Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] make [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we have to use the tools and techniques learned through TOP to make it happen . |
| 2 | Millns , who has signed a new five-year contract at Grace Road , was under scrutiny by England manager Micky Stewart during a victory over Essex before a foot injury struck him down , but he can not have done his claims much harm with 5 for 67 to make him — at that time — the country 's leading wicket-taker . |
| 3 | It was the longest afternoon that I had known and it was worse when I heard the sound of tea being prepared downstairs for this made me even more hungry . |
| 4 | Turning to the mirror , she saw herself in the long white silk dress , clinging to her slender body , curving off the shoulders , accentuating her fine collarbones , tight at the waist then flaring out with clouds of taffeta below that made it seem as if she floated rather than walked . |
| 5 | There are no special requirements in relation to the formation of a multi-national partnership — save that all the partners must be either solicitors or RFLs and there must be at least one of each to make it an MNP . |
| 6 | A greater distance from the events of 1680s made it easier for people to develop a nostalgic longing for the return of the exiled Stuarts as the solution to the nation 's ills . |
| 7 | Later , when lucidity returned to him , the recollection of that made him blush and cringe , but at the time he did not care . |
| 8 | … and it does mean that I think there is a pressure perhaps grows out of that to make you articulate clearly why you are putting the course together in the way you are … which previously you could have got away with . |
| 9 | And all of that makes it easier for those who are leading or in control to change the policies and get acceptance . |
| 10 | These were slow to develop , and the realisation of this made it difficult ( even had they wished to do so ) for Ministers to treat them like private sector companies , subject largely to control by fiscal and monetary policies rather than detailed intervention on capital spending . |
| 11 | All of this makes it very attractive for the application which Luck and Swanson have been working on — the construction of switched capacitor filter circuits . |
| 12 | The cut fell on 145 , one over par , and consequently 63 of the original field of 83 made it under what is known as the ‘ 10-stroke rule ’ — anyone who is within 10 shots of the leader , on the theoretical grounds that it is still possible to win from there . |
| 13 | Half of these make it to the training yards , and not all of them , by a long way , will ever make it to a race track . |
| 14 | We need one of these to make it stand up . |
| 15 | Still , three guides out of three made it to the col between the two summits , and two out of three to the summit itself , while only one client out of 15 was present . |
| 16 | So we set some of our comics the toughest challenge of all make us laugh about Maastricht . |
| 17 | Steve says he gets great satisfaction out of it and making one par in a round of 18 makes it worthwhile . |
| 18 | He chose a repayment style mortgage because : ‘ I did n't want any complicated insurance product governing my future — the stock market crash of 1987 made me suspicious of all those sort of schemes . ’ |
| 19 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 20 | His death at the age of twenty-four made him an instant legend . |
| 21 | His starting price of 11–8 made it clear he was strongly fancied by somebody with reliable information . |
| 22 | I 'll just stick in something about footy to make it slightly relevant : |
| 23 | ‘ Bastards like that make me sick , ’ he confided to Thiercelin . |
| 24 | A child 's breathless wailing calmed by the firm slap of the father 's hand , a dead ant revived by the careless press of a passing sole , a wounded finger healed and sealed by the knife 's blade : anything like that made me flinch and veer . |
| 25 | Things like that made them really cagey , hence I was always having to lob people out of the shop if they looked like they were examining the clothes too closely . |
| 26 | I hope you think feeling like that makes you a man . ’ |
| 27 | We were playing with so much arrogance that it needed something like that to make us play . |
| 28 | Very high levels of compression like this make it possible to transmit image data over ordinary dial-up , digital telephone lines rather than expensive , special broadband lines . |
| 29 | Seeing her like this made her more human somehow . |
| 30 | Things like this made him feel his age . |