Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More commonly , he will have been given power to make laws , subject only to the controlling authority of one or both Houses of Parliament to unmake them , or to withhold the endorsement necessary for them to continue to enjoy the force of law . |
| 2 | Good advertising communicates the right message to the right people at the right time in a way that will interest or amuse them , but above all make them want to buy the product , service , or even " idea " . |
| 3 | ‘ The very thought of it makes me want to press the panic button , crawl under the bed and call for HRT , ’ says one friend . |
| 4 | ‘ The very thought of reaching 50 makes me want to press the panic button , crawl under the bed and call for HRT ’ |
| 5 | I do n't know how they 've done it but the typography on the signs makes me want to pronounce the word Edin-burg , and I live in the place , for God 's sake . |
| 6 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 7 | I am a great fan of rave music yet the lyrics have never made me want to try the drug . |
| 8 | It just makes me want to vomit the way she does that . |
| 9 | Your wife should contact your tax office , or call at the nearest local office , and ask them to arrange to open a set of records for her . |
| 10 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 11 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 12 | A few weeks before I could n't have found Madeira on a map — now what I saw made me vow to return every year . |
| 13 | But although they both tried to smile still , neither of them failed to notice the past tense she had used for the word ‘ love ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Me struggling to prove a point when all the time you 've decided , made up your mind . ’ |
| 15 | You 're going to help me make to make a birthday cake for Jim remember . |
| 16 | The three of them moved thought the ship at a speed that I can hardly describe . |
| 17 | The crisis leading to Lenihan 's dismissal arose in connection with reports that in January 1982 the Fianna Fáil leadership had attempted to persuade President Patrick Hillery by telephone to allow them to try to form a government without calling a general election . |
| 18 | He presented a strong message to the newly-qualified chemists encouraging them to try to win the confidence of the lay public by admitting to things that go wrong and telling them what was being done about it . |
| 19 | But because they are so efficient at tempting big barbel to bite in the first place I keep trying different ways of fishing with them to try to overcome the problem . |
| 20 | In the summer of 1557 , some of them tried to break the stalemate . |
| 21 | One of them tried to jump the ditch and landed on Canny , breaking his neck ( Lincoln Journal , Nebraska 28 December 1987 ) . |
| 22 | Such groups consist of closely related individuals , and in evolutionary terms at least it is worth one of them dying to help the others , in order that a predator may learn not to touch them again . |
| 23 | The proposals were rejected , however , by the rebel groups currently controlling substantial areas of the country [ see pp. 37239-40 for military setbacks for Mengistu 's forces in February ] , on the grounds that they contained nothing designed to promote a peace settlement , but rather sought to bolster the regime 's capacity to fight the war . |
| 24 | The passage will remind some readers of Chomsky 's palmier days , in linguistics rather than AI , when he would begin arguments with ‘ Obviously , everyone has internalized a grammar … ’ |
| 25 | Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time . |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe everyone has to suffer the pangs of calf love before they can recognize when it 's the real thing , ’ she said lightly . |
| 27 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 28 | The game continues until everyone has had a turn . |
| 29 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
| 30 | ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’ |