Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] the [noun] make [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stapleton had the idea of buying a huge hound , and of using the phosphorus to make it shine like the hound in the story . |
| 2 | The cost of cooling the memory makes it uneconomical for small systems , but it would be feasible in large memories . |
| 3 | But the lingering memory of the ghostly horse and a nervousness which could n't be denied at the thought of meeting the Danbys made her feel more than a little awkward . |
| 4 | Bob , another way of involving the audience making them feel part of it |
| 5 | One theory about these openings is that they were Nature 's way of lightening the head to make it more flexible and manoeuvrable : shattered archosaur skulls might be proof of this . |
| 6 | It only remains to add that although I have no doubt that Hugh correctly identified the ‘ search ’ of the Canterbury monks with the process of forgery , it is quite possible , indeed probable , that at various times during the previous fifty years individual members of the community had made experiments in altering the documents to make them more effective . |
| 7 | Few imagined at this stage the scale and speed of the German victories which overwhelmed western Europe in the spring and early summer , culminating in such a comprehensive defeat of the old enemy , the French , in June , and prompting the toadying Field Marshal Keitel to declare that Hitler 's strategic brilliance in preparing the campaign made him ‘ the greatest military commander of all time ’ . |
| 8 | As the intervention system remains entirely in place , and as the Community has not decided to try to make savings by reforming the system to make it less attractive , it seemed to us to be the wrong way to tackle the problem . |