Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , it was great to see them go back into the wild when they were old enough . ’ |
| 2 | Both were short , dumpy and energetic and , seeing them scurry together down the street in their black garb , they looked like a pair of hunting spiders . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The clothes of skinhead girls made them look superficially like the boys . |
| 5 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 6 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 7 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 8 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 9 | As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go . |
| 10 | This has been pointed out by Lind ( 1983 : 271 ) , who adduces the following examples to show that there is " no correlation between active participation and omission of to " : ( 23 ) … he said briefly , helping me climb in through the rear window . |
| 11 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 12 | You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself . |
| 13 | Despite an unhappy ending , ‘ The Disappearance ’ contains a lot of energy which made me come away from the book feeling hopeful and while I learnt more about the characters , I also found I learnt more about myself and my feelings towards family life and friends . |
| 14 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 15 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 16 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 17 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 18 | Carradine helped me get out of the diner , but I did n't feel so bad . |
| 19 | ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added . |
| 20 | How d' ya get on at the dentist ? |
| 21 | In the matter of these smaller " possessions " , you might have thought that he would have let you get away with the things which you could not possibly do without , a set of fish-knives , for example , which had been a wedding present , or a " sketch of the Himalayas as seen from Darjeeling . |
| 22 | ‘ D' you go out in the evening ? ’ asked Patrice McKechnie . |
| 23 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 24 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 25 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 26 | I helped him sit down on the one centre thwart and arranged his legs as comfortably as possible , Harry cursing and wincing by turns . |
| 27 | When he was naked , she helped him climb on to the desk . |
| 28 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him . |
| 30 | She let it fall back into the water when she heard what John had told Larry . |