Example sentences of "[noun pl] make [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of these broad parameters makes itself felt in the opening pages of the Report , to the extent that the Committee is prepared to revise its very terms of reference in the light of its wider concerns . |
| 2 | Deaf and dumb children who could manage by self-teaching alone through their eyes to make themselves useful and a source of income to their parents did not often find their way into the asylums . |
| 3 | You 've lo lost all the opportunities to make yourself a bit more money which is what we 're talking about here . |
| 4 | There is a delay of D6+4 Turns ( 5–10 minutes ) before the effects make themselves felt . |
| 5 | Of course if Adam had invited his parents to make themselves at home at Wyvis Hall , use it as a hotel , while he was away , they would have lent him any amount , but that was the last thing Adam would have done . |
| 6 | One of these possibilities made itself known to J. some time that spring . |
| 7 | The troops made themselves ready . |
| 8 | You had a bath , and some time around ten-thirty went down to the kitchen wearing your dressing-gown and slippers to make yourself a mug of Ovaltine . |
| 9 | Talks and meetings on topics of interest to nurses looking for a change in career direction are held throughout the day , and personnel and recruitment officers make themselves available to answer questions and arrange interviews for interested applicants . |
| 10 | ‘ Just as there is comfort in eating , so there is comfort spending — buying things to make yourself feel better , ’ observes Simon Gelsthorpe . |
| 11 | LEFT Ruffling up the feathers to make yourself look bigger is a common defensive measure in a lot of birds . |
| 12 | The impediment in their speech will remain and their difficulties to make themselves understood by the man in the street will be with them for ever . |
| 13 | The Nazis made themselves the beneficiaries . |
| 14 | Where the buyer places an order with a seller for what is essentially sub-contract manufacture , it is very common either for the seller to require the buyer to provide such items for use in the manufacture , or to have such items made himself . |
| 15 | Henna for their hair and erm , the men put oil on their bodies to make themselves look better , you know , more attractive to the female 's and , so I think erm , we 've always strived to improve ourselves our appearances . |
| 16 | It was while they were away , and the auxiliary helping the patients to make themselves presentable , that David returned . |
| 17 | This is all about maverick tendencies making themselves heard , about imaginations running wild — if not downright livid . |
| 18 | Jewish men make themselves more holy by separating from Jewish women , both to avoid women 's impurity and to seek a holy space for prayer and relation to God , defined by the exclusion of the female . |
| 19 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 20 | Audrey Baker , tutor for the National Marriage Guidance Council ( address on page 153 ) , says that although long-established marriages do not necessarily founder at retirement , many couples make themselves miserable by not communicating . |
| 21 | There is little , if any , social pressure on men to make themselves attractive to women . |
| 22 | First of all it 's the , the finding out erm how best you can prevent one , and then when you 've found that out trying to persuade people to take the necessary measures to make themselves less vulnerable . |
| 23 | This might have been regarded as making the local manager 's job more straightforward but as one set of pressures was removed others made themselves felt . |
| 24 | Gabriel , meanwhile , received his draft papers and begins to take large quantities of drugs to make himself medically unfit , until he verges on insanity . |
| 25 | It was striking that many of the girls I spoke to with anorexia or bulimia ( an eating disorder similar to anorexia , but in which sufferers make themselves sick or take laxatives to keep their weight down ; both methods are extremely dangerous to health ) told of an incident ( which they often insist was small or insignificant ) of sexual harassment or abuse which marked the start of their body obsession . |
| 26 | The secret policemen made themselves so hated by ordinary Iraqis that they now depend on the president 's protection almost as much as he depends on theirs . |
| 27 | In soft brass passages it provides a perfectly satisfactory bass by itself , but in loud ones the difference in quality between its ‘ blunt ’ tones and the ‘ sharp ’ utterance of the trumpets and trombones makes itself felt . |
| 28 | As the men resumed work , Mr Friend said he told his colleagues to make themselves comfortable and to strip to their underwear to dig . |