Example sentences of "and [noun] [conj] make [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't repeat yourself ’ is an injunction placed upon us when we assemble our first stories and essays and make our first public utterances . |
| 2 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 3 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 4 | Did you not yourself say that our love must be holy ? ’ or when she pointed out that his ‘ lovely poems ’ would have been less lovely if she had not pro vided ‘ the unrest and storm that made them possible ’ : ‘ Beloved I will pray with my whole strength that suffering and temptation may be taken from you as they have been taken from me and that we may gain spiritual union stronger than earthly union could ever be . ’ |
| 5 | He loved scandal and intrigue and made his contribution in low , conspiratorial tones . |
| 6 | Talbot thanked him , rose , washed the sleep from his face and eyes and made his way to the admiral 's quarters . |
| 7 | I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work . |
| 8 | ‘ She has no airs and graces and makes us all so proud . ’ |
| 9 | Jokes and laughter can be a wonderful way of bringing people together but Gowie 's so-called jokes are the sort that cause only anger and unhappiness and make everyone despise him . |
| 10 | but I can not emphasize too strongly that you should only choose furniture and furnishings that make you feel comfortable . |
| 11 | For example , the 1986 Act removed the right to benefit for most 16- and 17-year-olds and made it a requirement that claimants pay 20 per cent of their rates/poll tax and 100 per cent of their water rates . |
| 12 | For my good lady loved singing and dancing and made me learn both . |
| 13 | Gaviria stated that the economy needed a " shake-up " in order to increase its size and competitiveness and to make it attractive to foreign investors . |
| 14 | The PLO quickly dispatched delegations to Cairo , Amman and Damascus and made it known that it would not disrupt the process . |
| 15 | It is assumed that there is sufficient uniformity to facilitate the specification of situations and circumstances that make it more , or less , likely to occur . |
| 16 | We would be pretty uninteresting if we all behaved as adults all of the time , and it is our mix of behaviours as adult , child and parent that makes us interesting and unique . |
| 17 | take your love and promises and make them last . |
| 18 | The health benefits and disciplines gained enhance the balance between our mind and body and make us more able to achieve our aims and to counter disease . |
| 19 | Christ , in some mysterious way , takes upon himself our folly and failure and makes it his own , so that we may go free . |
| 20 | It 's the element of novelty and danger that makes it different , plus the deliberate nature of going out to get laid . |
| 21 | All of them sheep and cattle yes , even the savage beasts birds of the air and fish that make their way through the water . |
| 22 | But modern children have a lot of facts and it 's the interpretation of facts and feelings that makes them civilised . ’ |
| 23 | He 'd acquired a gasoline kicker engine from somewhere with an exhaust that run and he had made during picked up from scraps and stuff and made it , so where he had a tub right on top of this gasoline engine . |
| 24 | When he tried to talk to Bella in bed at night , there were passing moments of ease and sweetness that made it seem almost possible to recover what had been lost . |
| 25 | They have the highest income-tax and VAT rates , the harshest drinking laws , the dreariest bars , the dullest restaurants and television that makes you feel as if you are warming up for a coma . |
| 26 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 27 | Wherever you look , the French countryside is brimming with light , colour , the aroma of herbs growing in the wild , and a people and scenery that make it one of the most wonderfully enticing parts of the world . |
| 28 | Its continued success during the 1990s will depend upon its ability to maintain the distinctive built form and environment that makes it so attractive to international business decision-makers . |
| 29 | The account produced after the events obscured the hard work , stress and frustration that made them happen . |
| 30 | Saw , too , the tiny flecks and threads of topaz and hazel that made his eyes such a compelling and disturbing feature . |