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Example sentences of "to make it [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Once could not genetically engineer a duck to make it cluck .
2	carbon dioxide in the air , enough to make it conduct .
3	But I ca n't see how on earth to make it go away . ’
4	Mix used cooking oil into your hoof oil to make it go further .
5	If the Government decides to regulate a particular area of activity , whether because of public pressure following financial scandals or because of an EC directive , the profession is not going to be able either to make it go against public opinion or to relieve it of its responsibilities under the Treaty of Rome .
6	A mallet and a crowbar , to try to make it go far
7	John wound up the toy car to make it go .
8	In the questions task , both age groups showed a strong preference for expressing intentional explanations by means of the infinitive construction ( e.g. , John wound up the toy car to make it go ) .
9	I poured out some ouzo and added enough water to make it go milkily opaque .
10	They both wanted , suddenly , to make it go away .
11	And somehow his hurt had brought him back here , looking for some innocence long since gone from him , looking for some boyhood simplicity to answer the anguish within him , to make it go away .
12	very hard was n't it , to make it go , to stretch it , was n't it ?
13	You would n't reduce the batteries to reverse it to make it go the other way .
14	If you 're going to make it go out that way then you 'll have to make it go out that way at the bottom otherwise it wo n't fit when you try to put the other wall up .
15	Dealers who were n't going to make it left , often of their own accord , before getting sacked .
16	Since every day could evidently be my last , I was going to make it count .
17	This means that ancient man deliberately shaped his environment to make it represent a part of the cosmic whole , an access point into the world of the gods .
18	Whether shorter or longer , the important thing is to make it serve you so that it becomes not a burden but a means of personal reflection and integration .
19	Carnelian must know special runes to inscribe around the eye-screen and arcane litanies to incant , to make it serve this two-way purpose , which perhaps had been the true purpose of the device in the first place …
20	I know how to make it do all kinds of things — including a few that are not in the manufacturer 's manual — but I have not the first idea as to how it actually works .
21	To make it do so in company is bizarre .
22	If , by accident , you try to make it do something which could give rise to an error , you accept the fact that command mode .
23	Identify what you want it to do , learn how to make it do that , ignore everything else .
24	The shape of this 30ft by 45ft design seemed to make it appear wider and not all features could be seen at first glance .
25	First he sketched an arabesque design on the dress in white to make it appear décolleté , then he covered her dress with magnificent , multi-coloured flowers and finally sprayed his design with fixative .
26	Approaches that have tended to over-emphasise the cost aspects of RMI and to make it appear as a finance-driven system tend to alienate the service provider groups and often meet with resistance at clinician level .
27	All had the habit of changing the dates on the backs of their photographs to make it appear they were ten years younger than their true age .
28	Instead of trying to break up the real shape of the animal , it attempts to make it appear flatter than it is .
29	The Reich had been injecting money into Danzig to make it appear that Forster and his pals were able to find the resources to create employment projects through their superior management skills .
30	The candidate whose immediate queries are along the lines of , ‘ When will I get my first pay rise ? ’ , or ‘ Will I be able to go on holiday in July ? ’ will probably not be putting the job first and certainly lacks the good sense and tact to make it appear to be the priority .