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Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He made me dress in erotic underwear and to dress as his sex slave .
2	They made me feel of some value again and the warmth was flooding through me long before the kettle had boiled on the iron stove in the corner .
3	This made me feel in later life that I was very unattractive , because I had had so many negative thoughts about my appearance earlier in my life .
4	It made me think of that voodoo thing which hangs round graveyards and wears a top hat . ’
5	The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam .
6	‘ You made me rise to that bait , did n't you ? ’
7	She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’
8	She let him go without further protest .
9	He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed .
10	Mike let her go with rueful amusement in his dark eyes as she made her way towards the lift , having refused all offers of help with her overnight bag , which she slung over one shoulder .
11	She ‘ let her mask of moderate respectability slip yesterday ’ , it says .
12	‘ What made you decide on this trip ? ’
13	What made you jump at that moment ?
14	At first , so Coleridge improbably claimed , Walsh thought he had been found out : ‘ for he heard me talk of one Spy Nozy , which he was inclined to interpret of himself , and of a remarkable feature belonging to him ’ .
15	I heard you talk about this hotel .
16	She heard him reach for another sandwich .
17	I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not .
18	A sudden shout made her look to one side .
19	It made him think about last night 's events .
20	He wished he had n't spotted it as it made him think of this morning and going round the house in Hill View Road , and the idea his Mum and Dad had about moving .
21	The story is , that in bygone days before the advent of the white man , there was a young Siwash Indian whose ardent love of nature made him come to that point of land on the inlet every day to watch the sunset .
22	If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys .
23	Coarse Angling team saw them finish in fourth place , just 10 points away from a medal position , in the World Freshwater Angling Championships .
24	She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods .
25	Kāli stood outside and shouted , ‘ Hiu āgo ! ’ and , tilting her head back , mouth open wide , watched the flakes fall about her and felt them melt like icy duck-down on the warmth of her outstretched tongue .
26	I saw you disappear in this direction , and decided it was now or never . ’
27	All she knew was when they began to leave the straggling apartment block on the edge of town , because she felt him slide into another gear and the engine opened out with a deep growl , and then they were climbing , climbing , following the sinuous trail deep into a cleft in the mountains .
28	Spencer failed to retain his card this year after his debut season on the Volvo European Tour which saw him finish in 178th position in the Order of Merit with winnings of just £7,700 .
29	I 've had one of your chaps round already , asking whether I saw him go by that evening . ’
30	Did n't we have a similar streak about four/five years ago , i.e. the last year Bremner was in charge — this saw us shoot up the second division before an ignominous defeat against Shrewsbury Town ( who ? ) saw us plummet to mid table yet again .