Example sentences of "[prep] it make " in BNC.

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1 Even if they got to the superleague then were repeatedly humiliated 6 nil I would be happy despite it making them yet more money .
2 In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end .
3 Just the thought of it made him feel unclean .
4 Not one word of it made any sense at all to him .
5 When she breast-fed him , which she still did though he was now a year old , the comfort of it made her weep and in weeping she felt happier .
6 It was , in fact , the work of his son , William , and Miller comments ‘ I was first favoured by this sort by Mr. Peter Collinson , FRS and afterwards received a plant with a drawing of it made in the country where it grows , by Mr. John Bartram , JR , and have since been furnished with more plants by Dr. Benzel of Germantown in Philadelphia , who found it growing plentifully in shady , moist places . ’
7 Steam power finally gave way to electricity by the mid-1950s and in 1977 , the mill was completely gutted and re-equipped with modern machinery , much of it made locally by Simon-Barron of Gloucester .
8 None of it made any sense .
9 But none of it made any difference .
10 Her massive bosom was heaving in and out and the splash of water down the front of it made a dark wet patch that had probably soaked right through to her skin .
11 He did not say , but looked , that the sight of it made him feel sick .
12 The sight of it made him whimper like a child and fall to his knees again .
13 The size of the camp when they came in sight of it made Rostov 's eyes widen with surprise .
14 I could get back to base via that loft … but the thought of it made my scalp wriggle .
15 When the pain lanced into his back , the shock of it made him cry out loud … and he knew that he had n't been dreaming .
16 Laura , knowing how much this vehicle meant to Bernard , had a miniature of it made for her husband , which he kept in his office .
17 The moon , the mountains , the man — himself — standing there in the darkness : none of it made sense to him .
18 I think it was then I tried to work out her relationship to Gómez , but the complexity of it made it difficult to grasp .
19 None of it made any sense !
20 The sheer effrontery of it made her gulp her fiery mouthful unthinkingly , and for a moment she was doubly speechless .
21 It was the first time she had been alone with him since last night and the thought of it made her fluttery inside .
22 Oh , heavens , just the thought of it made her feel positively puttyfied .
23 She sighed , wondering why the mere thought of it made her feel depressed , then she turned to Silas and said hastily , ‘ So there 's no need for you to worry about taking me to see a kiwi .
24 Holly and ivy , the green leaves of winter … the thought of it made Tallis sing the carol , and Wynne-Jones joined in , adding his cracking voice to the melancholy memory of Christmas festivity .
25 In the relatively affluent days of the 70s and early 80s leisure centres , squash courts and swimming pools sprang up all over the place , much of it made available through international funds .
26 None of it made sense .
27 In his summing up the judge said that the co-defendant 's plea of guilty was not the issue and the jury knew of it to make the background accurate .
28 I knew that soon I would have to come to grips with what had happened , to wring some meaning out of it to make it endurable ; but for the moment I simply could n't bear to think about it .
29 I want to read all of it to make sure that it appears in Hansard .
30 Zenith disassembles Acme 's program and re-writes parts of it to make its program , perhaps using a different computer language — definite infringement of copyright ( the act of disassembly itself will constitute an infringement of copyright ) .
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