Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They clutched each other and fell about , it made them laugh so much . |
| 32 | A whispering shriek of rage and terror behind them made them jump out of their skins . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 ! |
| 36 | A shout made them look up . |
| 37 | The clothes of skinhead girls made them look superficially like the boys . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | To be imprisoned side by side with them in the male domain made them look forward beyond Karlinsky 's address to the regular Saturday-night social in the communal hall next door when they would be able to get together , relax and talk without constraint . |
| 40 | When we returned together to Ninfania , you and I , in the late Fifties , there was litter in the streets of southern Italy , and it made them look more unfamiliar to you than the new buildings put up after the war and the bombing . |
| 41 | Although some of its own experiments were now showing that air pollution in southern England damaged leaves and made them fall early from trees , it could not bring itself to say as much . |
| 42 | The other guests will just be two of my colleagues and their wives , to whom I owe hospitality ’ — the way he said it made them sound utterly negligible , almost beneath contempt . |
| 43 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 44 | It was not the ever-present guard or the commandant 's threats that made them work so devotedly . |
| 45 | That 's what we are prepared for because when I saw Lithuania play the Danes a couple of weeks ago they made them work hard for everything they got . |
| 46 | It shows that about three-quarters of the male respondents replied that the tax system had no influence on their work effort , 15 per cent replied that it made them work more and 11 per cent that it made them work less . |
| 47 | He wore the same sombre clothes as Lever , a wine red pau that made them seem more like clerks than the heirs to great Companies . |
| 48 | Nowadays , of course , we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious . |
| 49 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Having poured some water into a bowl , she made them kneel around , with their hands together as in church . |
| 52 | He forced the couple into the vestibule of a bank in Brunswick Street where he made them take off their clothing . |
| 53 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 54 | The bends were sharp and the sideways gravity made them roll helplessly . |
| 55 | So she declined , then immediately regretted it , because she realised it might have pleased him , made them complicit together . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | When the prophet Ezekiel was in the valley of bones he prophesied to the bones and made them join up together . |
| 58 | The hot car seats stung the children 's bare legs and made them cry out in protest . |
| 59 | The squeak of the stable door made them turn round . |
| 60 | Unfortunately that did n't make them go away . |