Example sentences of "makes it [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | As far as its lyrics are concerned , ‘ Creep ’ is a dark , desperate trawl through unrequited obsession , heavy on self-loathing and personal inadequacy ; not an easy song to listen to , but one whose disquieting subject matter makes it nothing short of stunning . |
2 | The Queen Mother is also a shrewd judge of character who makes it her business to keep an eye on new members of the family and , if necessary , step in to protect her beloved ‘ firm ’ . |
3 | The lady Alianor makes it her business to discover all that goes on , and has many influential friends — yet she has made no mention of it . ’ |
4 | ‘ It 's addressed to her — that makes it her property . ’ |
5 | But you see the thing is , that 's true but sometimes the way they deal with it , they deal with it say eight weeks , so which makes it what ? |
6 | The husband pounces on it ; the Common Law makes it his . |
7 | Into the blind man 's stony gaze and makes it His , |
8 | It makes makes it you know and then we jus you just ah , have , we 'll just have , I mean ceiling 's right in blue , so I mean |
9 | Let , I said well the best thing ju to do erm er Pam I said is just to ignore them I said and ignoring them makes it you know ? |
10 | Yes , I hope he is , she 's apparently , she 's erm a designer and the girl that makes it she designs the latest beautiful hats and I thought to myself if they 're those tall , biggest , you know those tall sort of round sort of like bowler hats , |
11 | He makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history , to distil the eternal from the transitory … |
12 | ‘ Whatsoever then , he removes out of the state that nature hath provided , and left it in , he hath mixed his labour with , and joined to it something that is his own , and thereby makes it his property . ’ |
13 | Christ , in some mysterious way , takes upon himself our folly and failure and makes it his own , so that we may go free . |
14 | Iago continues in other , more familiar postures , professing love to Othello and Desdemona ( III.iii. 119ff. , 136ff. , 196ff. , 213ff. , 218f. , 225 ) and feigning a sympathy for their sufferings which we know to be a covert expression of his gloating : As Cicero said , there is no more flagrant injustice than ‘ that of the hypocrite who , at the very moment when he is most false , makes it his business to appear virtuous ’ . |
15 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
16 | Well it makes it it 's a nice soft surface for you to write on . |
17 | Four million copies of that I mean that makes it I think most popular with newspapers I mean |
18 | Even if he makes it he wo n't be up and around for a month at least . ’ |
19 | ‘ You do n't know anything that makes it anything more ? ’ |
20 | What makes it your land ? ’ |
21 | ‘ I 'm afraid a quarter of a million pounds sterling paid out on your mother 's life makes it my business . ’ |
22 | Love makes us see the truth , makes it our duty to tell the truth . |