Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 2 | The experience made me realize that there is more to speechreading/ lip-reading than meets the eye . |
| 3 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 4 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 5 | Roman let her go and she closed the door on him with relief , pushing any tinge of regret that he had n't kissed her firmly away . |
| 6 | ‘ I was attracted to it because the script made me laugh and it 's a splendid play . |
| 7 | But the memory of Mala in that half-embrace with Gharr made me wonder if she had not already … travelled beyond my reach . |
| 8 | The seal saw them shimmer and melt away until one day the penguin said to her : |
| 9 | Peering out a few seconds later , Manville saw him turn and begin to stroll down the street . |
| 10 | Shiona felt him sigh as he laid his hands on her shoulders . |
| 11 | What other relationships did he have and who else might be grieving ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | How many kids did he have when moved here ? |
| 14 | And after leaving the main bedroom did you learn that the rest of the flat was secured ? |
| 15 | Erm , whereabouts in Llaneilian did you live when you were young ? |
| 16 | I mimicked his slow accent , and the mimicry made him turn and stare at me , and the look on his face instantly made me regret my mimicry . |
| 17 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 18 | ( 19 ) The telephone made me wonder whether I need drop this task to answer the call . |
| 19 | This question made me realise that there must be lots of new knitters out there with electronic of Duomatic 80 machines who do not know this technique . |
| 20 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 21 | Often the tensions made it appear as though there was a ring of invisible men sitting outside the circle of women , a silent audience whose approval we often still needed . |
| 22 | The study of the Buddha made me feel that I was in the presence of a very great religious teacher , a man of great compassion , who diagnosed man 's original trouble as greed , desire , attachment , the escape from which was the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path . |
| 23 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 24 | ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’ |
| 25 | What work did you do when you left school ? |
| 26 | What sort of work did you try and get when you came ? |
| 27 | Only with Pilade did he act as she would wish a husband and father to act . |
| 28 | And as a child did you know that that you you did n't use this room to ? |
| 29 | Not till they had come up onto the green did he realise that the figure in waterproofs pulling the doctor 's trolley was Chris . |
| 30 | Well then Pam made me laugh cos the tiler he , she said he 's go up on the roof and he 's there for hours ! |