Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central position which the Communists occupied in these campaigns was a result of their international connections , which made them appear as the principal opponents of Fascism . |
| 2 | He made them sound like the Famous Five |
| 3 | He made them sound like the Famous Five . |
| 4 | ‘ Handiman made everyone think about the handicapped person in their family that it 's easy to deny , ’ says Damon , who may have found the character 's roots in his own childhood club foot . |
| 5 | There were times when Joanna 's somewhat footslogging performance made me long for the thoroughbred feel of Lisa , but I had an affection for Joanna and she had one advantage over Lisa — her small cuddy where I could cook and sleep , and be independent of the land . |
| 6 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 7 | They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them . |
| 8 | Two external consultants helped them focus on the key issues . |
| 9 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 10 | I 'm sure a healthy body leads to a healthy mind and that helped me cope with the daily pressures of newspaper life . ’ |
| 11 | Her blood seemed to have turned into heavy oil in her body , and something was dragging her down so ruthlessly that she let herself fall into the harsh carpet of pebbles . |
| 12 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 13 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 14 | And he let us climb to the top deck of the car , with a much better view of the route , this being usually reserved for smokers . |
| 15 | We had grown together not just in terms of affection but in our attitudes , in our views on personal dignity and in a mutual trust that helped us deal with the curious life we now shared . |
| 16 | One manager who tried out the forms says ‘ They helped us attend to the little things that parents do without thinking , like making sure children have had their immunisations and following them up if they 're missed . |
| 17 | Dry clash 'd his harness in the icy caves |
| 18 | The pale blue tights , moulded over bulging thighs , of the male trapeze artists , that made you think about the flattened bulge between their legs . |
| 19 | Miss Bruce 's distaste for innovation made itself manifest in the dreary proposals served up to the Conservative and Labour governments in the seventies — whenever a request for names for public duties arrived in her in-tray , the same roll-call of has-beens fell out of her out-tray . |
| 20 | He made one tour in the early 1830s , when already ill and enfeebled . |
| 21 | We made one change for the second week of interviewing . |
| 22 | Once , however , Master threw the stick and Sergeant went to retrieve it , and the dog heard something rustle in the long reeds that grew beside the canal . |
| 23 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 24 | It made him long for the open fields of the island , again . |
| 25 | She took him into the living-room and made him sit in the black leather armchair . |
| 26 | The lepers made him think about the two who lurked in the cemetery of St Erconwald . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 28 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 29 | As for Forrester , Whelan , Bowman etc I got the impression that it was more desparation that made him turn to the younger players , granted their performances were top notch but I think the injury situation had more to do with it than Wilko 's judgement , after all where are they now ? ? ? |
| 30 | Eight of their first 10 concerts were in Leeds but a rare excursion saw them appear at the Old Bell pub in Derby . |