Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 2 | I sat in my pew and heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half . |
| 3 | until I opened my mouth and heard myself say it . |
| 4 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 5 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 6 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 7 | Imagine , said Francis , that I returned to Perugia on the darkest of nights , a night so cold that everything is covered with snow , and the frost in the folds of my habit hits my legs and makes them bleed . |
| 8 | It was extremely effective , did n't pull any punches , but had caught my eye and made me think . |
| 9 | A few monsters lay against my body and made me warm . |
| 10 | What I would like to know is : what damage is the soot doing to my fish and do I have just cause to go to the council to get something done about it ? |
| 11 | I am writing this partly to get it clear in my head and to help me make up my mind . |
| 12 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 13 | ‘ If you do n't shut up at once and sit down I shall remove my belt and let you have it with the end that has the buckle ! ’ |
| 14 | Her eyes closed , she turned her face away , released her hold on my cheekbones and let me go on into the hall . |
| 15 | The ‘ personality ’ had to conceal my natural impatience , my moods , my fatigue and make me appear endlessly dynamic and reassuring . |
| 16 | Miss Abbott , when you came to my house the other day and wandered round my studio and let me see something of your thoughts , it was as if a gale had blown through all the dust and cobwebs , all the mouldering old habits that were growing up round me like ivy , and when you had gone , I tore that canvas off the easel and smashed it — ’ |
| 17 | Take my hands and let them move |
| 18 | So after that visit to Bristol , when I went to my little chapel on that bald knoll , I first called up the white healing ball and rolled it around every part of my anatomy , then I called up my archers and let them shine the beams of their torches down onto the spot in my lung . |
| 19 | You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself . |
| 20 | oh cheerful , well his , his father was a step brother to my dad and do you know , how on earth we 're related I 'll never know |
| 21 | ‘ The practical help in developing my business plan was invaluable in focusing my idea and helping me obtain LEDU assistance ’ . |
| 22 | She runs her hands up my legs to my buttocks again , sliding her fingers between my cheeks , touching my anus and making me go up on the balls of my feet , then her hand runs back down my legs . |
| 23 | One says he do n't think so , and someone else makes a crack about reggae , and I realize this gun I had pointing at her seems to have drooped like soft rubber , so I relax my arm and let it point to the floor . |
| 24 | Self-satisfaction had given way to an impatience that said , as clearly as the words , ‘ If that 's the best you can do , stop wasting my time and let me get on with my work . ’ |
| 25 | Edward watched as I kicked off my shoes and socks , unbuckled my jeans and let them fall . |
| 26 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 27 | Carrie felt as if she were falling through space ; falling and falling with the air pressing her chest and making her gasp . |
| 28 | Surely she was still as determined as ever not to allow anyone to creep through her defences and make her care ? |
| 29 | She could feel the almost-accidental brush of his hand against her hair and felt herself flood with a warmth deeper and more insistent than the scalding heat of the water in which they were immersed . |
| 30 | He wanted to put flowers in her hair and make her laugh ; but he would never be able to do that . |