Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make everyone stand in a circle and explain that you have been granted a special power which places people under your spell . |
| 2 | That we should cut off the electricity and make everyone live in the dark ? |
| 3 | They 're one of the reasons I now make everyone come to me , rather than traipsing round the world . ’ |
| 4 | You know all the guests and something about them ; you can greet , welcome , introduce and generally make them feel at home . |
| 5 | ‘ We want to intimidate the audience but also make them feel with us . |
| 6 | Some old people have ill-fitting dentures which make them change to a ‘ soft ’ diet of bread , jam , cakes , biscuits , tinned puddings , and other convenience foods which do not supply all their dietary requirements . |
| 7 | Cos in actual fact there was a , a lot of sort of de facto redistribution because er some of these account settling things were just so ridiculous you know make them pay for crimes their family had committed over the last sixty years or whatever . |
| 8 | Just make them pay for the |
| 9 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 10 | Make them beg for information . |
| 11 | But unless you can grasp the private contractors and make them cooperate within this or encourage them to do so , there 's absolutely no way you can have a so-called seamless journey . |
| 12 | I make them play in uniform : |
| 13 | Since Legnani first danced the famous thirty-two fouettës in Swan Lake , it sometimes seems that choreographers lacking ideas for a spectacular finish to a solo , send the dancer spinning faster and faster round the stage , or set them centre stage and make them turn with increasingly difficult poses . |
| 14 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 15 | And if you think a pike has teeth , well these fish make them look like toothless gummies ! |
| 16 | And er then there was er oak and then there was different kinds of woods that you used to could you know s er imitate , make them look like maybe er er walnut . |
| 17 | Make them look like turtles ! |
| 18 | Could she erm , bleach my hairs white and then just like , make them look like skin ? |
| 19 | ‘ I saw state policemen drag strikers across the road and make them kneel in the ditch there while they held shotguns in their backs . |
| 20 | Make them account for their actions . |
| 21 | However , I feel it is better to dominate all dogs equally and make them come to a submissive position in front of the owner , preferably the down position . |
| 22 | And make them journey from Killinghall towards Ripon . |
| 23 | His superiority over them can not but make them seem to us inferior , innocent , or naïve , dupes who trust too easily and are soon outwitted . |
| 24 | And in using these terms , we reinforce such attitudes and make them seem like something timelessly true about women . |
| 25 | and make them die of income tax . |
| 26 | More recently , industrial contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) have accumulated in the liver and kidneys of pilot whales in quantities which make them unfit for human consumption . |
| 27 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 28 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 29 | Although their names make them sound like large predators , they are actually tiny insect larvae . |
| 30 | Then Bjorn Again say ‘ thanks ’ in accents that make them sound like the chef out of The Muppet Show , and an Australian voice tells us to hurry up and spend our money on tickets for their next gig in Manchester , which , due to overwhelming demand , is happening next week . |