Example sentences of "make out [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 're horrid to tell me lies too , and make out that when you 're married you 're going to get up to horrible … such disgusting … with that man who looks like a fish with cold yellowish eyes and greeny-yellow skin … . ’ |
| 2 | These wishes go straight back to childhood , and so religion represents a transference from childhood and a kind of emotional infantilism in which people try and make out that they 're still children , as it were , even though they , even though they really are n't . |
| 3 | You know that new players always make out that their new club is the one for them etc etc . |
| 4 | But did the man she had wanted to lie with have to be such a swine — and make out that she was just anybody 's ? |
| 5 | Make out that they 've been right bastards to . |