Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child 's breathless wailing calmed by the firm slap of the father 's hand , a dead ant revived by the careless press of a passing sole , a wounded finger healed and sealed by the knife 's blade : anything like that made me flinch and veer . |
| 2 | Later , when lucidity returned to him , the recollection of that made him blush and cringe , but at the time he did not care . |
| 3 | That made you cough and blink . |
| 4 | The road ran through seemingly interminable pine forests with little to encourage us to stop and explore , and we covered over 1300 kilometres in thirty hours . |
| 5 | Often this made him laugh and hug her . |
| 6 | This allows us to send and receive files ( as distinct from but including messages ) between computers . |
| 7 | It is you they need , and your skills they must be prepared to help you to adapt and improve . |
| 8 | He looked sidelong at the black box , half expecting it to explode or emit strange musical tones . |
| 9 | Some people tell us to keep Moby on a tight lead and only walk him in one or two places ; others tell us not to let him off the lead as his bones are n't yet strong enough to take the strain ; some tell us to relax and hope he grows out of it . |
| 10 | This helps me concentrate and drift into more intense areas of thought . |
| 11 | Tales like this inspired him to go and explore for himself ; and apart from them he had another reason . |
| 12 | How much more bad publicity do the Government have to get on the failure of their housing programme from the Duke of Edinburgh , Conservative councillors and their supporters around the country before they do what we are all asking them to do and undertake a planned release of the capital receipts ? |
| 13 | You know the housing office If say you 've got need any repairs or anything , if you 've got any problems , do you do you use them at all do you go and go and see them ? |
| 14 | For instance , when coaching people in the carve gybe , rather than simply say ‘ Bend zee knees ’ which has little effect , it is better to ask them to try and get their knees to touch the water as they bank into the turn . |
| 15 | Also , they can all help you make and eat scrambled egg for tea . |
| 16 | Instead , he had appeared happy to let her come and go unpestered , although , like Mary , but not yet so acutely , he had been aware of a deeper affinity . |
| 17 | After I moved to my apartment in the Hotel España I kept hoping I might be able to persuade you to come and share it , or at least to take the one next to mine , which was empty . |
| 18 | Fortunately the man was able to let her weep and talk about the pain . |
| 19 | If they do , it is thought unwise to allow them to come and settle in this country by and large . |
| 20 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 21 | Only after unsuccessful attempts in 1949 , 1950 , and 1951 did he seek and find funds for a new boat , called , like all his cars and boats , ‘ Bluebird ’ . |
| 22 | An extremist of the Right he is interested in the welfare of the people only in so far as some concession to their welfare is necessary to enable him to gain and retain dictatorial leadership . |
| 23 | This assignment is necessary to enable us to try and recover from suppliers and compensation paid to clients and associated costs as a result of personal injury to clients caused by the negligence , of those suppliers . |
| 24 | Take as few notes as possible but sufficient to enable you to recall and revise all the essential content — that is , the key ideas , concepts , theories , etc . |
| 25 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |