Example sentences of "they [adv] make " in BNC.

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1 They mostly make you talk . ’
2 For example after their early years in Britain , Sikh women were allowed to go to work but even after all these years of earning a wage they rarely make , or are consulted about , decisions made about money .
3 Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals .
4 The problem with these ‘ lowlier ‘ buildings is that when they come under threat they rarely make the news .
5 In addition , companies pay taxes on any profits they eventually make , as well as dish out dividends to shareholders .
6 Life is full of them , but they only make sense when you look back on them .
7 The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it .
8 These publications are very valuable , even when they require correction , but they only make up a tiny part of the huge body of statistical information now available in print .
9 They only make the problem worse in certain areas , not least in Scotland .
10 They only make love on the twenty-ninth of February , ’ said Hyacinth , ‘ and then only when it rains . ’
11 Thus one exalts facts , the other the imagination ; both conceal the extent to which they necessarily make use of the other 's procedures .
12 The remainder comes mostly from the countries around the Mediterranean , but what the original almond growers lack in quantity they apparently make up for in quality .
13 If they just make a straight currency exchange , they will still be liable for the yen interest payments .
14 They just make indie music because they 're middle class teenagers who want to get rid of a bit of angst and I do n't think that is what Curve are about .
15 They just make these conditions appear simpler .
16 They just make me nervous .
17 If they just make it totally private where everybody has to pay
18 they just make you feel so inadequate .
19 'cos I hate it when they just make
20 Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness .
21 The question is not whether they can fill in a simple series of figures , but whether they fully understand the implications of the choices they thus make .
22 They thus make a ‘ transition to chaos ’ as the parameters are varied .
23 Although judges should approve it before it is made , they normally make no enquiries and allow the parties to say whatever they like .
24 It 's like that , I hate it when they fucking make cartoons about all kinds of shit like you know Rambo ?
25 The opposite problem is experienced by those who are lacking in confidence , who feel that they should not worry other people with their problems and who , if they finally make an appointment , tend to rush through it and come away without covering all the points with which they had really hoped to deal .
26 If you really want to be energetic , there 's windsurfing and waterskiing here or you can stroll along the beach to where they still make wooden Turkish boats by hand .
27 Okay , one or two of them are a little contrived , but they still make for a cracking package — all in one load too !
28 ‘ Charmer Nigel is A Real Rotter ! ’ — and they still make him wince .
29 While they frequently acknowledge that language may be used to perform many communicative functions , they nonetheless make the general assumption that the most important function is the communication of information .
30 I 've got to decide what I 'm going to say to Mum and Dad — I 've got to picture them , feel what they always make me feel like and somehow change it … speak to them like speaking to a dream , make it my dream instead of their dream …
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