Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse . |
| 2 | ‘ My parents made me do it . |
| 3 | On the other , my parents made me feel horrible , guilty . |
| 4 | When I was 19 my parents made me leave home , and after a series of disastrous relationships I became pregnant . |
| 5 | Or when Tom says , ‘ My teacher made me stay in today ’ , parents would do well to resist the temptation to answer , ‘ Now what have you done ? ’ , or ‘ I suppose you deserved it ’ , replies which would have inflamed his feelings . |
| 6 | My husband made me wait while I was in labour till a game finished ! |
| 7 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 8 | A jolt of pain in my head made me wonder whether it was such a good idea . |
| 9 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 10 | Er every night they used to play cards and when I was eighteen my father made me learn cards . |
| 11 | My father made me attend evening lectures for a time on sound , light , and heat — with no effect . ’ |
| 12 | We left the bar together ; one of my friends saw us leave and winked at us . |
| 13 | The insanity of my reality made me feel stupid and powerless . |
| 14 | The woman who stamped my passport made me change money with her and she robbed me . |
| 15 | Even when we were at home , neighbours and friends from all parts of the country came to look at me , and my master made me work hard to amuse them . |
| 16 | Added the keyboard-playing star : ‘ Raymond , my close friends and my family helped me come to terms with my depression . |
| 17 | My mother made me promise to have only one glass — and I 've had two already . " |
| 18 | My mother made me take up tap dancing , because I 'd got sparrow legs . |
| 19 | The ceremony was thus quite depressing when I had to sit and listen to a boring , unknown , dreary , old codger who was ‘ GIVEN ’ an honorary degree — which course did he attend ? |
| 20 | ‘ Which part did they go to ? ’ |
| 21 | So erm , if we run out , we run out Which whisky did you get ? |
| 22 | If such developments in Finnegans Wake were an augur and a prophecy , what did they prophesy ; which literature did they inaugurate ? |
| 23 | Which university did you say ? ’ |
| 24 | He poured out so much passion that she melted against him , completely willing , enslaved , and his hand moved impatiently to the zip of her dress , moving it down until the cool night air on her skin made her shiver . |
| 25 | ‘ Which direction did they go in ? |
| 26 | Which striker did he overtake in Liverpool 's goal scoring charts ? |
| 27 | Only when they saw the hooded men with blood-covered knives approaching their cars did they realise what lay in store for them . |
| 28 | This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers . |
| 29 | He tried earnestly to look cheerful , but their words made him shake with fear , sweat and turn hot and cold . |
| 30 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |