Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 32 | It also made me realise the risk of skyline walking . |
| 33 | He was terrific and made me realise the only reason I had these thoughts was because of the enormous love I have for you . |
| 34 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 35 | Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans . |
| 36 | Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it . |
| 37 | But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth . |
| 38 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 39 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 40 | ‘ Once Stalin made me dance the Gopak , squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels , ’ writes Khrushchev , an image hard to call up in view of his shape , but — ‘ When Stalin says ‘ Dance ’ , a wise man dances , ’ added the peasant proverb-spinner in his accustomed vein . |
| 41 | Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people : those who knew what they wanted to do ; those ( the unhappiest ) who never knew what their purpose in life was ; and those who found out later on . |
| 42 | ‘ If I 'd been bad he made me copy the notices and labels in cases . |
| 43 | Michael made me write the letter — three men are coming to kill you — three of the Six ! |
| 44 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 45 | It was pure chance that made me notice the writing on the top file , as I pushed open the window . |
| 46 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 47 | Lady Augusta xenophobically added : ‘ … a sort of national prejudice made me attribute the grace and dignity of the scene , for what there was of either came from her , to the blood of Kirkpatrick ! ! ! ’ , a reference to Eugénie 's Scottish grandfather |
| 48 | It made me recall the list of supposed super-powers of Ardakkeans . |
| 49 | He took his job very seriously and made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists like himself . |
| 50 | Something made me snatch the woolly choirboy from its metal gallows ( even at that moment I noticed its surprising weight ) . |
| 51 | One of them sat in the back — again — and made me follow the Escort , but at least this time they were plainclothes men not uniformed , so my street cred did n't suffer . |
| 52 | The workshop session on the importance of the measurement and analysis of data made me understand the purpose of the charts and graphs displayed on office walls at Runcorn Heath . |
| 53 | Hints that merry muses were at work on Woman 's Hour that day made me re-tune the tranny to FM to catch the results . |
| 54 | It was that that made me see the other side of him . |
| 55 | I thought it would have got better by itself — it was my son who made me call the doctor ’ |
| 56 | And of course , That 's right yes , make them do the test first and of course , you may very well need some specialists depending again on as we said , whatever your team has got to do . |
| 57 | Why Sir , they blind still those they take , And make them tell the stories of their lives , Which known , they do accordingly . |
| 58 | I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant . |
| 59 | We have to tax those parking spaces , make them use the Park and Drive , but we 've got to get the carrot there first and the carrot is a much better operated Park and Drive . |
| 60 | The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line . |