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 ?
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