Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] i [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Money made me gu out an rob |
| 3 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 4 | The kids helped me pile up the slabs and we ‘ borrowed ’ a barrow from the house-renovators next door to transport the broken humps of concrete , via some wobbly ramps , to a spoil heap up the garden . |
| 5 | " Besides , you ought to see the luxury the department lets me live in now . |
| 6 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves . |
| 9 | A sound from overhead made me look up . |
| 10 | Really what we 're doing after are they prepared to talk about it if when you by consent let me carry on talking when you do n't have a leading question . |
| 11 | I 'm beginning to put my life together again now and I 'm concentrating on my riding to help me get through . |
| 12 | Then I was put on some sort of medication to help me calm down because I kept on getting knotted up , getting uptight . |
| 13 | However , I found the most frightful difficulty in persuading the various captains of these teams from one flight or the other to let me join in . |
| 14 | Cos how many things did I put in for the thingums in the draws in Asda . |
| 15 | The shock of cold water makes me cry out with surprise . |
| 16 | Carradine helped me get out of the diner , but I did n't feel so bad . |
| 17 | It was Ian who persuaded my father to let me go on to Cambridge , which I did a year after Ian . |
| 18 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 19 | Le let me bring in Dr C er Vernon let me bring in Dr Cosmo here , Vernon . |
| 20 | Or was it all a pack of lies to make me give in ? |
| 21 | That evening one of the Corporals made me clean out the crow 's cage ; I lifted the large black bird out and parked it on the gravel beside a flowerbed . |
| 22 | For whose efforts on behalf of the fund I I really do thank them and I 'd like to make a special thanks to Lady Chandler , Lucy stepped into the breach as acting chair about a year ago and since I was elected has done a tremendous amount to help me settle in quickly and I hope effectively . |
| 23 | So I might ask dad to help me put on the roof-rack . |
| 24 | ‘ That expectation makes me freeze up and feel very shy and nervous , or else it makes my try too hard and I just end up feeling awkward . |
| 25 | My mother made me take up tap dancing , because I 'd got sparrow legs . |