Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The on the only thing is sometimes if you a if you ask some of these people to do these things I know it 's not a lot of responsibility but do you reckon it goes to his head ? |
| 2 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 3 | The woman was slim , dark , and well made , with an air of reserve that made one take her seriously . |
| 4 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 5 | ‘ She never stopped chattering through the entire performance and of course that made everybody look at her . ’ |
| 6 | Multipage and multiple spreadsheets have been made easier to use in version 5.5 by the inclusion of icons that let you move forwards and backwards between pages and spreadsheets — these are the double arrows in the third section down in the Tool Bar . |
| 7 | At least in the post-Gazza era in which we now find ourselves , several soldiers have admitted to a level of fear that makes them cry their eyes out . |
| 8 | She said anyway she was away to make a wee cup of tea and did I take sugar ? |
| 9 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 10 | Rebel Males by Graham McCann ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.99 ) — Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean , the subjects of this literate and readable study , pioneered a new kind of rebel as screen hero : they exuded primeval , ambiguous sexuality , and were not afraid of roles that made them look vulnerable , foolish or insecure . |
| 11 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 12 | We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ? |
| 13 | If you can , try to do some form of exercise that makes you breathe hard for about ten minutes each day . |
| 14 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 15 | Seeing that Teclis could not be dissuaded , the High Loremaster gifted him with the War Crown of Saphery and let him go . |
| 16 | Oh I can imagine it being a bit strained off and on with er two lots of parents or do they know each other well and everything ? |
| 17 | This feeling is only likely to be reinforced by the realisation that the underlying technology used by most players — the set of chips that makes them tick — comes from a very limited number of sources . |
| 18 | Approaches that have tended to over-emphasise the cost aspects of RMI and to make it appear as a finance-driven system tend to alienate the service provider groups and often meet with resistance at clinician level . |
| 19 | They trust me with bunches of keys and let me phone my sister . |
| 20 | well in the end I expect there 'll be a lot of places that do it do n't you ? |
| 21 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 22 | It was the kind of sound that made you think of the noise lambs probably make when they can smell the mint being brought in from the garden . |
| 23 | Exactly how he achieved this I can not explain except to say that he had a kind of eloquence that made you think he was speaking to you personally and the gift of a born story-teller . |
| 24 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 25 | It 's the promise of guns that makes them co-operate with Midwinter . |
| 26 | He was always a lot of fun and made me laugh . ’ |
| 27 | Lamarck is presented to us as a man misunderstood , misrepresented , undeservedly neglected and as the subject of calumnies that made him appear as ‘ the enemy of religion and teleology , even as a mechanistic materialist ’ . |
| 28 | She has the sort of smile that makes you think that any minute now she 's going to put her head on one side , but she never does . |
| 29 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 30 | Then she drank a glass of water and felt it trickle slowly down inside her as if she were a pipe . |