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 .
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