Example sentences of "[vb past] it make " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who created it made themselves the masters of the Greek-speaking world within two centuries . |
| 2 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 3 | She collected some of his saliva from the ground and used it make a serpent . |
| 4 | VARI is not a new process — Lotus first used it to make Elite bodies in 1974 . |
| 5 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 6 | I took my inhaler with me , and they took it off me , telling me I used it to make myself high . |
| 7 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 8 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |
| 9 | shift error : We tried it making — making it with gravy . |
| 10 | Now , she found it made her preen . |
| 11 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 12 | The continuing failure of Labour to present a distinctive alternative to the Tories was indicated strikingly in the opinion poll finding that 40 per cent of electors believed it made no difference which party was in power . |
| 13 | She passed the streamer to another woman who did the same and each woman who received it made a statement of her sorrow , culminating with a young woman who spoke , with tears running down her face , of her fears for her children . |
| 14 | The writer has collected three instances of this practice : two in the Stowmarket district and one near Mendlesham where the farmer who recalled it made the comment after the cold and wet spring of 1963 : ‘ I do n't know how those owd bors who used to set on the seed-bed would get on today : I reckon they 'd get themselves right chilled . ’ |
| 15 | Craftsmen painstakingly cut the warp , one rib at a time , with long , knives ; then they brushed it to make the pile stand up . |
| 16 | Inevitably , as capitalism developed it made sense to introduce more machinery , to move to a division of labour and to a conveyor-belt system of production . |
| 17 | Following its flight in the binoculars he saw it make a sweep over a rough piece of land shunned by the golf course architect , a triangle of unsuitable terrain enclosed by the 2nd , 9th and 17th holes . |
| 18 | He saw it made her think for a moment , about him . |
| 19 | Lost most people with a powerful central theme to their life , Gedge had to adopt an obstinate approach as The Wedding Present became successful and during their two-year relationship , Debbie Kaye felt it made him self-centred . |
| 20 | Aged 28 , Lesley claims not to be a natural competitor and in fact as a teenager dropped out of a PE teacher training course as she felt it made sport too serious and took the fun away . |
| 21 | He regretted the Ryans ' intractability because he felt it made Eileen unhappy . |
| 22 | The picaresque vitality of Richardson 's novel begins to wane early in the third volume ( a frequent fate of follow-ups ) and , as a theatre audience does not have the opportunity to plough through stodgy bits in their own time , we felt it made for better drama to kill Pamela ( in the novel she comes near to death ) before the dramatic conflict itself dies . |
| 23 | The independence of the inspectorate enabled it to make its comments , which is why new clause 2 is so relevant . |
| 24 | Though I had always disliked Christmas , because I knew it made my mother unhappy for some reason , that was one Christmas when I was happy , and I have never forgotten it . |
| 25 | She knew it made no sense , but the idea of Vitor being married and having children was oddly discomfiting . |
| 26 | He said he was nineteen years old ; he also said he was an orphan , but they all said that , they thought it made people pay more . |
| 27 | The bathroom — which was lavish even by Mayfair standards — was all glass and cool , muted blues , which had looked lovely when she had put it in , but which she now thought was cold and vaguely forbidding , and as she pulled off her pyjama top , she thought it made her flesh look white and dead . |
| 28 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 29 | I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour . |
| 30 | And th there there was a cartoon in the paper in the week I thought it made me smile really . |