Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know you 'd like to see me become a big tycoon like you , ’ Peter was saying , ‘ but you 'll just have to face it — I 'm not and never will be . |
| 2 | ‘ The place was packed to the roof — to see me get a good hiding . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , he 'll make me look a hundred and three , ’ said Lucy . |
| 4 | You can either draw it model it made me draw the last one I 'll model it this time , it 's good fun ! |
| 5 | My heart was beating in my throat making it hard to swallow , my nose was running , my hands were cold and I could n't get enough oxygen , which made me yawn every few seconds . |
| 6 | He was terrific and made me realise the only reason I had these thoughts was because of the enormous love I have for you . |
| 7 | ‘ She made me walk straight and tall again , made me feel a complete man with her excellently designed footwear , ’ he had boomed . |
| 8 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 9 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 10 | It made me take a good look at what I really wanted out of men and dating . |
| 11 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
| 12 | Something made me snatch the woolly choirboy from its metal gallows ( even at that moment I noticed its surprising weight ) . |
| 13 | It was that that made me see the other side of him . |
| 14 | Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it . |
| 15 | I would agree that a hypnotist could not , for example , make me attack an innocent person . |
| 16 | You could of let me have the first one |
| 17 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 18 | A jovial Indian lady struggling to stay inside her sari helped me find the Electoral Register covering Lee Metford Road and I ran a finger down the names to see if any rang a bell . |
| 19 | He 's certainly made me laugh a few times ! |
| 20 | My mother had intended no lewdness , but the connotations of her remark had made me feel a greater , more immediate sense of defilement than that which I already experienced . |
| 21 | The sight of that blood has made me feel a whole lot better . |
| 22 | President Bush defended his administration 's cautious response , saying he had seen no facts since Tuesday which ‘ would have made me make a different decision ’ . |
| 23 | But with more than 50mpg available and the possibility of good deals to reduce the outlay , the cheapest Fiesta has made me take a long hard look at the lavishly equipped hot hatch we use as a shopping car . |
| 24 | ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out . |
| 25 | Let me open a new chapter and tell another story . |
| 26 | Finally , let me end a long , but hopefully not tedious , list of routes with a real gem from Skye . |
| 27 | Let me answer the second question first . |
| 28 | Let me tell the right hon. Gentleman what was the test for our new health service reforms set by his hon. Friend the Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) . |
| 29 | As the Minister responsible at the time , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that we went to great lengths to minimise the disruption caused in classrooms by the provision of necessary training related to the introduction of education reforms . |
| 30 | As for the hon. Gentleman 's suggestion that the grant-maintained school policy might be paralysing the production of reorganisation proposals , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that in the past 12 months 150 proposals for school reorganisations were received and some 93 have so far been approved . |