Example sentences of "[conj] make [pers pn] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a secret that made her even more different , because now that people were saying that she was turning into the dark beauty her mother had been , she knew much more about why men and women made babies , that it was n't because it was a duty to God but because they enjoyed it ; and seeing him in church every week , noticing that his voice was going deep and that her own body was changing too and that they were becoming man and woman made her think about him and long for him more and more : she wanted to have him completely , entirely for herself . |
| 2 | ‘ So you 've gone off chocolates , ’ he remarked with a glint in his eye that made her even more wary . |
| 3 | It was a command that made her even more resentful . |
| 4 | Rachel had always enjoyed being a woman , and delighted in her femininity , her sex appeal , the differences that made her so intensely female . |
| 5 | So I was abnormal — a sort of mini Dracula or Frankenstein 's monster , and that made me even more guilty . |
| 6 | I was clearly a bad child and that made me even more guilty . |
| 7 | But it was a temporary setback that made him even more determined to achieve his boyhood dream . |
| 8 | Rosen eked out a conversation with her and without Leon Kennedy , who was sewn into an isolation that made him more powerfully present . |
| 9 | The voice purred with a fury that made it no less memorable . |
| 10 | Once more the Cult of Luxury began to spread , this time cloaked in a secrecy that made it even more attractive to jaded Elf aristocrats . |
| 11 | And er that hurt and that made you much more determined to improve and be able to make a proper load as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | As we shall see in more detail in the next chapter , there are many features of such conditions that make them quite obviously inimical to the creative act . |
| 13 | " You think that make it all right — if no one know ? " |
| 14 | In consequence , there are many single wavenumber patterns , some of them of a complexity that makes them not instantly recognizable as such ; for example , one of them is a hexagonal pattern rather like Fig. 4.9 . |
| 15 | They have taken a long hard look at the way Japanese firms operate and tried to understand what it is that makes them so much more productive and successful . |
| 16 | He said ‘ You do n't look well , ’ to her once , meaning to be sympathetic , but she clouted him and said , ‘ It is living with an old man that makes me not well . |
| 17 | ‘ So I guess that makes me pretty much an Aussie ! |
| 18 | ‘ What job is it you have here that makes you so much more likely than the rest of your family to attain a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , if I 'm a peeping Tom that makes us about even , would n't you say ? ’ |
| 20 | And of course that 's substan makes that compounded up that makes it even more . |
| 21 | Well , if Dr Warner was reading it correctly , then that makes it even more private than ever , because it would mean my mother 's been lying , she must have some secret to hide . |
| 22 | The latter falls off more rapidly , indicating that the turbulence changes in a way that makes it relatively less efficient as a heat transfer mechanism than as a momentum transfer mechanism . |
| 23 | erm I think in terms of techniques is is is a level of awareness really , to be able to respond to children erm with their curiosity and with their erm expressions of anxiety erm in a way that makes it all right for them to be feeling the way they are , and I do n't think it 's simple as just saying a technique , I think it 's what we can offer as adults comes from an inner awareness that we have as adults , that we can convey to our children , because it 's not just the techniques , or the behaviour , or the words that we use , but it 's those feelings behind the words . |
| 24 | Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that Salmonella typhimurium , a bacterium that causes diarrhoea , survives for much longer than three weeks , but in a dormant state that makes it much more difficult to detect . |
| 25 | In addition , they can shorten the child 's attention span and make him more easily frustrated — and this in turn leads to a poorer performance in school . |
| 26 | The two men struck a deal and subsequently Trevaskis took a 50 per cent partnership in a new company to import ‘ Laura Ashley ’ fabrics and make them up locally according to agreed patterns and styles . |
| 27 | These taxes are surely indefensible , because they are not only unproductive to the country , but actually put up the costs of producing our goods and make them less attractively priced for the overseas market . |
| 28 | In view of the understandable difficulty that this inelegant and complex piece of legislation presented to these people , one must stand in awe at what one Member , Sir Michael Havers , had the temerity to say at the Third Reading of the Bill : ‘ One of the great ambitions of successive Parliaments is to simplify the laws that they pass and make them more readily understood . ’ |
| 29 | Look at the words of the hymns , glance at the dates and link them in with the theories we have discussed , and I can promise you that it will all make a little more sense and make it even more evident how our hymn-writers wrestled with the meaning of the cross . |
| 30 | Work started in January on a £20 million programme of improvements at Stirling Castle , designed to restore the historic fabric of the castle and make it even more interesting for visitors . |