Example sentences of "he [modal v] make [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may make me feel desolate , make my spirits sink , hide my future from me … still … |
| 2 | He has warned me he 'll make me suffer for it . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , he 'll make me look a hundred and three , ’ said Lucy . |
| 4 | The beast by candle-light ; the trip to bed where all the things you would n't do , have n't done , are things he 'll make you do , and things you 'll want ; and then the beast 's departure , out on his own , still smelling your smell but looking for fresh tracks . |
| 5 | If you go to Siward , he 'll make you fight , too . |
| 6 | He might make me come back to London , and I could n't bear it . |
| 7 | It was all very pleasant , and Cassie began to remember what she had all but forgotten : Just what good company Ben was , and how much he could make her laugh . |
| 8 | By gum , he could make them go ! |
| 9 | And if the pieces were in place — the right words , above all , and then the right part — he could make it work . |
| 10 | Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will . |
| 11 | He could make you feel machinery . |
| 12 | He could make you laugh by looking at him . |
| 13 | Jesus , he 'd make them pay . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd make her cry . |
| 15 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 16 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 17 | ‘ Simon reckoned he 'd adored you for years and that he intended to be that boyfriend , and he 'd make it happen by ensuring the two of you were together as much as possible . |
| 18 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 19 | He would make them pay . |
| 20 | If Gina was pleasant to him she could share ; if not , he would make them last for two meals . |
| 21 | Opening Poole 's letter on a visit to Bristol City Library , he began at once to write the first of two wildly intemperate replies : the country round Iron Acton was ‘ intolerably flat ’ ; Bristol contained no friends of his beyond Cottle and Estlin ( Wade was going away ) ; and as for the cottage , he would make it do . |
| 22 | Ladies and gentlemen , he would say , Ladies and gentlemen , now it gives me very great pleasure to introduce the woman who is responsible for holding this whole show together ; the woman who first understood all those years ago that there was crying need for a place where all you lovely people could gather of an evening , the one that we all know and love , and so … would you please welcome on stage , the very lovely , the very talented … once again … our very own … and sometimes he would fade out , and not even say her name , and he would pause , he would make us wait , he would suspend his elegant hands over the keys ; and then , in that silence , he would play the first notes of the actual song itself . |
| 23 | He can make me depend on him . |
| 24 | The child who has been moving boats and other objects that float on the surface of the water , suddenly discovers that he can make them sink by holding them down or pouring water on top of them . |
| 25 | But he calls it a world , and he 's such a good writer that he can make it seem like one . |
| 26 | Our unfortunate young friend seems to know the principle , whether he can make it work or not . ’ |
| 27 | He can make you believe you are the only woman on earth for him , and only a Frenchman out of all the men in the world could look at me and tell me to my face that I am beautiful . |
| 28 | He can make us do anything he wants . |