Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 2 | Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
| 5 | Well some of the questions you think erm you think erm you know , are n't they a bit well way out or what made them ask that . |
| 6 | they 've made it so as it , it do , you see I , I , I reckon you ought to open my let me make them in te in steel because er they made them like that so that when you pull them off or adjust them |
| 7 | But Graham and Russell , if anything more composed , made them defend that advantage , and the Chelsea defence responded with a disorder to which only Ken Monkou was an exception . |
| 8 | Often he made them criticize each other 's work . |
| 9 | ‘ The pleasure of being top , and nothing else , except the interest of my father , made me do such homework as I did in the evenings … . |
| 10 | Oh , I do n't know what made me do that , rotten thing to do , that was . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't believe you made me do that ! ’ |
| 12 | Doing all that TV stuff made me realise that , no , what I 'm interested in is pure movement . |
| 13 | Pride made me disguise this . |
| 14 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 15 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 16 | The Gay Black Group also made me think much more of the implications of being a man , of being an oppressor as well as someone who is oppressed . |
| 17 | Every time they came forward , you expected something to happen ( perhaps It was sitting in the north bank with the Cockney scum that made me think this ! ! ) . |
| 18 | The worst day we were out here working on the garden and it made me think this must be what it was like in the trenches |
| 19 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 20 | Well what , what sort of made me say that was because er across the crevy well at least all these travel ones are |
| 21 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 22 | Thanks once again for a charming picture — it made me smile all day . |
| 23 | For my good lady loved singing and dancing and made me learn both . |
| 24 | And the passage we are to look at today made me ask several ‘ Why ? ’ questions , and in the next few minutes , I want to try and share the questions … and some answers … with you . |
| 25 | She nearly made me have that , eh , other one , did n't she ? |
| 26 | But then , when I come to think and ask myself what made me like this , I have n't far to seek the answer . |
| 27 | As the hon. Gentleman said , he let me know some of his particular areas of interest in advance . |
| 28 | So the A fifty nine well let me put it let me put another question , does the A sixty one serve a similar function to the A fifty nine ? |
| 29 | he let them have that , yeah , as soon as he starts crying . |
| 30 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |