Example sentences of "to make it [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carnelian must know special runes to inscribe around the eye-screen and arcane litanies to incant , to make it serve this two-way purpose , which perhaps had been the true purpose of the device in the first place … |
| 2 | Identify what you want it to do , learn how to make it do that , ignore everything else . |
| 3 | First he sketched an arabesque design on the dress in white to make it appear décolleté , then he covered her dress with magnificent , multi-coloured flowers and finally sprayed his design with fixative . |
| 4 | The shape of this 30ft by 45ft design seemed to make it appear wider and not all features could be seen at first glance . |
| 5 | A statement may be made in writing , orally or even by contract , for example , by making the goods tell a lie about themselves as in the case where the seller patched up a crack in the barrel of a cannon so as to make it appear unfractured , Horsfall v. Thomas ( 1862 ) . |
| 6 | So I think they 're right to be suspicious , and it 's right for those people who feel they have a role it 's up to them to make it appear interesting and to show them the relevance . |
| 7 | Instead of trying to break up the real shape of the animal , it attempts to make it appear flatter than it is . |
| 8 | As it happens , the bass part has been designed so that the result is relatively consonant and relaxed , but it would have been equally easy ( as we have shown above ) to make it contribute more dissonance and tension : |
| 9 | To make it sit still , sit up and oblige , because it is smaller than you and you can compel it , is unkind . |
| 10 | Wanting someone , like he wanted Kelly Connor , was no novelty to Jack — hardly a day passed when it did n't happen to him — but a quick telephone call and a Suzi or a Debra , one of his sexual Samaritans , would be there to make it feel better . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you think God would give me the vision and no way to make it come true ? |
| 12 | I mean if you belong to a church you do something to make it look tidy do n't you ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 14 | I staggered back , partly to make it look good on the off chance there was somebody watching and partly because letting go of the winch had put me off balance . |
| 15 | miles away , off campus , you know , they have n't got to make it look good |
| 16 | And when the pair went to a recent wedding , Sir Charles spray-painted an old gran 's hat for Lady Jeannie to make it look new . |
| 17 | The trick apparently is to make it look ordinary without it actually being so . |
| 18 | I love the songs they write for me and I try to make it look that way in the style in which I deliver it , ’ she added modestly . |
| 19 | Bill and Rita had always wanted a Victorian house — they used to live in a 1930s semi and spent four years trying to make it look Victorian . |
| 20 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 21 | To make it look right so |
| 22 | Now Saint Marcus had to put all that lot together to make it look right and make it make sense , with hindsight , bringing all the important pieces together . |
| 23 | Although he had the pride and the carriage to make it look easy , he was often terrified . |
| 24 | But the effect on the host warbler is not , of course , just to make it look ridiculous — the bird that rears the parasitic fledgling will fail to rear young of its own . |
| 25 | She poked a finger into the luggage beneath her eyes , stretching the skin , trying to make it look young again . |
| 26 | All we 've done is to make it look nice inside with our furniture , our pictures and our paintings and so on . ’ |
| 27 | Yeah , I should get one that yeah page ten , it says return to your letter and essentially i it tells you all the various formatting options that you want to apply to your document to make it look neat and tidy . |
| 28 | To make it look light and fresh , the swiss roll has to be made from scratch in Alan 's well equipped kitchen . |
| 29 | No effort had been made to make it look homely at all . |
| 30 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |