Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 32 | Her kind indulgence made me shrink a little . |
| 33 | It made me think a lot about photography while I was in prison ; it was like why are you doing this ? ’ |
| 34 | Something in me , some memory of earlier days , made me respect a woman for whom God was not only a Sunday thought . |
| 35 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 36 | When you said you came from good tough stock it made me shiver a bit . |
| 37 | It made me take a good look at what I really wanted out of men and dating . |
| 38 | I then did a physical which they made me run a mile and a half , did press ups , sit ups , which I passed . |
| 39 | They were guilty as hell over the East German business and made me look a fool . |
| 40 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
| 41 | Because I am a very poor man you made me accept a figure like six million lire ( £2,500 ) . |
| 42 | Head of Department : ‘ We already make them purchase a pad plus two HB pencils — total £1·50 for Art for the parents . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | People tend to assume that parents of mentally handicapped children and those who work with them are gifted with abnormal powers of patience and understanding , or suffused with some form of religious or social awareness that make them adopt a sacrificial purpose in life . |
| 45 | All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ . |
| 46 | Er , make me feel an idiot ! |
| 47 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 48 | ‘ People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot ’ |
| 49 | ‘ At the moment , ’ she says , ‘ the people in Liverpool make me laugh a lot . ’ |
| 50 | People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot |
| 51 | ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’ |
| 52 | If ever Ari and Bernard had a tiff , Laura would take Ari on one side , explain all Bernard 's good points and the difficulties he had encountered and then ‘ make me write a letter saying how I respected him . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ All these changes , changes of circumstances and the change of the season , make me fear a change of rhythm and atmosphere . |
| 54 | I would agree that a hypnotist could not , for example , make me attack an innocent person . |
| 55 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 56 | He picked up the receiver , and without identifying himself just said , ‘ Could n't you have let me have an hour ? |
| 57 | He let me take a box of groceries ( Sainsbury 's of course ) while he unloaded a couple of suitcases from the boot . |
| 58 | ‘ He let me become a blacksmith , which was his job too , only he never worked at it . |
| 59 | Immediately he lent me his support , his judgement and helped me find a publisher , putting me in touch with Jan Martens and the Fonds Mercator which publish admirable art books . |
| 60 | ‘ Darlington Business Venture helped me put a package together and draw up a business plan which qualified for Enterprise Allowance . ’ |