Example sentences of "make [pron] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made them suffer and gradually the fear went , but it left a — a sort of boiling rage . ’ |
| 2 | He often wondered what they did in there that made them scream and shout as they ran out . |
| 3 | They came together with control engineer Dave Smith to look at this particular problem but , as their work progressed , their recently acquired quality training made them realise that a Corrective Action Team was needed to look at the wider question . |
| 4 | I made them wash and iron and do certain cleaning jobs to earn their spending money . |
| 5 | The blizzards stirred them , made them leap and flurry , like his father 's anger . |
| 6 | ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time . |
| 7 | She handed me a glass of cider , others accepted a small glass of a clear liquid that made them wince as they swallowed it . |
| 8 | But the main function of the British and Russian ministers was to observe and counter each other 's activities ; it was the rivalries of these two great imperial powers which kept alive their interest in Persia and made them establish and maintain relations with it . |
| 9 | The idea of two particles so near in mass was troubling for some people and made them wonder if some misinterpretations had occurred ; in particular Patrick Blackett , another Nobel Laureate , raised a question as to whether there might be other explanations of the pion decay . |
| 10 | ‘ Our people saw that the Sterling plant was quite different from other plants , ’ Anthony recalled , ‘ and it made them appreciate that because our product was going into a pharmaceutical process , quality is absolutely critical . ’ |
| 11 | They fed these children with these tablets that would make them go and the parents were rushing out and buying tablets to make the children intel the children intelligent . |
| 12 | when the old boy comes round and see what you 've done with the old horse manure , spread some of that around and that 'll make them grow as well |
| 13 | Erm it does n't give you a headache it helps to maybe cure a headache , and it 's just nice smelling and I think if you were just to even with your partners or with friends even just massage somebody 's hands or massage somebody 's feet if you do n't make them scream while you 're doing it . |
| 14 | Quite rightly , professionals are struggling to understand the pressures of caring , and their sympathy for carers can make them ignore or misread signs of abuse , or even to interpret abuse as a response to the difficulties some elderly people present . |
| 15 | For example , ‘ I forgive you for being so patronising towards me ’ would make them feel that they were having their sins confessed to them . |
| 16 | erm I mean it really must make them feel like the world 's gone haywire . |
| 17 | I can still make them work and that , it 's just like they ai n't mine . |
| 18 | To suggest the hidden but omnipresent power of the TARDIS Brachaki wanted a system of lights behind the roundels that would make them glow and pulse while the ship was in flight . |
| 19 | And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad . |
| 20 | Debasement of the coinage led Wriothesley to call the Mint ‘ our holy anchor ’ ; its profits were such that he told Paget to keep its operations secret , ‘ for if it should come out that men 's things coming thither be thus employed , it would make them withdraw and so bring a lack ’ . |
| 21 | It is the only thing that will stir out sleeping brethren , the only thing that will make them fight and not cooperate . |
| 22 | Does the ad make me stop and look at it ? |
| 23 | ‘ There 's a body of opinion over here that we 're too British , ’ adds Fruitbat , ‘ and that does make me feel like I 'm banging my head against a wall at times . |
| 24 | He would just make me go and wipe it all off . |
| 25 | ‘ You did make me laugh when you fell over the broomstick . ’ |
| 26 | Because every person who comes in thinks ‘ this geezer 's gon na make me laugh because it says here he recalls Harold Lloyd , he 's a comic genius and he 's a continual delight ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ If you can make me understand that , I stand a better chance of helping to get you the money to find it , ’ Waldegrave said . |
| 28 | I mean , it did make me realize that for large parts of a drama lesson when the kids were supposed to be working on their own they were n't probably doing an awful lot . |
| 29 | All these players can make me flinch and squirm ; but it 's nothing compared to the complicated torment meted out by the Barometer . |
| 30 | Years ago I used to do isometric exercises because they did n't make me puff and they seemed easy . |