gaps but if you can make the numbers , which are displayed on each part of a block , add up to the target figure you get a bonus and a bomb . |
| 26 | really I mean what you 're almost sort of presiding over is a sort of steady decline , really , but on the other hand I think some people think if you can make that as erm as sort of dignified as you can and actually give them sort of support when they actually need it , |
| 27 | If you go in there and stay perfectly still you 'll see numerous varieties — and if you can make it before daylight you 'll be almost deafened by a dawn chorus . |
| 28 | ‘ If you can make me understand that , I stand a better chance of helping to get you the money to find it , ’ Waldegrave said . |
| 29 | Analysis and interpretation of structures in a text are useful if you can make something of them — if , for instance , you can say something new on the basis of having identified a rhyme pattern . |
| 30 | * Analysing the structure of a text is useful only if you can make something of it , such as linking it with something else about the text in a correlation or causal relation ( see p. 53 ) . |