Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 2 | We pour much time , money , anxiety and effort into our children simply for the pleasure of seeing them grow into the kind of people we long for them to be . |
| 3 | On seeing them waddle down the street , like a mass of quivering flesh , we usually ran upstairs to warn Mum of the advancing horde . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance . |
| 6 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 7 | If you 'll let me , I 'll come racing with you — if you 'll make me part of the team ? ’ she finished a little anxiously . |
| 8 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 9 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 10 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 11 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 12 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 13 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 14 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 15 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 16 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , they made me go into the army . |
| 18 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 19 | In one village , suddenly raided by the army at 2am , villagers made me lie on the ground and threw a blanket over me , telling the soldiers I was an old woman , too sick to move . |
| 20 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 21 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 22 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 23 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |
| 24 | She made me get in the driver 's side and we followed a Volga police car and did a careful legal speed all the way into town . |
| 25 | In those dark days I was that uncomfortable mixture of martyr and guilty inadequate , which made me alternate between the guilt of holding people back and the fury that they did n't offer to stop without being asked . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw state policemen drag strikers across the road and make them kneel in the ditch there while they held shotguns in their backs . |
| 27 | Then Bjorn Again say ‘ thanks ’ in accents that make them sound like the chef out of The Muppet Show , and an Australian voice tells us to hurry up and spend our money on tickets for their next gig in Manchester , which , due to overwhelming demand , is happening next week . |
| 28 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |
| 29 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 30 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |