Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to see them receive a contract of employment which would extend their rights , particularly in relation to health and safety . |
| 2 | Strings were apparently omitted since the small scale ( the whole box is less than 16″x9″ ) made them look a bit stupid . |
| 3 | But it would be nice to be told that he was all the same , even if it did make me feel a bit sad . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 'd make me feel a lot better , ’ said Grimma . |
| 5 | Not that I want to kill anybody now , but it is all for defence rather than offence , and it does make me feel a lot more secure . |
| 6 | Oh dear , he thought , she 's going to cry and make me look a bastard in front of all the doctors and nurses . |
| 7 | Exchange visits between company and school have kept the project going and Courtaulds is now looking at the possibility of helping them design a fibre spinning rig . |
| 8 | It 's showing we care for them , showing we do n't like what they are doing , helping them solve a problem . |
| 9 | It was only semi-erotic because she made me wear a condom . |
| 10 | It 's very peculiar — he made me feel a fool . |
| 11 | I thought about it and it made me feel a bit better . |
| 12 | That made me feel a bit of an outsider . |
| 13 | They gave me a pethidine injection which just made me feel a bit sleepy . |
| 14 | That made me feel a bit better , so I tottered to the top of the hill and stared bleakly around , in the equally bleak daylight . |
| 15 | You know , it made me feel a bit sick last night . |
| 16 | Teaching practice made me feel a lot less dispirited . |
| 17 | It made me think a lot about photography while I was in prison ; it was like why are you doing this ? ’ |
| 18 | Something in me , some memory of earlier days , made me respect a woman for whom God was not only a Sunday thought . |
| 19 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 20 | When you said you came from good tough stock it made me shiver a bit . |
| 21 | I then did a physical which they made me run a mile and a half , did press ups , sit ups , which I passed . |
| 22 | They were guilty as hell over the East German business and made me look a fool . |
| 23 | Because I am a very poor man you made me accept a figure like six million lire ( £2,500 ) . |
| 24 | Head of Department : ‘ We already make them purchase a pad plus two HB pencils — total £1·50 for Art for the parents . |
| 25 | All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ . |
| 26 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 27 | ‘ People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot ’ |
| 28 | ‘ At the moment , ’ she says , ‘ the people in Liverpool make me laugh a lot . ’ |
| 29 | People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’ |