Example sentences of "to make [pers pn] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashamed of having frightened me , he looked at me sweetly and began to sing Italian songs to make me forget the incident ’ . |
| 2 | This was enough to make me forget the abstract art of 1912–13 ! ’ |
| 3 | I smiled and her eyes smiled back enough to make me think the ice could just possibly melt there under the right circumstances . |
| 4 | But even allowing for that trait of nature , the number of occasions on which both Conservatives and Labour politicians have told me they are doing better than the polls say is now large enough to make me sniff the air suspiciously . |
| 5 | It 's just I do n't feel the need to have them round me any more , and I think that suits them and it 's silly to make them pretend the contrary . ’ |
| 6 | It would be wrong to make them pay the price of justice — although this might nudge us into remembering that innocent wives and children and other dependents are made to suffer when the state imprisons thousands of working-class men for crimes which are often insignificant compared with corporate crimes . |
| 7 | But too much mist obscures the question what it is like to be a chimp for even the best-meaning efforts to make them make the best of meaning . |
| 8 | The appearance of a hawk-like bird may provide just the encouragement the potential hosts need to make them abandon the nest for a while and take cover elsewhere . |
| 9 | The idea that something so apparently soft and harmless has pain-inflicting daggers on the ends of the feet is enough to disturb certain infants and to make them distrust the approaches of all felines . |
| 10 | Businessmen still referred to the O-level , he said , and it would be difficult to make them understand the new way and ensure all attainment levels , from the beginning of the National Curriculum at the age of seven to the end at 16 , were fair and consistent . |
| 11 | One of them asked another if he remembered how the Magistrate Sahib had tried to make them strengthen the embankments and this caused such merriment that one of the landowners almost fell into the water . |
| 12 | She wants to make you feel the cheapest ever Spryly She-She left the room . |
| 13 | Nevertheless it all sounded pretty convincing , so much so that you came out wondering whether that persistent zit on your face was n't the result of bad diet , but actually something implanted by alien beings , determined for their own mysterious purposes to make you suffer the social embarrassment of a bad complexion . |
| 14 | I wanted to make you suffer the way I was suffering . |
| 15 | ‘ I did it because I wanted to make you look the way you do now . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The aim is to make you look the best and capture it on film . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If I 'd known why it mattered so much to you I 'd have tried harder to make you accept the truth , ’ she said , yielding to her own regrets for a moment . |
| 18 | But this is not a work of criticism , nor an attempt to make you like The Faerie Queene or the Confessio Amantis . |
| 19 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 20 | But her plan to make him sing the Neil Diamond song Nobody Brings Me Flowers live on air fell through . |
| 21 | All the activity around his earth , and the fact that there were a mere three hounds , had combined to make him think the open country might be safer today ; now they 'd given him proof that it was n't . |
| 22 | They carted him like a scarecrow , his heels scoring the gravel , but he was as stubborn as a pig in a cart , he would never squeal without a hard prod ; Donald Stewart the blacksmith had to grip his wrist to make him sign the paper . |
| 23 | He does not require an imperative to make him avoid the sickness from the thought of which he already shrinks in nausea ; what he has to force himself to do is hold on to the fact that sickness is the likely outcome of yielding to temptation . |
| 24 | Although Harry tried to be tender and attentive at first , Ann sensed from the start that he did n't really love her , and that she would never be able to make him forget the great hurt he had suffered by losing Martha . |
| 25 | Gesner groped for a suave exit line , something to make him feel the star of Hochhauser again , but the four serious faces were all staring at him blankly , totally devoid of any warmth or admiration . |
| 26 | It takes a lot of gratuitous cruelty perpetrated in the name of dogma to make him criticize the Party , as when the ‘ Attack the Evil Winds of Capitalism Team ’ tells the old peasant Guo Lao-da to kill the six ‘ capitalist ’ ducks he owns . |
| 27 | Only seven years later the pope recovered this stone in the new tiara presented to him to make him look the part while anointing Napoleon as self-crowned Emperor . |
| 28 | Long before Quex died , however , Edward Carrington had discovered better reasons than inter-service rivalry and backstabbing to make him doubt the quality of the organization he had been so proud to join . |
| 29 | But to do so in this way was to make her appear the villain of the piece . |
| 30 | You would n't reduce the batteries to reverse it to make it go the other way . |