Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 2 | That evening one of the Corporals made me clean out the crow 's cage ; I lifted the large black bird out and parked it on the gravel beside a flowerbed . |
| 3 | The extra weight and clothing was to help me get used to the combined effect of heat and exertion , but it made me look twice the man I was ! |
| 4 | She could n't think what had made her blurt out the goading words . |
| 5 | He 'd applauded politely at the end of every number , but seemed totally unmoved , and somehow that had made her try all the harder , as though it were imperative that she reach him . |
| 6 | The God who had made him get off the trike and stand still at the side of the grassily banked hill . |
| 7 | By grossly exaggerating the victim 's treatment of the accused in order to gain sympathy for the latter he had instead made it seem all the more likely that he had meant to kill . |
| 8 | That it was at the seaside made it seem all the worse . |
| 9 | But a perverse urge to take advantage of his rare willingness to be seen out with her made her bite back the words , and she went off to discard her shorts in favour of a slim straight dress , the fine cotton-knit a subtle sage green . |
| 10 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
| 11 | Once in , it seemed nothing , absolutely nothing , could make her give up the job she loved . |
| 12 | The way Eleanor exuded rude health made him feel all the weaker . |
| 13 | Binding me with his confidences , he said that the wonderfully athletic , Aryan rear view of Steffi Graf made him understand how the camp inmates could believe they were indeed Untermenschen in relation to the SS . |
| 14 | " He 's been shaking like this ever since he was sixteen years old , " the Keraing told us , " when he first had the experience which made him take up the profession . |
| 15 | That 's what made it seem all the more strange when she turned in on herself , so to speak , in the end . ’ |
| 16 | Of course , limits can channel brilliance productively , make it blaze all the more fiercely . |
| 17 | But do they make us pay over the odds ? |
| 18 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |
| 19 | A very dark bird nearby makes me put up the 'scope again and I am surprised to find it is a common scoter , not at all common in Whalfirth Voe . |
| 20 | Yeah It makes you wonder where the hell he can put them . |
| 21 | You do in a swimming pool because what happens to you , it makes you keep up the top does n't it ? |
| 22 | He is the motor of the whole musical action ; he must guide , hold back , or animate the GENERAL ENSEMBLE ; his task is , by a certain skill in movement which strongly imprints both rhythm and character in every ear , to make it understood where the phrase begins , where it develops , and where it ends … it will be difficult , my friend , to replace that intelligent maître de musique , Rey … |
| 23 | What makes it look all the more daft is that they will often have to wear the same number tabard all the way through , which over top hat and tails makes them look like someone wearing his vest over his dinner jacket . |