Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workshop session on the importance of the measurement and analysis of data made me understand the purpose of the charts and graphs displayed on office walls at Runcorn Heath . |
| 2 | Holmes ' warm words of thanks made me feel much happier , and I saw that he was right . |
| 3 | The first few hundred hours of thought made me regret my bet ; but the second couple of thousand convinced me that I 'd played it right . |
| 4 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not a particularly patient man , and the thought of lying flat on my back for weeks made me feel almost suicidal , and if it had n't been for your parents — well , suffice to say that they were marvellous — ’ |
| 6 | But the memory of Mala in that half-embrace with Gharr made me wonder if she had not already … travelled beyond my reach . |
| 7 | He sent a lad after it to try to catch it and with disgust watched me limp towards him rubbing a bruised thigh . |
| 8 | The fellow 's smugness and unnecessary familiarity with Mala made me dislike him at once . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | A sound from overhead made me look up . |
| 11 | ‘ Being here in Majorca made me think of Seville . |
| 12 | Only when the station buildings disappeared from sight did I feel safe from further intervention . |
| 13 | It was the kind of illogical fear of the supernatural that in others made me sneer ; but all along I had felt that I was invited not out of hospitality , but for some other reason . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 16 | What on earth made me imagine for even one second that I would have enough strength to confront Luke ? |
| 17 | I had nearly got myself killed back there : what on earth did I think I was playing at ? |
| 18 | But I feel so awful — how on earth did I catch them ? |
| 19 | I thought how on earth did I get myself |
| 20 | When I had breath to spare , I shouted , ‘ Why on earth did I come ? |
| 21 | Your capacity for trust made me wonder if perhaps … you , alone … |
| 22 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 23 | No I never at Greenspot let me say . |
| 24 | Not even when Pam Wright went 4-up on me after four holes in the final of the Scottish at Troon did I feel in any danger . " |
| 25 | I 'd abandoned the empty house and walked joyfully into the woods and only by chance did I know what had hit me . |