Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made him look at me and see how pale I am . |
| 2 | Once I heard him speak at a church service in Morton , and although he was an excellent speaker , there was a certain bitterness and disappointment in his words . |
| 3 | My friend was about 50 feet above me and almost out of sight in the fog , when I heard him yell at me to ‘ come and see this ’ . |
| 4 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
| 5 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
| 6 | ‘ And I saw you glance at my car . |
| 7 | You made me look at you , I 've overlowed his |
| 8 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 9 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 10 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 11 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 12 | " Send Mai to my hut in two minutes , " she heard him say at last in a curt voice . |
| 13 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 14 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 15 | She saw him glance at her gracefully curved female body , as beautiful as any fashion model 's ; but there was no appraisal of her beauty in his eyes . |
| 16 | She saw him look at his watch again . |
| 17 | He watched her climb on to the chair , and she saw him grin at the sight of her sore rump , which she thought must burn as brightly as any beacon . |
| 18 | She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods . |
| 19 | He came to sit beside her on the sofa ; she felt him look at her , intently . |
| 20 | Did you did you fight at that time then ? |
| 21 | They made us stay at one end of the room . |
| 22 | Then he made me look at the windows . |
| 23 | It made me cringe at its over-the-top violence . |
| 24 | It made me look at myself again with a more critical eye and say yes , I can be more positive and look to the future with renewed optimism . |
| 25 | And it made her look at Simon again , he was the messenger , he was a link , it had to mean something . |
| 26 | Jenna moved and he let her go at once , coming lithely to his feet and helping her up . |
| 27 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 28 | He let it go at that , smiling to himself as he suggested to Iris Sunderby that she go up to her room and put her things together . |