Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique . |
| 2 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 3 | It 's great to see them perform in those kinds of circumstances . |
| 4 | To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman . |
| 5 | ‘ Surely they ca n't make them fly through that , can they ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't make me suffer like this ! ’ |
| 7 | Peter does n't make me laugh at all . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't make me think of that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , my darling , my darling , why do you make me wait like this ! ’ |
| 10 | Once he even made me hand over all the money beforehand , so that it would look as if he was paying for everyone himself . |
| 11 | They made me feel of some value again and the warmth was flooding through me long before the kettle had boiled on the iron stove in the corner . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 13 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 14 | ’ Boy often made me think of that particular moment — it was the way he looked down . |
| 15 | It made me think of that voodoo thing which hangs round graveyards and wears a top hat . ’ |
| 16 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 17 | Some even made me jump After this we got back on the coach and waited for the ferry . |
| 18 | He made me work with all his might |
| 19 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 20 | ‘ You made me rise to that bait , did n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 22 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 23 | But unless you can grasp the private contractors and make them cooperate within this or encourage them to do so , there 's absolutely no way you can have a so-called seamless journey . |
| 24 | ‘ You make me sound like some kind of tease — it was never that way — ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You make me sound like some kind of natural disaster . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You make me sound like some crazed nymphomaniac . |
| 27 | He let me think about that , a long , tense silence between us . |
| 28 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
| 29 | What d' ya mean by that Karen ? |
| 30 | What d' ya mean by that , liability options ? |