Example sentences of "[noun pl] make us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon afterwards we were able to use real rifles , for the authorities made us members of the ‘ Universal Training ’ organization , our criminal past being deliberately overlooked . |
| 2 | Her work refuses any concession to polite conventions of ‘ good taste ’ , indeed her fleshy pinks and pulsing reds make us squirm with embarrassed recognition , reminding us of the ‘ nasty ’ things we do at home — after the guests have gone . |
| 3 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 4 | Although these considerations make us wary of interpreting fig 4.1 too literally , they do not undermine its value as a representation of the essential core of language , and as a starting point for stylistics . |
| 5 | … labels make us feel exclusive . |
| 6 | Thinking of our dead parents and brothers makes us determined to continue to fight against this repressive government . |
| 7 | He does n't come with a lot pious platitudes and and charming words to make us feel better . |
| 8 | Ideas make us what we are . |
| 9 | Lies are essential in life , says Professor Loyal Rue — not only do we lie to others , we tell ourselves fibs to make us feel better . |
| 10 | If all three of these things make us explore new territories of the imagination , the flight of ten blue-lined Steps which rise to a pinnacle in the room next door is another matter all together . |
| 11 | And now backpain week has been designated by doctors and osteopaths to make us more aware of the problem . |
| 12 | Our mass communications make us take such processes for granted : we must remember that television and jet-travel have greatly expanded and accelerated the volume and intensity of such exchanges . |
| 13 | In short , their easy manner and friendly ways made us forget that they were the King and Queen of England . |
| 14 | The geographic distribution of Sea Life Centres makes us uniquely placed to support marine conservation endeavours right around the UK coastline and , in particular , to encourage public involvement and interest in these endeavours . |
| 15 | We have even constructed elaborate theories to make us feel better about the lives older people lead . |
| 16 | The message we receive is that we are not attractive and will not be provided with props to make us so . |
| 17 | ‘ I just felt that though we were 14 when we last met there must have been something of the child left in our features to make us recognize each other after half a century . ’ |
| 18 | Such social processes make us aware how immensely powerful are the mechanisms of denial , the psychological capacity to shut our eyes and ears to matters which are too painful to be contemplated and which create for practitioners ethical and professional dilemmas which are hard to resolve . |
| 19 | The teachers made us go out to play in the snowbound playground and I joined in with all the fun , sliding around in the snow and slush , throwing snowballs , all the usual things . |
| 20 | Wars makes us hungry for news . |
| 21 | ‘ Women make us poets , children make us philosophers . ’ |
| 22 | Your female contributors make us half-men feel pretty useless . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Women make us poets , children make us philosophers . ’ |
| 24 | Jet fumes made us sick — claim |
| 25 | By presenting us with the most degenerate images they could find , those campaigns made us feel comfortingly distant from it all . |
| 26 | Well that 's what I 'm saying , you know drugs erm , well you 're looking at society where we 're given drugs to make us feel better . |
| 27 | Of course , naming is not the whole of language , as the opening passage of Wittgenstein 's Investigations makes us so well aware ; yet it is no doubt a central part of language , and still an important and controversial topic in the philosophy of language . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , there are other reasons to make us believe that there are alternate universes . |
| 29 | First , we need to have more control and accountability for our clinical practice ; second we need to further develop our analytical skills to make us more confident and effective members of the multidisciplinary team , and third , by appreciating the managerial themes in our work we should be better equipped to establish constructive dialogues with our managers who may now be non-nurses . |
| 30 | What inversion of values makes us to look upon such aberrations as though they were a reflection of natural laws ? |