Example sentences of "make [adj] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , erm I think I should make clear that I have some personal feelings on this , and I just want to say something very briefly about my neighbours , something I actually do n't agree with . |
| 2 | Then , after I 'd made sure that I 'd left no telltale traces , I was off . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , Mama always made sure that I learned to do the practical stuff , as well as fine embroidery and canvas work , ’ Sally-Anne had said . |
| 4 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 5 | Even when I was a schoolboy I was able to disguise it because my parents made sure that I had the best of footwear specially made to build up my right foot without making it obvious that this was the case . |
| 6 | My hair always seems to look lank and lifeless , even though I make sure that I wash and condition it regularly . |
| 7 | The time I have available to practise is my sacred time and I make sure that I accomplish everything I set out to do . |
| 8 | And the place is used a lot erm like the local Trade 's Council meet here , and I make sure that I open up for them . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied tersely , ‘ I 'll make sure that I draw up a balance sheet next time . |
| 10 | I shall make sure that I send him a copy of my speech tomorrow , which will give detail after detail of what is actually taking place in the valleys . |
| 11 | I will make sure that I meet you but I shall pretend that I have never seen you before . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 13 | Erm what I 'm doing basically is er putting on as many exhibitions as I can using the centre 's name and making sure that I 've got a good amount of my work in there , although I do n't push anybody else out . |
| 14 | The only things I think about are calorie-counting and weighing myself , and making sure that I do n't put on the weight I 've lost , and passing my O levels . |
| 15 | ‘ I just want to make clear that I pay you every correctitude for what you were involved in there . ’ |
| 16 | but I 've got to make sure that I 've got ten i n't I first ? |
| 17 | I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible . |
| 18 | I always run just as fast I have to , and as I neared the finish I looked across to make sure that I had qualified , and there was Carl . |
| 19 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 20 | honestly felt a wee bit nervous at the start just to make sure that I had the structure , that , that , I think that was the whole crux of the thing . |
| 21 | They must have wrecked the car to make sure that I understood they meant business . ’ |
| 22 | And clearly anyone from outside Northwest Manchester has got to start looking at the are and doing some research and finding out where the big firms are , who the important people are , etcetera , to make sure that I know the area that I 'm candidate in . |
| 23 | Summarize what the candidate said to make sure that I got it right ? |
| 24 | He seems to have known enough about ordinary medicine — and perhaps still have had the contacts within the profession — to make sure that I got my inoculations and injections at the correct times in my life , despite my official non-existence as far as the National Health Service is concerned . |
| 25 | I mean they ai n't sort of I mean what they could force you to do if they really , I mean they would never do that but what they could force you to do or Les to do would be to check with all those people who I 've actually sort of made payments to , to make sure that I have . |
| 26 | After haggling with the airline official and trying to make sure that I did n't have to pay the charges with foreign currency , the woman in charge suddenly said : ‘ All right , pay in Iraqi dinars ! ’ |
| 27 | And I scratched it on there to make sure that I did n't forget it . |
| 28 | In his desire to make sure that I do justice to the Masai cosmic vision , the professor overestimates my attachment to the logical . |
| 29 | And , I certainly have taken steps to make sure that I do n't get a wasps nest , but in that particular area again , because he begged to point out to me where the wasp was getting access to , a little tiny space above my bedroom window , and that has now been sealed , so hopefully the wasps another year will find a home somewhere else that is n't quite so close to my open bedroom window . |