Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I repeated what I had seen him do . |
| 2 | But I was n't that clever , Alice , because I had to let him do it to me before , instead of after . |
| 3 | When they started dancing I did n't try and stop them because I had to let them do what they felt was right . ’ |
| 4 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |
| 5 | I 've seen them do that many times . |
| 6 | I came over it below the farmhouse and hugged the side wall like I 've seen them do in the movies until I could peer round into the farmyard . |
| 7 | I 've seen them do it ! |
| 8 | Yeah that 's the first time I 've seen her do that , come on you little madam , come on you little madam , let's go and find granddad at work , I know you 're a baby well come on |
| 9 | They say , ‘ I love you mum , but I 've seen you do this . |
| 10 | And I 've seen you do it in a lot of them . |
| 11 | And I 've seen chairs like that , I 've seen I do n't know whether it 's there but a couple of places , bedroom chairs , gorgeous things , you know ! |
| 12 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 13 | How could she have let him do that ? |
| 14 | ‘ Oh shit ! ’ he said loudly and then , quietly : ‘ Look what you 've made me do . ’ |
| 15 | someone accuses you of embarrassing/boring/upsetting them ( ‘ Now see what you 've made me do . ’ ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Now look what you 've made me do ! ’ she exclaimed agitatedly , then gasped in surprise when Leo got lazily to his feet , grasped both her elbows and lifted her out of the way . |
| 17 | ‘ Now look what you 've made me do ! ’ she screeched . |
| 18 | ‘ Is there something you 've seen you do n't care for ? ’ |
| 19 | You have seen me do this for others . |
| 20 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 21 | We 've seen him do it before , but he does n't , does n't say a word . |
| 22 | you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ? |
| 23 | And when the blur does clear , we imagine that we have made it do so all by ourselves . |
| 24 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 25 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 26 | What had made her do that ? she wondered . |