Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 2 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 3 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 4 | I would nt be at all suprised to see them play in the ‘ theatre of dreams ’ . |
| 5 | We pour much time , money , anxiety and effort into our children simply for the pleasure of seeing them grow into the kind of people we long for them to be . |
| 6 | On seeing them waddle down the street , like a mass of quivering flesh , we usually ran upstairs to warn Mum of the advancing horde . |
| 7 | After that the solid throb of their engines and the thrill of seeing them skim to a halt on the waters of Poole Harbour were mere memories , although they continued to give excellent service in other parts of the world and a travel company has recently introduced a nostalgic flying-boat holiday across Africa on the route once used by Imperial Airways . |
| 8 | Quadratic equations were a great mystery to me , and seeing me struggle with a problem he would call me out and painstakingly take me step by step to a solution . |
| 9 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 10 | It 's seeing me look like an old hag first thing in the morning and not minding ! |
| 11 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 12 | The central position which the Communists occupied in these campaigns was a result of their international connections , which made them appear as the principal opponents of Fascism . |
| 13 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 14 | He made them sound like the Famous Five |
| 15 | He made them sound like the Famous Five . |
| 16 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 17 | Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance . |
| 18 | Those which have are reaping impressive rewards simply by identifying precisely the services or products customers want ; looking at their most lucrative areas ; finding out what clients really value ; and establishing what would make them move to a competing hotel . |
| 19 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 20 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 21 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 22 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 23 | But let me do it in my own time , and do n't make me feel like a brood mare . |
| 24 | If you 'll let me , I 'll come racing with you — if you 'll make me part of the team ? ’ she finished a little anxiously . |
| 25 | Do n't make me sound like an idiot , Julius ! ’ |
| 26 | Mmmmm , you 'll make me dribble in a minute . |
| 27 | Make everyone stand in a circle and explain that you have been granted a special power which places people under your spell . |
| 28 | That we should cut off the electricity and make everyone live in the dark ? |
| 29 | The individuals ' personal history , what they have done , who they have been , what has been important to them , makes them come ‘ alive ’ , helping them emerge from the ‘ elderly ’ or ‘ dependent ’ or ‘ infirm ’ stereotypes . |
| 30 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |