Example sentences of "makes [pers pn] [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 2 | They do n't get much more out of it than they would from reading a James Bond paperback , but it makes them understand a few of the problems the field men face . |
| 3 | It certainly makes me regard the next car commercial with a new pair of eyes . |
| 4 | Greg Norman , the man who started winning like mad after tossing away The Open at Royal Troon , makes me feel a total failure . |
| 5 | The reassuring cloud of honeysuckle around my front door , as I approach it , suddenly makes me stroke the reassuring beard around my mouth . |
| 6 | ‘ Makes me look a bloody fool . ’ |
| 7 | Makes me look a right cunt dragging me out of the shop let alone . |
| 8 | The storyline at the moment is very good , gripping and makes you watch the next episode . |
| 9 | No he he makes you do an awful lot of things that are really unnecessary . |
| 10 | The one who takes you and makes you do the wicked thing . |
| 11 | This was because Lydia 's red frock bore another message , which went : ‘ This red frock is more chic and expensive than anything which you possess , and it makes you look a provincial old trollop in your mock Chanel suit . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm used to getting a goal every two-and-a-half games , so going four or more without one makes you take a good look at yourself , ’ he says . |
| 13 | ‘ What makes you say a bloody awful thing like that ? ’ |
| 14 | We fly backwards , retracing old tribal routes — dreamed up , or remembered — and into a city walled with honey-coloured stones , where the sage Hanina sends demons home to Hell with their putative tails between their legs , and where King Solomon outwits mighty Ashmodai , Duke of the Underworld , and makes him do the royal bidding like any human flunkey . |
| 15 | If that makes that happen that way what makes it go the opposite way ? |
| 16 | The logic of the Act makes it appear an eccentric indulgence rather than a guarantee of fair procedures . |
| 17 | The rhythmic movement of volumes and planes in space is so basic in Cézanne 's design that it usually extends to the treatment of the background — whether that be sky , wall or drapery — and makes it serve the dual purpose of a screenlike area or space boundary and of a rhythmic sequence of semivoluminous planes which continue the movement of the units in the middleground and foreground ; this sequential ordering thus contributes to compositional unity in the widest sense as well as to the expressive movement of the total form . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is the distinctiveness of this particular anatomical colour that makes us forget the pure white quartzites that also occur at this level , even in our own Midlands ( as the Stiperstones Quartzite of west Shropshire ) . |
| 19 | In this case you should offer a GLOSS ( i.e. an explanation or paraphrase ) , as in the following example ( the gloss is italicised ) : In these lines of the poem , the " structural parallelism " , or equivalence of grammatical structure between the two phrases , makes us consider the two phrases synonymous . |