Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herr Schikenader , the former proprietor , chanced to see me perform one evening . |
| 2 | By setting this film against a backdrop of the London Underground , Christine Halsall and Steven Sprung made us feel inextricably woven into this madness . |
| 3 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
| 4 | A.A. personnel reported seeing it crash , and Robertson was credited with its destruction . |
| 5 | The vast majority of you said either a 486 or 486SX computer , so we 've created an Interactive Advice program tailored to help you choose the best 486 . |
| 6 | God knows the ways you found to help him fritter away his fortune . ’ |
| 7 | I can imagine there 'll be one or two unhappy people if they find out I 've even taken you walkies let alone tried to help you plug the blueness into reality . |
| 8 | The new leaflet ( enclosed ) designed to help you sell membership on YOUR CLASS , includes application form . |
| 9 | Chris promised to help me buy the drinks and organize the that side of it getting the drinks . |
| 10 | We need to follow up the contacts already made when we invited comment on the idea of a course ( in any case , I promised to let them know what happened ) . |
| 11 | The manager of the Hotel España was very kind and thoughtful : he would have to let my apartment while I was away , should anyone want it , but promised to let me have it back when I returned after the funeral . |
| 12 | Celia promised to let me know , but I have n't seen her for weeks . ’ |
| 13 | I promised to let him know when Edgar Linton was away from home . |
| 14 | Only when they reached Temple Stairs and disembarked did he put one podgy arm round Athelstan 's shoulders and press his face closer to that of the friar . |
| 15 | So she helped Did she help with the childbirth as well ? |
| 16 | Somehow I sort of mentioned do you know what I mean ? |
| 17 | I tried to make him understand that Brian had n't done anything wrong . |
| 18 | I tried to make him understand , but he refused to listen to me . |
| 19 | She tried to make him look at her . |
| 20 | In a ghost story she wrote : ‘ Night after night for weeks she tried to make him come … ’ |
| 21 | The first few times the carabiniere on duty became impatient and tried to make him come out , but the only answer he got was that the prisoner was feeling extremely unwell and wanted please to be left alone . |
| 22 | I tried to make them stay , but they would not . " |
| 23 | To begin with the little-uns looked on Piggy as their parental figure because he always acted like an adult in their eyes and tried to make them laugh . |
| 24 | For him these first moments of meeting each day were so exciting an elixir that he always tried to make them last as long as possible , and the sight of her in full flight on her bicycle never failed to set his blood tingling . |
| 25 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |
| 26 | Clinton Hadley fondled the breasts of his victims , aged from 18 to 26 , and tried to make them strip ‘ to relax ’ , a jury was told . |
| 27 | we tried to make her look like a person . |
| 28 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 29 | Yet when I first came , you tried to make me think your position here was untenable . |
| 30 | I had a teacher for all of three months tried to make me write with my right hand . |