Example sentences of "make it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And when the blur does clear , we imagine that we have made it do so all by ourselves . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yeah , so you 'd be if you 're making records you 'd better made it count early on . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the Pru was not centralised , so we tried their methodology and we 've made it work . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You could have you could have made it work . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 15 | Even if Maastricht is ratified intact , the past four months have made it seem backward-looking , or even irrelevant . |
| 16 | The call of the birds has made it seem good |
| 17 | By grossly exaggerating the victim 's treatment of the accused in order to gain sympathy for the latter he had instead made it seem all the more likely that he had meant to kill . |
| 18 | It was probably the effect of the fog that had made it seem huge at first . |
| 19 | A casual glance would have made it seem that her expression was stiff with anger . |
| 20 | He 's just made it seem much more important that it was , really . " |
| 21 | That it was at the seaside made it seem all the worse . |
| 22 | In Molly 's own words : ‘ Thinking back to these early classes , I realise that it has always been the enthusiastic response of the class members that has made it seem supremely worth while to go on … |
| 23 | She had made it happen . |
| 24 | And the clients have a greater confidence in us , recognising us as the people who have made it happen . |
| 25 | In particular , the weakness of the US dollar has made it look cheap on a comparison of purchasing power . |
| 26 | ‘ Now he has got fascinated by the paper as well , he 's made it look like a field of bridal veils , but it 's going to be difficult to keep it in place when we move it at night . |
| 27 | Torvill and Dean have always made it look easy . |
| 28 | You 're a good enough driver to have made it look like an accident . ’ |
| 29 | At last he said , ‘ You 've made it look like a rather nasty plot to achieve my own ends . ’ |
| 30 | Have you made it look nice ! |