Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Head of Department : ‘ We already make them purchase a pad plus two HB pencils — total £1·50 for Art for the parents . |
| 2 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 3 | People tend to assume that parents of mentally handicapped children and those who work with them are gifted with abnormal powers of patience and understanding , or suffused with some form of religious or social awareness that make them adopt a sacrificial purpose in life . |
| 4 | All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ . |
| 5 | Er , make me feel an idiot ! |
| 6 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 7 | ‘ People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot ’ |
| 8 | ‘ At the moment , ’ she says , ‘ the people in Liverpool make me laugh a lot . ’ |
| 9 | People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’ |
| 11 | If ever Ari and Bernard had a tiff , Laura would take Ari on one side , explain all Bernard 's good points and the difficulties he had encountered and then ‘ make me write a letter saying how I respected him . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ All these changes , changes of circumstances and the change of the season , make me fear a change of rhythm and atmosphere . |
| 13 | I would agree that a hypnotist could not , for example , make me attack an innocent person . |
| 14 | D' ya mean a special kind of mattress be |
| 15 | How d' ya move a country ? |
| 16 | How d' ya move a country ? |
| 17 | D' ya want a cup of Dawn ? |
| 18 | D' ya want a |
| 19 | d' ya want a coffee ? |
| 20 | D' ya want a biscuit ? |
| 21 | D' ya want a biscuit ? |
| 22 | D' ya want a chocolate one ? |
| 23 | D' ya want a game of table tennis ? |
| 24 | and d' ya have a lot of ? |
| 25 | D' ya have a good good da |
| 26 | D' ya get a lot of kids in there ? |
| 27 | ‘ Jeez , how on earth d' ya take a bath and how is your love life ’ were presumably part of the empathy process from Gerry and his audience almost comatose with voyeurism and in need of splints for drop-jaw . |
| 28 | Why d' ya take a picture ? |
| 29 | D' you fancy a quick drink ? ’ |
| 30 | seventy six and what d' you think a cabinet minister 's on ? |