Example sentences of "you [verb] make [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Why would you want to make it such a crisis ?
2 Do you want to make it possible to rear a race of supermen ?
3 Well do you want to make , do you want to make it plus one ?
4 ‘ What do you think made you feel funny the last time ? ’
5 " But whatever do you think made you faint ?
6 But he was very sick so er they wanted somebody to stay with him overnight at any rate so I , he was n't sleeping , and I , he said what , I said to him , what do you think made you sick ?
7 What do you think made him change his mind in the end ?
8 That 's what you want to make me .
9 You want to make me your mistress !
10 The majority of the letters lend themselves to design shapes , the only problems occurring with such letters as E. If you want to make them really small , the shape will have to be worked in tiny flowers to accommodate all the different angles clearly and give the letter sufficient definition .
11 The whole walk took in excess of nine hours , so not one to consider if you want to make it home in time for Blind Date .
12 If , on the other hand , you want to make it more likely that there will be agreement to your idea then the next behaviour is a safer bet .
13 Well I 'm actually gon na be the person servicing this return Policy Officer , this retired services group so , if you want to make it , either a person to raise you want to get out .
14 Cos you know this list is as good or as bad you want to make it .
15 So if you actually want to italicize something , you want to make it bold , you le you have to select it first and then you can carry out the tha , the function .
16 That it 's expensive ; it 's as expensive as you want to make it .
17 say you want to make it dead on then or just
18 Er it depends on how much you want to make it stand out .
19 we actually ended up with a lot more I P R people and we 'd done all the work and they got most of the money now that 's fine that 's the way life goes sometimes , but I must admit I think that depending on how big an event you want to make it you 're maybe as well to keep it an B A I E event and open it up quietly at the end
20 I think we should you know make it clear how we stand .
21 Yet when I first came , you tried to make me think your position here was untenable .
22 You knew from the beginning the terms of the thing , and if you tried to make it more serious than that , you only lost him the quicker .
23 ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left .
24 ‘ If you 'd made me a cup of coffee , ’ I say , ‘ I could have walked home . ’
25 ‘ Maybe I fully intended to tell you , but you 'd made me furious by lunching with my secretary — jealousy again of course , ’ he inserted ‘ and then spent some of the mealtime telling me of it .
26 ‘ If you 'd made it you 'd presumably insist it was Irish stew .
27 The presentational aspect involves all kinds of different considerations which I shall come to presently , but what they boil down to is this : what can you do to make it easier for the communicator to communicate and the audience to receive the required message — with minimum distraction ?
28 What could you do to make it so there was less dirt in your bucket ? ’ , children were nearly always correct .
29 And apart from the garden that you said that you made it lovely while you were there , what other things did you do to make it look like a home ?
30 Are you going to make me play twenty questions ? ’
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