Example sentences of "[adv] make it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being with the nuns only made it feel worse . |
| 2 | He continued as if she had n't spoken , his voice dropping to a level of intimacy that suddenly made it feel as though they were alone , not being listened to by thousands of people . |
| 3 | ‘ Only make it sound as if you really believe it this time . ’ |
| 4 | So make it go , you push upwards with a |
| 5 | So make it compete with outsiders . |
| 6 | Yeah , so you 'd be if you 're making records you 'd better made it count early on . |
| 7 | MAGICIAN Jonathan Pendragon , 37 , was bitten to the bone by a tiger after apparently making it disappear then bringing it back . |
| 8 | Now Saint Marcus had to put all that lot together to make it look right and make it make sense , with hindsight , bringing all the important pieces together . |
| 9 | ‘ I believe there is a strong market for pay and play , but you have got to make sure your construction costs are kept down to make it pay . |
| 10 | Air obviously makes it burn . |
| 11 | The scene in Belfast is growing as more people start realising that you have to put some effort in to make it work . |
| 12 | The necks of the inverted bottles are dipped in a freezing brine which freezes the wine and sediment at the base of the cork sufficiently to make it adhere to the bottle 's inner-surface ; the dégorgeur can then bring the bottle back to its upright position without disturbing the sediment . |
| 13 | The sudden , unexpected appearance of the bright blue tongue of this skink may startle an approaching predator sufficiently to make it think twice about attacking . |
| 14 | She thought she ought to be able to master it sufficiently to make it write a poem for her , but it did n't work like that . |
| 15 | Adding some formatting to the spreadsheet not only makes it look better but makes it less likely that you will enter the wrong data for the percentage . |
| 16 | Anna only makes it sound Victorian . ’ |
| 17 | carbon dioxide in the air , enough to make it conduct . |
| 18 | Alex Brown & Sons financial analyst Mark Stahlman , who coined the phrase network computing , has charged IBM with leaning on The Harvard Business Review hard enough to make it pull a 10,000-word article he wrote for the January issue on ‘ Why IBM Failed . ’ |
| 19 | For as long as it seemed remotely relevant , the tactic never failed ; and it was easy enough to make it seem relevant in the atmosphere of international hostility of 1945 . |
| 20 | When I examined the differences between success and failure in change projects or development efforts , I found that one major difference was simply time — staying with it long enough to make it work . |
| 21 | Most of the others hovered diplomatically to make it look as if they were about to turn back , while still edging gingerly forward . |
| 22 | I only just made it last time . ’ |
| 23 | Just make it twist round at the side and then it wo n't touch it . |
| 24 | If the Chinese think it is worth going to all the trouble and expense of shipping this equipment 12,000 miles around the world , how is it that British industry can not make it pay ? ’ |
| 25 | My colleagues and I do not believe that the British people will be fooled a second time — one can take a horse to water but one can not make it drink . |
| 26 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 27 | Thinking that something will happen does not make it happen . |
| 28 | Tends to think ‘ I did not make it happen ’ . |
| 29 | Of course sometimes when it does n't work that depresses me because it 's not because it does n't work , it 's because of the constraints of the system that you can not make it work . |
| 30 | His plan to escape was so long in the making and the lesson for us must lie in the reason why , when the time came , he could not make it work . |