Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wanted something in Dominions , ’ I heard Ma tell one of her friends . |
| 2 | I heard Cortot play several concerts after the war , and these made me more aware than ever how important it is to give every ounce of yourself to Chopin if you want to play him well ! |
| 3 | I du n no why he did that , but when I heard Marie tell that , I felt really horrible . |
| 4 | ‘ I heard Commandant say all patients not cured will have to be disposed soon . ’ |
| 5 | I did things like that . |
| 6 | He offered no denials , which made Ruth feel ten times worse for her accusations . |
| 7 | It was a happy phrase which made people feel better , and it caught on at once ; and it has remained as a convenient label to cover the series of domestic reforms which the Roosevelt administration introduced between 1933 and 1938 . |
| 8 | One young woman , Lucy , told how sad she felt that her mother had very low self-esteem , believed she was unattractive and overweight — even said once that there was nothing she could do or be that Lucy and her sisters ‘ could n't do or be better ’ , which made Lucy feel envied and forced into competition with her mother , when she did n't want to be . |
| 9 | G. agrees that the offender has probably escaped prosecution because of his violent and aggressive demeanour which made G. think first of his personal safety . |
| 10 | In a side which included three players under 20 , it was 19-year-old David Hagan who stole the points and the glory , with a brilliant goal in a match which saw Hibs offer little resistance . |
| 11 | The appointment , which was controversial in its own right , was part of a wider constitutional controversy which saw Mulroney appoint 24 new senators within a month . |
| 12 | It was n't you who helped Mr get some trousers on that was done by the C I D when they arrived ? |
| 13 | She saw Adam take two strides to it and grip it in his hands . |
| 14 | As she watched she saw Sarah put both arms round Corrie and hug her with a joyful laugh . |
| 15 | She saw Lydia go pink , and misunderstood . |
| 16 | We could n't shorten the walk , but we made people feel better about it . |
| 17 | 35 HOW WE HELPED YURI KEEP ONE JUMP AHEAD |
| 18 | How we helped Yuri keep one jump ahead |
| 19 | Just watching her made Frankie feel warm inside . |
| 20 | They helped Scott get ready . |
| 21 | It did a particularly good job of informing people about the issues — especially if they were tabloid press readers , who could get relatively little information from the press ; and it made electors feel more warmth and commitment to the party system and party leaders generally . |
| 22 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 23 | He looked … he looked wonderful , and it made Robyn feel ten times worse . |
| 24 | Adam did not want at this point to speculate , it made hi– feel sick . |
| 25 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 26 | He proved his professionalism when he helped police catch two armed robbers at the site after raising the alarm . |
| 27 | He let Slovakia go more or less its own way under the puppet regime of Father Tiso . |
| 28 | He heard Mandru tell all the other Ixmaritians that never had he seen such eloquence of posture , such moving pathos . |
| 29 | What made people feel mass unemployment after the war was inevitable ? |
| 30 | ‘ What did Harry get stuck on ? ’ |