Example sentences of "to make [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We felt quite strongly that although it was a gesture , I do n't think it was a political gesture , I think it was a gesture that we as Councillors wanted to make so that we personally would suffer some of the reductions in erm finance that we were going to impose on other people . |
| 2 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 3 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 4 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 5 | The charge of political bias laid at the door of critics , and the claim that their own scientific activities were neutral , leaves only one way out — to make out that the problem lies in technical factors of production that constrain maximum yield performance in maize , and not in the interrelationship between social conditions of inequality and the new technologies which CIMMYT and IRRI were developing . |
| 6 | You 've always tried to make out that I was wrong and you were right . |
| 7 | SAMANTHA FOX : For trying to make out that there 's no harm in Page Three and going on to her pre-destined role as a bimbo rock chick exhorting her listeners to touch her and feel her body , helping another generation of idiot males think that women are there purely for their own gratification . |
| 8 | When I set myself to search this site , my first little breakthrough came when I uncovered a bronze coin weight ; this was in very poor condition but I was able to make out that it was 17th century in date . |
| 9 | Are you trying to make out that we started that shooting ? ’ |
| 10 | Martinho encouraged him in this opinion-he liked to make out that the organisation had been moderate until hijacked by extremists who believed in violence . |
| 11 | I used to make out that I 'd changed . |
| 12 | The extraordinary thing about the tenor of the right hon. Gentleman 's speech in the past few minutes is that once again he seeks to make out that this is not a very important problem and that we can push it away . |
| 13 | The hon. Member has been trying to make out that the Government have been putting profits , the success of BT and the shareholder interest before our policy . |
| 14 | Since the Socialists afterwards tried to make out that this was a personal and private effort by the head of the Cecils , it is important to record that Lord Salisbury merely acted as a means of conveying to the Queen the general view inside the Party . |
| 15 | It was only as they drew nearer that he began to make out that it was the concrete skeleton of an unfinished three-storey duplex , its half-built walls , pillars and floors rising out of a sea of mud . |
| 16 | Oh I see , yes and she wants to go to make out that she 's er whatever age she is . |
| 17 | ‘ Out ? ’ she exclaimed , up in arms at once that , when she knew she did a jolly good job , he should try to make out that she did n't . |
| 18 | It was probably a Barbarian female who tried to make out that a woman 's work is never done . |
| 19 | Oh the story of this particular one is that it er er they tried to make out that the erm that the the the the shark has actually got something against the human beings on this boat and it keeps chasing them . |
| 20 | And he said it was n't his fault , he , he told to do by the script writers , but I mean it 's to make out that he had no right to , it 's ridiculous . |
| 21 | The Council wants to make out that you 've got to let them have the first option |
| 22 | Erm and that 's I suppose was the point I was trying to make earlier that al that 's why abusers sometimes find it very easy because they 're able to tap into a lot of the ways in which we treat children um y'know so er |