Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had heard them come in very late . |
| 2 | Still , it was great to see them go back into the wild when they were old enough . ’ |
| 3 | Now what sort of pay formula would you like to see them come up with ? |
| 4 | The buggers want to see me go under . |
| 5 | She wanted to see me grow up , it was as simple as that , but it 's those simple things that are sometimes the hardest to accept . ’ |
| 6 | People have me in a little pocket of their minds in that role [ Ben Braddock ] and they do n't want to see me get out of it . |
| 7 | I only wish Tata had lived to see me take up my place at Bedford College . |
| 8 | But biological weapons are unlikely to be much used on troops in combat , mainly because of the difficulties of getting the aerosols on to them without seeing them drift back on to those who released them . |
| 9 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 10 | The sharp night air made them step out . |
| 11 | As they reached Allen 's side a voice broke the stillness and made them spin round . |
| 12 | What we do n't know is what they had in common that made them end up where they did . ’ |
| 13 | A whispering shriek of rage and terror behind them made them jump out of their skins . |
| 14 | Throwing the contact-breaker caused the overhead lights to flare briefly , and a well-aimed thump on the side of the box made them come back up . |
| 15 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
| 16 | All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name ! |
| 17 | A shout made them look up . |
| 18 | Breeze and Gay were turning their steps towards Sunset Cottage when a terrific hoot made them look round ; and there was the Blessington-Dalrymples ' car , with Basil at the wheel and his parents and sister behind . |
| 19 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 20 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 21 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 22 | Having poured some water into a bowl , she made them kneel around , with their hands together as in church . |
| 23 | He forced the couple into the vestibule of a bank in Brunswick Street where he made them take off their clothing . |
| 24 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 25 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 26 | When the prophet Ezekiel was in the valley of bones he prophesied to the bones and made them join up together . |
| 27 | The hot car seats stung the children 's bare legs and made them cry out in protest . |
| 28 | The squeak of the stable door made them turn round . |
| 29 | to sort of make them go round |
| 30 | That 'd make them sit up and realise they ca n't get away with desecrating any bit of wild country they can get their hands on … ‘ |