Example sentences of "try make them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would say that , instead of ‘ spoon-feeding ’ the residents , they tried to make them independent . |
| 2 | Clinton Hadley fondled the breasts of his victims , aged from 18 to 26 , and tried to make them strip ‘ to relax ’ , a jury was told . |
| 3 | For him these first moments of meeting each day were so exciting an elixir that he always tried to make them last as long as possible , and the sight of her in full flight on her bicycle never failed to set his blood tingling . |
| 4 | I tried to make them stay , but they would not . " |
| 5 | Yet they did n't change their lives , and no one tried to make them . |
| 6 | To begin with the little-uns looked on Piggy as their parental figure because he always acted like an adult in their eyes and tried to make them laugh . |
| 7 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |
| 8 | We transfer ‘ I do n't deserve it ’ on to ‘ They do n't deserve it ’ , and may try to make them feel guilty . |
| 9 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 10 | I did n't try to make them fall for me , because at that time I was n't in the mood for that sort of thing . ’ |
| 11 | The extreme categories tend to be under-used ; we can try to make them sound less extreme or ( particularly for a 10-point scale ) we can pool responses from a group of end categories . |
| 12 | Policies have their conditions and we try to make them as user friendly as possible but if people do not read conditions it is difficult for us to say we will ignore those conditions . ’ |
| 13 | If you wear your own clothes , try to make them smart and not too fussy . |
| 14 | Try to make them more specific : ‘ No one around here cleans up ’ ( kitchen sink full of plates ) . |
| 15 | Since playgrounds give our children so much , it 's a great shame that in many areas , the old playparks are being allowed to run down until they 're in such a bad state that it 's easier and cheaper to knock them down and build a carpark than try to make them safe . |
| 16 | Please , Tom when er placing photographs in Direct , please try to make them a little more appropriate . |
| 17 | Our job is to take the stupid and impossible fantasies of our politicians and try to make them work in terms of flesh and blood . ’ |
| 18 | Scanning through the Utopia 's 128 presets , the first thirty being exclusive to this system , Rocktron have tried to make them as varied as possible in order to demonstrate the rig 's potential , and while most of them are usable there are a few which defy logic . |
| 19 | One of them asked another if he remembered how the Magistrate Sahib had tried to make them strengthen the embankments and this caused such merriment that one of the landowners almost fell into the water . |
| 20 | I 've tried to make them a little bit longer . |
| 21 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |
| 22 | Patscentre made Yes-Man after it decided that robots were getting too complicated : manufacturers were trying to make them both cognitive and manipulative . |
| 23 | Women , they argue , are always trying to make them stop doing things they most like doing ( getting messy , drinking , staying out late and so on ) just like their mothers used to . |
| 24 | However , there are always attendant risks with taking people out of an environment where they have been successful and moving them , mid-career , into a completely different style and sector and trying to make them successful there . |
| 25 | But that is no reason for trying to make them contradict each other . |
| 26 | They are not irreconcilable and sociological analysis can only be frustrated by trying to make them so . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're trying to make them think you 've been coming in to see me ? |
| 28 | Oh , right , we row , we lucky we 've got a row of trees all the way along the back fence like , and in the summer when all the foliage makes quite a nice barrier for the noise and sound and stuff , but what were trying to do is to stop them from , were trying to make them spread out |