Example sentences of "[vb past] they [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | And only the previous week the head of the Irish College in Rome — a widely respected Monsignor had said that illegal resistance was the natural protection against immoral laws and that ‘ the Catholics of Ireland rightly disowned what force made them endure ’ . |
2 | As for the three goblins , they crept back to the king of the vookodlaks and he beat them all , and made them stand on their heads in the mud for three years and thirty days . |
3 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
4 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
5 | In the Muslim world their impotence made them perfect harem guards and they rose to power as chamberlains , governors and even generals . |
6 | I made them suffer and gradually the fear went , but it left a — a sort of boiling rage . ’ |
7 | She made them walk backwards and forwards , and then trot . |
8 | Oxford gave Villa plenty to think about though ; made them sweat , had them panicking near the end and big Ron Atkinson was on the touchline to martial things . |
9 | ( Later ) They wanted to give Lenin tea and to treat him to speeches of welcome , but he made them talk about tactics . |
10 | Instead we made them talk about where they lived and about their families . |
11 | He often wondered what they did in there that made them scream and shout as they ran out . |
12 | The competition made them decide to move to Easingwold , some 22 miles away as the crow flies and nearer 28 miles along the winding roads . |
13 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
14 | When their work was framed they preferred the frames to be ‘ en fuite ’ , or to project the canvas forward , rather than traditional frames which enclosed paintings and made them recede . |
15 | The clear autumn day drew to a close and Corbett made them rest their horses for a while . |
16 | He made them sing softly and then to sing loudly — smoking a cigar and strolling up and down with his walking-cane he had everyone in the audience completely under his control . |
17 | Our traditional British reserve made them think we were very hostile and resented them being here , and their extrovert camaraderie we regarded as showing off . |
18 | They were just blobs of ink — but we made them think |
19 | ‘ You made them think . ’ |
20 | On occasion the underlying philosophy was extremely crude , recommending that ‘ if you provided them with footballs and made them kick footballs , they would not be so inclined to kick policemen in the street ’ . |
21 | Having recovered the sail , we made them bleed the line . |
22 | This made them hold the glider down and often caused overspeeding or even overrunning of the cable or parachute . |
23 | A teacher at the junior high school in the town of Kizu made them hold negative and positive terminals while he turned on an electric current . |
24 | Clare Short , Labour MP for Ladywood , who raised the issue in the Commons in January , said : ‘ I think the West Midlands Police were trying to brush the matter under the carpet and it was only pressure from MPs and the media that made them do anything . ’ |
25 | My soldiers were guarding the master copies of the very instructions that made them do the guarding . |
26 | They say that the flabby reaction to the Gulf War ( and the lack of reaction to their vague anti-Gulf War B-side ‘ Riding On Through ’ ) made them realise they needed to be more specific . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei 's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again . |
29 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
30 | What if it made them go deeper ? |