MAKE SB DO STH

making someone do something

            If someone forces you to do something, you can say that they make you do it.

                You've got to make him listen.

                He meant to make them sit still.

            Note that in active sentences like these, you do not use a `to'-infinitive after make. You do not say, for example, `You've got to make them to listen'.

            However, in passive sentences you must use a `to'-infinitive.

                He is made to pay back the debt.

                One old woman was made to wait more than an hour.