Example sentences of "[noun pl] to make them [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had to frighten kids to make them behave , but there was no need to scare them too much . |
| 2 | You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . |
| 3 | The warriors hurled themselves at the heads or horns of their animals to make them lie down . |
| 4 | ‘ Those things must have implanted some sort of image in their mind , stimulated the right emotions to make them do it . ’ |
| 5 | The idea is to pick up individual blocks , move them around and drop them next to matching blocks to make them disappear . |
| 6 | For a start , some brands of diesel now have additives to make them smell sweeter . |
| 7 | I could see her English neighbour shutting her front door in our faces , and yet all the same we left the two children there , rushing away after I 'd pinched their cheeks to make them cry so that she 'd have to come out to them . |
| 8 | But too much mist obscures the question what it is like to be a chimp for even the best-meaning efforts to make them make the best of meaning . |
| 9 | Where the Government propose alternatives to custody , they must provide the resources to make them work . |
| 10 | She used to get angry and go and pull the bedclothes off Anthony and his friends to make them get up and get out . |
| 11 | Monty recognized the trauma of drug addiction that Monroe suffered , both of them relying heavily on barbiturates to make them sleep . |
| 12 | Since Jews deviated further than most other groups from the blueprint he had in mind , he needed to take particularly strong measures to make them conform to it . |
| 13 | One of the reasons I think why abuse is very easily erm got away with by people is that um they 're able to bring into play a lot of these a lot of these discourses with which we talk to children to make them behave , to make them er compliant . |
| 14 | Conversely , Orientals and Africans rarely mutilate their pets for cosmetic purposes , but the trimming of puppies ears of certain breeds to make them stand erect or the breaking and subsequent resetting of the tails of American saddle-bred horses is , or was until very recently , a common practice in American dog and horse-show circles . |
| 15 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 16 | Crushed eggshells were mixed with scouring agents to make them go further and pot scour scourers were made from old silk stockings crocheted into squares . |
| 17 | HOSPITAL nurses fighting plans to make them wear ordinary clothes instead of uniform are to meet to consider taking action . |
| 18 | Lamont says he has no plans to make them pay |
| 19 | This heat is in effect waste energy from the chemical reactions which occur inside the muscle cells to make them work . |
| 20 | Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein . |