Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] that [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His daughter stayed close to me to make sure that nobody hurt me . |
| 2 | Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores . |
| 3 | They must have wrecked the car to make sure that I understood they meant business . ’ |
| 4 | Summarize what the candidate said to make sure that I got it right ? |
| 5 | He seems to have known enough about ordinary medicine — and perhaps still have had the contacts within the profession — to make sure that I got my inoculations and injections at the correct times in my life , despite my official non-existence as far as the National Health Service is concerned . |
| 6 | She had yearned for a glimpse of him , and had wanted to tell him about Lovat herself , to make sure that he understood her reasons . |
| 7 | lasted quite a period of time because they wanted to make sure that he knew what he was doing and everything |
| 8 | Her story was as before , but Myeloski wanted to make sure that he missed nothing . |
| 9 | Tony Jacklin had won the 1960 Open and the 1970 US Open , and his huge British following was going to make sure that he did what they 'd hoped he 'd do in 1970 at St Andrews , and win the 1971 Open at Birkdale . |
| 10 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 11 | ‘ Hope is all any of us has now , ’ said Julia carefully choosing her words to make certain that they meant what she wanted them to mean . |