Example sentences of "make [pron] [vb infin] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 2 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 3 | Then he made me look at the windows . |
| 4 | He has made me look at the world again , made me see things I had never seen before , and see familiar things in a new light . |
| 5 | Nicholas Soames , the aristocratically toned and booming Tory MP for Crawley , can still make him stumble at the despatch box by muttering ‘ Another G and T , Giovanni ’ . |
| 6 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
| 7 | In the dressing room before kick-off , Ian wo n't need anyone to dangle pieces of raw meat in front of him and make him strain at the leash because he 'll be bursting to get stuck into the Turks more than anyone . |
| 8 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose you 're planning to make me foam at the mouth and gabble in obsolete tongues . ’ |
| 10 | It is the life force within us that is the cause of that denial , which makes it impossible for the healthy to imagine a time when it will have faded , which makes them tremble at the thought that , were voluntary euthanasia ever legalized , abuse would inevitably follow , and when they became old and ill , they would be at risk of being put away . |
| 11 | Close inspection makes one marvel at the intricate perfection of nature opposed to the finest fashion houses . |
| 12 | He had to touch her arm to make her look at the programme . |
| 13 | It 's the kind of angle that makes us look at the space of the room that 's being photographed and the arrangement of objects in the room rather than the subjective viewpoint of the picture taker — recalling the very beginnings of photography when it was a simple recording device , and before it was considered a means of expression , when it sometimes did n't strive to imitate painting . |