Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More commonly , he will have been given power to make laws , subject only to the controlling authority of one or both Houses of Parliament to unmake them , or to withhold the endorsement necessary for them to continue to enjoy the force of law . |
| 2 | Good advertising communicates the right message to the right people at the right time in a way that will interest or amuse them , but above all make them want to buy the product , service , or even " idea " . |
| 3 | ‘ The very thought of it makes me want to press the panic button , crawl under the bed and call for HRT , ’ says one friend . |
| 4 | ‘ The very thought of reaching 50 makes me want to press the panic button , crawl under the bed and call for HRT ’ |
| 5 | I do n't know how they 've done it but the typography on the signs makes me want to pronounce the word Edin-burg , and I live in the place , for God 's sake . |
| 6 | I am a great fan of rave music yet the lyrics have never made me want to try the drug . |
| 7 | It just makes me want to vomit the way she does that . |
| 8 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 9 | But although they both tried to smile still , neither of them failed to notice the past tense she had used for the word ‘ love ’ . |
| 10 | The three of them moved thought the ship at a speed that I can hardly describe . |
| 11 | He presented a strong message to the newly-qualified chemists encouraging them to try to win the confidence of the lay public by admitting to things that go wrong and telling them what was being done about it . |
| 12 | But because they are so efficient at tempting big barbel to bite in the first place I keep trying different ways of fishing with them to try to overcome the problem . |
| 13 | In the summer of 1557 , some of them tried to break the stalemate . |
| 14 | One of them tried to jump the ditch and landed on Canny , breaking his neck ( Lincoln Journal , Nebraska 28 December 1987 ) . |
| 15 | Such groups consist of closely related individuals , and in evolutionary terms at least it is worth one of them dying to help the others , in order that a predator may learn not to touch them again . |
| 16 | This reflects the overall size of these departments , and the fact that all of them appear to have the resources to cover all of the earth science sub-disciplines in depth . |
| 17 | This reflects the overall size of these departments , and the fact that all of them appear to have the resources to cover all of the earth science sub-disciplines in depth . |
| 18 | And Howerd 's way … the comedian who kept them laughing 'til the end . |
| 19 | He will be reminded of the saying of Jesus , ‘ ’ He who has seen me has seen the Father . ’ |
| 20 | Faith , by contrast , approaches Jesus with a radically different attitude , recognising in him the revelation of the invisible God , believing that it is true that ‘ he who has seen me has seen the Father ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Leave them alone until someone who understands them has examined the site . |
| 22 | The promotion has led to some shops selling out of £120 vacuum cleaners , and the Cambuslang , Strathclyde , factory that makes them has defied the recession by switching to seven-day working . |
| 23 | The development of these powerful new means of communication and the accompanying development of personnel highly skilled in them has expanded the means of control of information as well as its dissemination . |
| 24 | But even in the case of such an Act , if there are superadded provisions which attach to non-payment consequences other than a bare liability to be sued , there can be no justification for refusing to have regard to those consequences and to consider whether the existence of the provisions creating them has placed the payer under such pressure that the payments have not in truth been voluntary . |
| 25 | This growth of alternative markets for short-term money and the instruments that go with them has made the supply and demand for short-term money extremely competitive . |
| 26 | Sixty two Firefly engines were made in the mid-nineteenth century and not one of them has survived the scrapheap . |
| 27 | The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers . |
| 28 | It is quite enough for me to try to grasp the way in which God has disclosed himself to us . |
| 29 | He also urged me to try to check the identification of the plant . |
| 30 | Very few of them believe there is any magic ( if ever there was ) in the business and almost all of them want to understand the process and expect executive search consultants to provide that knowledge . |