Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 31 | It shows signs of spreading , which made me think it must be lead and , therefore , a .22 . |
| 32 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 33 | It was n't a sound I ever remembered him having made , but certain things about it made me think it came from Quigley . |
| 34 | She made me repeat it five times . |
| 35 | ‘ William made me sell it . |
| 36 | ‘ That horrible Virginia Colton bought it , or should I say made me buy it ? |
| 37 | He made me put it down and began a long , fast conversation with the soldier . |
| 38 | But you made me fight it , and I did . |
| 39 | She made me see it , and the different evergreens , and the red berries and the dogwood and the sheltered bench and the silvery fish in the little pool … |
| 40 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 41 | In order to teach potential students the value of laundry work you make them do it for a while . |
| 42 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 43 | Make me see it , ’ and Grainne turned back . |
| 44 | I 've let them know it 's , it 's going ahead erm and that the vote is coming off . |
| 45 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 46 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 47 | Well can I can I amend my question I mean is the is that a full year cost or is it let me try it again erm . |
| 48 | He let me hold it once . |
| 49 | We can make another baby , Herta and I. If I wept copiously both before and after , she let me do it , or try it , but I am impotent and do n't even go to the whores any more . |
| 50 | Got you got erm a pair of two lovers er , a woman 's house got burnt down and the man next door went down there and helped them build it up . |
| 51 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 52 | Me and your mam did one this morning , I had about twenty minutes left on it and she helped me finish it off |
| 53 | She helped me carry it far along the dunes , dutifully clutching the lines and winch to her flat little chest and clicking the ratchet on the drum , until we reached a point well out of sight from the house . |
| 54 | Annie helped me put it on . |
| 55 | What d' ya reckon it 's not it 's not recover like when you 're finding something is it ? |
| 56 | Yeah , why d' ya snap it in half ? |
| 57 | Why d' ya forget it ? |
| 58 | Wendy , housewife , age fifty er how d' ya stop it ? |
| 59 | When d' ya do it ? |
| 60 | D' ya want it for your dinner love ? |