Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [noun] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I let the housecoat fall open , but he just sat there with me on his lap . |
| 2 | By that stage I was already working at the Canadian Embassy , and I let the staff buy some of the pictures from me , but again it was very cheaply . |
| 3 | Then I hear the line go dead . |
| 4 | I heard the clock strike each successive hour , and I fear my mother fared no better , for she had promised to wake her ( in ordinary circumstances ) sleepy-headed son . |
| 5 | The woman I 'm staying with comes from a mining family , and as I was watching the news I heard the ironing board creaking in the kitchen . |
| 6 | I heard the buzzer go four times . |
| 7 | The day starts for me when , while deep inside a dream , I feel the man lie full length on top of me , over the covers , to kiss me goodbye . |
| 8 | I remembered that I too hated the dust , and as I imagined the walk into the desert I felt the sky come low and very close . |
| 9 | Should I let the dust settle first ? |
| 10 | Unfortunately it is exactly these thoughts and behaviours which make the panic attack worse , make us terrified of having another and make us begin to avoid any and every situation where it could possibly happen again . |
| 11 | Quite often erm when it 's men and women speaking the men will interrupt a little more erm which makes the women fall silent . |
| 12 | The lower slopes glowed with sunshine on old bracken , the upper slopes glittered with sunshine on new snow and , in between , there was and is a great deal of heather , which makes the group appear dark and glowering from many viewpoints . |
| 13 | They also provide a context which makes the grammar work meaningful and enjoyable . |
| 14 | Up your eye contact early in the presentation , so you make the status-player feel important . |
| 15 | ‘ Sit down , Terry , you make the place look untidy , ’ Plummer told him , smiling at Hitch , who grinned back as his companion sat down hurriedly . |
| 16 | Then she let the door swing shut and went into her bedroom , feeling the tears sting her eyes like hot needles , her mouth trembling as she moved to her wardrobe , got her case , unzipped it and began blindly packing everything she could fit inside . |
| 17 | We let the day grow old along the grass . |
| 18 | At my Granny 's we hear the Parkhead roar all afternoon if Celtic is playing at home , and we take the train home from Carntyne station where a nauseatingly bad smell fills the air . |
| 19 | If ‘ we hear the key turn each in his prison ’ , it may be a satisfaction to find occasionally that entry rather than closure is being sought ; for while he had a great many acquaintances and , as his fame increased , hundreds who wanted to meet him if only in order to say they had done so , he lacked relationships which were simple , straightforward , and stable . |
| 20 | Lagerfeld hisses , ‘ We do the set like this , it looks beautiful , rather Forties , no ? |
| 21 | How did they make the stuff hold all that water ? |
| 22 | they make the container look untidy ; often neighbouring plants will fill the spaces vacated . |
| 23 | they make the trains run late |
| 24 | With all this hype and cheap talk they make the game look ignorant . |
| 25 | The shop was so dark that they let the light burn all day . |
| 26 | As they watched the enemy approach this , Seton and Ramsay nodded grimly . |
| 27 | Before dinner , John , who was so laid-back he made the trees seem neurotic , offered us a yoga lesson . |
| 28 | He let the sentence hang unfinished , and she shivered , struck anew by the danger she 'd voluntarily placed herself in . |
| 29 | Parks claimed that he was n't even aware of what was happening till he heard the door slam shut as the thieves made their escape . |
| 30 | He heard the hatch hiss open and looked back at Chang Shih-sen . |