Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [conj] make [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sucking the wool and making it damp enhances the lanolin odour , and this keeps the cats contented and fully absorbed in their sucking and chewing . |
| 2 | stings the grass and makes it flowerless , |
| 3 | If you do not feel the tinkling , repeat the hum but make it lower in pitch . |
| 4 | You said , do you actually eat the products that made you allergic Paul ? |
| 5 | I thank the Secretary of State for his statement , and I bitterly regret the circumstances that made it necessary . |
| 6 | VINNY Jones last night sensationally revealed the secrets that make him soccer 's hardest man . |
| 7 | Unlike chlorination , which is designed to treat the water and make it safe to drink , fluoridation is meant to influence a human physiological process — the mineralisation of tooth enamel . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 9 | The balloonists will need the clothes that make them resemble the Michelin man . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that the outflowing rivers provide the sand that makes them good beaches . |
| 11 | ‘ The selectors have made their decisions concerning the squad and nobody is going to knock on my door again unless I recapture the form that made me No 1 . |
| 12 | In urban areas this means protecting the elements that make them attractive , whilst seeking to improve those areas that would benefit from regeneration . |
| 13 | The next stage ( 1925 ) was to increase the pension but make it conditional on having paid certain contributions , which were compulsory below a given income . |
| 14 | I thought I would catch the child and make him my friend before he was old enough to be frightened of my terrible face . |
| 15 | The excessive use of embargoes devalues the practice and makes it more difficult to ensure that the embargo is kept when it is really important . |
| 16 | The nip of alcohol causes the blood vessels to dilate and so warm the skin and make us comfortable in spite of being out in the cold . |
| 17 | They also remove the carbon and make it available to plants as carbon dioxide . |
| 18 | And I mashed the tea and made it and a fitting shop was there too . |
| 19 | At the time the experts believed that a previous transfusion sensitised the patient and made it more likely that a transplant would be rejected . |
| 20 | His owner must not shampoo him while he 's knotty as it will tighten the knots and make them harder to remove . |
| 21 | The chosen shade may lift the picture and make it look more attractive or ruin it totally by clashing or overpowering the design itself . |
| 22 | fills the room and makes us |
| 23 | I feel I should start by defining the question and making it more precise . |
| 24 | The wash of a passing collier rocked both boats and the enormous reverberation of her wailing hooter filled the air and made it impossible for them to speak . |
| 25 | Three little kittens , three little kittens , see how they run , see how they came , along came the father and make it hat , when he put his hat on and said |
| 26 | That fat kid from the Double Deckers who played the tuba and made it look the size of a bag of crisps … what is he up to now ? |
| 27 | It was one thing for Jean-Claude to have had the experiences that made him uniquely suited to interpret Alain-Fournier 's novel ; it was quite another for those experiences to have laid the foundations for a creative , personal life . |
| 28 | There is also a danger that the engineered crops will transfer the gene that makes them resistant to wild plants via pollen , which would force farmers to use ever stronger herbicides , with serious implications for the environment . |
| 29 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 30 | ‘ Bring out ’ deep-set eyes with a paler shadow — obviously darker tints will tend to shade the eye and make it look deeper . |