Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy to convince him of his worthlessness-to make him believe he was capable of such an act . |
| 2 | Her work refuses any concession to polite conventions of ‘ good taste ’ , indeed her fleshy pinks and pulsing reds make us squirm with embarrassed recognition , reminding us of the ‘ nasty ’ things we do at home — after the guests have gone . |
| 3 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 4 | If Ackerley derived any satisfaction from this rough , rackety , frustrated life it was in his work at The Listener , where his enlightened editorial policies make him sound like a reviewer 's dream ( he telephoned contributors at midnight to query the removal of a comma ) . |
| 5 | In fact , the numbers of Punch aficionados make me worry that the same end will come to the comp complex as came to Punch . |
| 6 | ‘ The scripts make me sound very smart and I like that , ’ he said . |
| 7 | This situation is far more benign than people obsessed with freedom make it sound , because what comes to us by no choice of our own is a gift — a whole world which we could not possibly have made and at which , in spite of all its horrors , we can on the whole only bow our heads in wonder . |
| 8 | What sort of a racehorse d' you think you get for a hundred quid ? |
| 9 | ‘ They had any luck d' you know ? ’ |
| 10 | GABI TUBBS 'S COOL AND AIRY SETTINGS MAKE YOU DREAM OF BED IN SUMMER |
| 11 | Granddad make you laugh ? |
| 12 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
| 13 | REPORTS about Vinny Jones being the hardest man in football make me smile . |
| 14 | I find I can get up a rhythm with this simple notation , more irregular passes with the lace carriage make me lose count . |
| 15 | … labels make us feel exclusive . |
| 16 | The subtitle is ‘ Making Feminist Sense of International Politics ’ , and those very words make you realize how little we are used to seeing feminist analysis applied to the ebbs and flows of global power . |
| 17 | The low morbidity and excellent functional results of pouch construction with ablation of all colonic disease and the anal mucosa among patients with familial adenomatous polyposis make us believe that this is the operation of choice in most patients for this disease . |
| 18 | Anyway , what knowledge of football d' ya need to manage a bunch of plonkers in the Third Division ? |
| 19 | Is that the telephone 's fault d' ya think or is that fault I mean salesman coming in as well . |
| 20 | So in see things that you can do in future let me know . |
| 21 | ‘ The manufacturers let her have things , you know . |
| 22 | I know for a fact she 's had her eye on my mother 's matinée jacket collection for years and when I once , in passing , said I wondered what happened to those old prosthetic devices in the estates of deceased senior citizens , Madge let it slip that she knew a way of turning a Zimmer frame into an attractive lamp ! ’ |
| 23 | The problem comes in many forms , but for the sake of brevity let me concentrate on pollution . |
| 24 | mummy let me have my blanket . |
| 25 | Look what mummy let me have , look what I 've |
| 26 | With these difficulties in mind let us approach a second theory of review put forward by Gordon . |
| 27 | Bearing these points in mind let us look at developments in each of the main policy areas over the whole period . |
| 28 | Corbett let it drop as the trumpets brayed again and royal serjeants-at-arms , staves in their hands , moved into the hall and began to impose order . |
| 29 | Not that the journalists let her get away with quite everything . |
| 30 | For our second experiment let us take the opposite tack . |