Example sentences of "that makes [pron] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The item that makes everyone tick at PE also lies within the former gunnery hall , but it has been receiving attention since its arrival — within the hold of a Safair L–100 Hercules . |
| 2 | It 's the promise of guns that makes them co-operate with Midwinter . |
| 3 | I do n't want to ‘ politicize ’ the homeless in a way that makes them look like the front-line infantry fighting a barbaric government , which is a line some people have taken , simply because when you 're out there , it just is n't like that . |
| 4 | The thing that makes me believe in God is that there 's a special kind of weather on Sundays . |
| 5 | Sometimes I will have abandoned a painting , got really tired of it and feel it 's not getting anywhere , and you will come and make some remark that makes me look at it again and think : oh yes , I could just pull that one together . |
| 6 | I have a folding mac that makes me look like a haystack in the rain , I have an umbrella that would fit most of Dublin under it . ’ |
| 7 | God that makes me look like a good player that , does n't it ? |
| 8 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 9 | So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution . |
| 10 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 11 | She barely has time to recover before Nina Myskow breezes in with a smile that makes her look like a 10-year-old ( a ten-year-old Stilton , that is ) , hurls her customary , ‘ Hello , you old bag , ’ and her reflection kisses the air beside my cheek . |
| 12 | ‘ What can happen in one 's middle-fifties one can be bugged by something they say that makes you react as if you are six . |
| 13 | Q What is it your child does and says that makes you refer to his/her actions/words as a temper tantrum ? |
| 14 | They have the highest income-tax and VAT rates , the harshest drinking laws , the dreariest bars , the dullest restaurants and television that makes you feel as if you are warming up for a coma . |
| 15 | ( When you feel really happy these days , what sort of thing is it that makes you feel like that ? ) |
| 16 | THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on . |
| 17 | ‘ Cake ’ craftily samples Kate Bush and is the sort of subtle start that makes you pant for more . |
| 18 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 19 | The more usual alternative however is to explain our discovery as being due to a certain causal process , something within us that makes us behave in a certain way . |
| 20 | It 's the kind of angle that makes us look at the space of the room that 's being photographed and the arrangement of objects in the room rather than the subjective viewpoint of the picture taker — recalling the very beginnings of photography when it was a simple recording device , and before it was considered a means of expression , when it sometimes did n't strive to imitate painting . |
| 21 | The caterpillar of a Costa Rican moth , in one of the most extraordinary of all mimicries , has a pattern at its rear end that makes it look like a tiny viper . |
| 22 | So it 's all part of the same sentence that makes it come into the head at that point . |
| 23 | Firstly , they bind a piece of writing together as a single entity , giving it a connectedness that makes it read as a whole rather than as a string of separate jottings . |