Example sentences of "we can make [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ca n't give her what she really wants , poor girl , but at least we can make her look pretty . |
| 2 | But we can make her look part of the magic theme . |
| 3 | With a choice we work perceptually on the alternatives to see if we can make one so attractive that it attracts us to ignore the others ; or we try to make the alternatives so unattractive that we can dismiss them one by one . |
| 4 | And we can make whatever judgments about that we want to , as a group , I wo n't exclude anything Sue . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyhow , ’ Sendei continued , ‘ while we 've got this we can make him do pretty much what we want . ’ |
| 6 | I think what you want to do now , write down a list of what you want him to do and let Steve do that for tomorrow if you can and then let's see if we can make him stick to that list cos otherwise he 'll be here in |
| 7 | Radio waves are useful as we can make them carry information by modulating them — for example , changing the amplitude of the fluctuations so that the change represents information . |
| 8 | By simplifying and emphasizing the features of major strokes we can make them easier to teach but paddle strokes are only copies of the real thing . |
| 9 | Comment If these results seems rather too trivial to bother about , let's see if we can make them more impressive ( and less " obvious " ? ) by stating their conclusions in words : ( i ) The product of the additive identity with any integer always yields the additive identity . |
| 10 | If we give a woman controlled quantities of a substance called human gonadotrophin , we can make her produce ova to order , as it were . |
| 11 | A very prosaic theory proposes that the electrical activity of the brain as we sleep produces the mental equivalent of white noise and that , just as we can make ourselves hear music in white noise , our unconscious can pick out a coherent story from the baffling array of visual images presented to it . |
| 12 | Everything I have seen and heard in the ensuing months reinforces my belief that drift-netting is a manifestation of an attitude which , unchecked , will in due course murder the only planet on which we can make our home . ’ |
| 13 | And during this time I am on the monitor studying the whole thing so that we can make our plans and adjustments for our filming with the real orchestra . |
| 14 | Trent felt her retreat further inside herself as he shouted through the organ howl , ‘ There 's a chance we can make our way upriver . ’ |
| 15 | So you can see that , without professional help , we can make our problems worse , even with the best of intentions . |
| 16 | Because the more we hear from our Customers , the better we can make our service . |
| 17 | Then , once we know Sabrina 's safe we can make our move . |
| 18 | Already in Out the narrator was obsessed with the mind 's capacity for erasing one version of a story and substituting another : ‘ We can make our errors in a thought and reject them in another thought , leaving no trace of error in us ’ ( 51/53 ) . |
| 19 | It is at this point that we can make our first connection with the emphases we have laid out at the beginning of this book . |
| 20 | We can make our ‘ tree diagram ’ grow to look like this : If we then look at this phrase in the context of a longer phrase ‘ twenty places further back ’ , and build up the ‘ further back ’ part in a similar way , we would end up with an even more elaborate structure : |
| 21 | If you are already a diet winner — and , contrary to what the average survey would have us believe , there are lots of you about — then we can make you even more successful . |
| 22 | ‘ We can make you a stretcher , ’ said Grimma . |
| 23 | We can make you one up if you know , you want one . |
| 24 | He is the first Southerner to succeed in New York , and his aides were happily parodying the Sinatra song about the Big Apple : ‘ If we can make it here , we 'll make it anywhere . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Not much traffic if we can make it into the forest , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ No , come on , we can make it ! ’ |
| 27 | If we 're clever we can make it politically concrete . |
| 28 | Paul : We can make it much longer . |
| 29 | ‘ I took her to a little friend 's birthday party yesterday — life when you 're almost two has to go on as near to normal as we can make it . |
| 30 | ‘ With the public acting as our eyes and ears , we can make it more difficult for the IRA to carry out their atrocities . |