Example sentences of "[vb -s] to make it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
| 2 | ‘ I try to suggest , to an actor , something in the scene other than what appears to make it move on the surface . ’ |
| 3 | Playing with a puppy for a period beforehand often helps to make it want to sleep at night . |
| 4 | Insistence on this in the early stages of use helps to make it become simply a good habit . |
| 5 | A steel frame , bolted together , which can be finished in a matter of months , before the Armenian winter sets in with temperatures of 40 degrees below freezing , it 's the brainchild of a school consultancy from Gloucester , but it 's taken agreement between Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher at today 's Downing Street talks to make it happen . |
| 6 | I suppose the organization which fails to make it happen is best characterized by a lack of truthfulness and openness . |
| 7 | Instead of trying to break up the real shape of the animal , it attempts to make it appear flatter than it is . |