Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to make him understand that Brian had n't done anything wrong . |
| 2 | And Eddie Gilfoyle , who had been having an affair , tried to make it appear that she 'd committed suicide , it was alleged . |
| 3 | It was the first time she 'd seen him smile and , though it obviously was n't intended to charm , it took her breath away and made her pulses quicken . |
| 4 | I came to help you escape and you have insulted me , me and all true free dragons with your petty invitation . |
| 5 | So they agreed to let me play and I asked them where they wanted me . |
| 6 | He side-stepped to let her pass and they collided . |
| 7 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 8 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 9 | With reluctance , she decided to let him sleep and moved away . |
| 10 | Alas , I was only just beginning to be visually aware , but to the extent to which I have grown in such awareness over the years I believe it was Basil and Ruth who started to make me look and see . |
| 11 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 12 | Never yes so I thought let them come and they wanted you to be there and then I could n't rid of I just could n't get them to change their minds you know they just wanted you there and I said |
| 13 | The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’ |
| 14 | As soon as he confessed what he knew , fumbling the hideous admission as they came out of a rather good film about love that he had hardly been able to stand , she managed to make it seem that it was he , not she , who was the disturber of their lives . |
| 15 | ‘ You did make me laugh when you fell over the broomstick . ’ |
| 16 | I mean , it did make me realize that for large parts of a drama lesson when the kids were supposed to be working on their own they were n't probably doing an awful lot . |
| 17 | But erm they did let her know that she had n't got it instead of making her wait the four weeks or whatever it was |
| 18 | Did did you feel that there was some cruelty going on ? |
| 19 | Someone said that they had heard him suggest that all guests should be breathalysed at the door , for Rush had the reputation locally for being a more than usually dedicated policeman . |
| 20 | Hayling had let them know that the move would complicate his personal life . |
| 21 | Who , in one swift , unexpected movement , had let her see that he was as vulnerable as she ? |
| 22 | Without realizing it he had let me know that using French words , however few and halting , has a bewitching effect upon everything in London , animate and inanimate alike . |
| 23 | ‘ I had seen them live and thought that they had an energy . |
| 24 | He had seen it work while at Delta . |
| 25 | Perhaps she had seen it happen while in this automatic state . |
| 26 | She said let me know when you 're coming my love she said cos erm I do n't like cos I 'm on me own strangers and that |
| 27 | Nicola had made me go and see if he was okay and I said yes he was , because I 'd seen his eye move and I left him there . |
| 28 | For Bridgnorth had made me resolve that I would never more go among a people that had been hardened in unprofitableness under an awakening ministry … |
| 29 | This she had made me promise when I was nine and she continued to insist that my refusal to live my life her way was selfishness and rank ingratitude . |
| 30 | My previous experiences had made me wonder if white policemen did n't get a kick out of black policemen investigating black citizens . |