Example sentences of "make it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Direct blocks in kung fu hardly exist ; if a block is made it does not stop dead upon impact . |
| 2 | I ask if rum was in the original recipe and she says , no , and I say that 's what stops the cake standing firm and has made it melt all over the place , and she says , ‘ It 's gon na do the same to you , ’ and we laugh like we 're kids . |
| 3 | And when the blur does clear , we imagine that we have made it do so all by ourselves . |
| 4 | When Lord John Russell declared that ‘ the whisper of a faction could not prevail over the voice of a nation ’ , he was appealing to moral principle ; and if , when that appeal was made , it chimed in with political expediency it was only because factious and sometimes unprincipled Tory opposition had made it to do so . |
| 5 | But he 'd made it swallow a hook beforehand — ( Serafine opens her mouth and wiggles her little finger inside , and both Xanthe and Miranda squirm at the sight of her soft tongue , imagining the laceration , the capture. ) — And this little hook 's at the end of a thread , and the thread 's attached to a trapeze of sticks hanging above . |
| 6 | Once a decision to adopt a stratified sampling scheme is made it becomes necessary to decide how the n units in the sample should be allocated to strata . |
| 7 | So what kind of people live here that we what 's what 's made it go you you said that it 's got one of the s what are the kind of things that go on now , that wo did n't go on before ? |
| 8 | Erm er and it 's the way that we do it that 's made it made it very comfortable to go into something , like most of the people that come to see us and work with us , they 've never sold never been involved in advertising let alone sold it because erm |
| 9 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 10 | She 'd collected her wedding dress , and it was n't what she wanted ; it did n't fit properly , and the woman in Drogheda who had made it had gone away on holiday , and her assistant did n't know anything about it , and was n't a seamstress , so now what the hell was she supposed to do ? |
| 11 | Jean Pierre Hocke , the commissioner of the Geneva-based organisation , has made it known he is concerned about the case . |
| 12 | After both incidents , Clasper had made it known , throughout the plant , that the young shop steward was being victimised and harassed by the foreman while on legitimate union business . |
| 13 | However , these particular instances do not meet the general proposition that if the husband and wife have drifted apart , and the woman has made it known that she no longer wants to have sex with her husband , it is wrong that the husband who has sex with her without her consent is exempt from conviction for rape . |
| 14 | But now that John Gribbin has made it known ( Letters , 26 January ) that the term ( and presumably the concept ) ‘ centrifugal force ’ is favoured by the relativists , I am beginning to have second thoughts . |
| 15 | Right now only six NHS trusts have actually introduced PRP for nurses , but almost all trusts have made it known they want to introduce the system at some point . |
| 16 | Since February 1989 the Iranian President , Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , had made it known that he would be working toward the release of all hostages in the Middle East . |
| 17 | Taylor had consistently made it known that he would not agree to a ceasefire until Doe had resigned and left the country . |
| 18 | Houphouët-Boigny had previously made it known that , if elected , this would be his last term of office , but gave no indication as to a possible successor . |
| 19 | During the course of the visit it was reported that US Secretary of State James Baker had made it known that the USA rejected recent suggestions that it should alter its deployment of nuclear weapons currently sited in South Korea as an inducement to North Korea to allow international inspection . |
| 20 | At least music lovers have made it known they 're no longer willing to part with money for nothing . |
| 21 | The government has made it known it wants to shake up local administrations by combining all their services under single authorities . |
| 22 | The terrorists had made it known that tourists would be a target , but the Foreign Office decided not to issue a general warning to British travellers . |
| 23 | The recession has made it take a hard look at the cost of law and at the attitude of big London firms that it 's used for more than fifty years . |
| 24 | Yeah , so you 'd be if you 're making records you 'd better made it count early on . |
| 25 | Ronald Chalmers 's term of office as vice-chairman had been a year only , he said , and he had made it know that he did not want to be considered for an office-bearer 's position . |
| 26 | But the Pru was not centralised , so we tried their methodology and we 've made it work . |
| 27 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
| 28 | You could have you could have made it work . |
| 29 | You could 've made it work if the peasants if the peasants were revolutionary , if the peasants had changed their value system and were n't and that there were very few who were still working within the economy . |
| 30 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |