Example sentences of "would make you " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’ |
| 2 | You 'll see that I quite ignore the fact that in my ‘ austere ’ life , my daily menu would make you green with jealousy . |
| 3 | You might be forgiven for thinking that the absorption of a stimulant would make you better able to function mentally — but in fact this is far from the truth . |
| 4 | This would make you less likely to behave like this in similar circumstances in the future . |
| 5 | This means that you should not turn up in casual clothes which express your out-of-work personality , enchanting as that may be , nor should you wear the sort of ‘ best ’ clothes which would make you the star at a party but which are patently unsuitable for day-today working situations . |
| 6 | Which choice would make you feel more loving towards yourself , others and/or the planet ? |
| 7 | Which choice(s) would make you feel smaller and more separate from others ? |
| 8 | It would make you look so much younger . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It was the sort of smell that would make you sick , like raw sewage . |
| 10 | And yet , over a century after Jack The Ripper 's grisly murders — so foul that simple descriptions would make you puke — no-one is any the wiser about his identity … |
| 11 | ‘ Reality would make you feel ill . ’ |
| 12 | Erm er or even any skills which would make you employable at all |
| 13 | But that was your real nature , and it told me that nothing would make you kill an innocent man , a complete stranger , who had done you no harm . |
| 14 | His smile faded as he added , ‘ I just wish I could believe Pickles would make you happy . |
| 15 | I 've seen splints and saddle sores that would make you blench , and you can pull the coat off some of them with your bare hands . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I thought it would make you feel at home , ’ said the gallery owner — untruthfully , I felt . |
| 17 | He reckoned it would make you more … susceptible . ’ |
| 18 | If it would make you happier , I could always go away . ’ |
| 19 | No ordinary pink this , either , but a pink of a hallucinogenic vividness — Schiaparelli pink , you might say , although you probably would n't because it would make you extremely unpopular . |
| 20 | ‘ Any of them would make you a better wife than I could . |
| 21 | And once you 'd made your decision , you dug your feet in and nothing would make you change your mind . |
| 22 | But I think a more modest aim would make you just as happy , just as satisfied . |
| 23 | And because you are so much older , you would n't see yourself as competing for the same resources , and you would probably have matured in ways emotionally , that would make you accept and identify with the parental values , rather than , than feel sad or , or resentful , because you felt you were more like your brother , as it were , and you were being discriminated against . |
| 24 | You are obviously tired and I imagine that nothing would make you admit it . |
| 25 | That would make you a pearl among women , and no mistake . ’ |
| 26 | I knew your ways , that streak of obstinacy that would make you always run counter , even as an infant . |
| 27 | ‘ Only a dyed-in-the-wool swine would make you cry , ’ he muttered , ‘ so what does that make me ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What would make you think so ? ’ |
| 29 | It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life |
| 30 | If it was dark , I would make you turn the light out ! ’ |