Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] make [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Have you now no pleasant tales to tell my Pamela to make her smile ?
2 Cos my Mum made it so
3 he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse .
4 ‘ It must be my sins making me restless , unless it 's something I ate . ’
5 ‘ The circumstances are regrettable , but it is my pleasure to make you as comfortable as possible .
6 The smoke blows in my eyes making them water and sting , so I get up , move and freeze my ass off sitting beyond the smoke in the wind up the valley .
7 If I am warned that my weight makes it highly likely that I will suffer health problems in hot climates , the probability of my being ill is reduced if I do either one of two things — lose weight and/or avoid the tropics , Thus , I have some choice about my life .
8 My mummy makes me do lots of housework !
9 I suppose my experiences and my burns made me both irritable and hasty , for I responded by flicking a sonic grenade at him , from another ring , that scrambled all his synapses .
10 On the other , my parents made me feel horrible , guilty .
11 My parents made me do it .
12 When I was 19 my parents made me leave home , and after a series of disastrous relationships I became pregnant .
13 ‘ I 'd have to look up his real name ; everybody calls him ‘ Baffetti ’ because of his moustache which in my opinion makes him look just as shifty as he is .
14 Or when Tom says , ‘ My teacher made me stay in today ’ , parents would do well to resist the temptation to answer , ‘ Now what have you done ? ’ , or ‘ I suppose you deserved it ’ , replies which would have inflamed his feelings .
15 My conclusion makes it unnecessary for me to proceed further upon the natural justice argument .
16 My husband made me wait while I was in labour till a game finished !
17 These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced .
18 She do n't get dressed till after she 's had her cup of tea , and that 's my job to make it .
19 The nurses turned me on my side and the doctor put a needle into a vein behind my knuckle to make me relax .
20 It goes to my muscles to make them strong .
21 A jolt of pain in my head made me wonder whether it was such a good idea .
22 I wore the shantung tea-gown and a gold circlet round my forehead to make it clear that I 'm the Queen .
23 One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put .
24 When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end .
25 My wife made it .
26 My father made me attend evening lectures for a time on sound , light , and heat — with no effect . ’
27 Er every night they used to play cards and when I was eighteen my father made me learn cards .
28 My father made me a pair of wooden clappers and I used to rattle these and call out :
29 ‘ I want to spend the rest of my life making you happy . ’
30 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
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