Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she took off her glasses the sun caught her eyes and made them flash like green torches . |
| 2 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 3 | But the polish on the sockets made them look like new . |
| 4 | It was an odd shade of reddish gold and , coupled with their tanned complexions and slanted eyes , made them look like young eagles . |
| 5 | The women 's hats and bright make-up made them look like exotic birds . |
| 6 | To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman . |
| 7 | Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners , the culture of their lands was unskilful , and their domestic life unformed ; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux , and their houses as filthy as the cottages of Hottentots . ’ |
| 8 | The Victorians , of course , for all their virtues , had an edge of prudery which made them condemn in public that which they were busy practising in private . |
| 9 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 10 | In these cases , financial security , a reluctance to move to a new employer , and proximity to the statutory pension age , coupled with a desire to do other things with their time or simply to stop working , led them to opt for early retirement . |
| 11 | Over the past ten years local authorities have moved away from the model which led them to act as direct providers of public services . |
| 12 | The whole crew landed safely at Aberdeen at the end of August 1882 , having survived the winter because lack of provisions led them to live on fresh meat , thus avoiding scurvy , and because of Smith 's quiet leadership . |
| 13 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 14 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 15 | Er he 's gone to Barnsley , cos they asked me to ask for this , gone to Barnsley . |
| 16 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 17 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 18 | Finally , I think the issue which more than any other led me to break with pure separatism , was women 's compassion . |
| 19 | This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them . |
| 20 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 21 | Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes . |
| 22 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 23 | He made me dress in erotic underwear and to dress as his sex slave . |
| 24 | Once he even made me hand over all the money beforehand , so that it would look as if he was paying for everyone himself . |
| 25 | They made me feel of some value again and the warmth was flooding through me long before the kettle had boiled on the iron stove in the corner . |
| 26 | This made me feel in later life that I was very unattractive , because I had had so many negative thoughts about my appearance earlier in my life . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 28 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 29 | ’ Boy often made me think of that particular moment — it was the way he looked down . |
| 30 | It made me think of that voodoo thing which hangs round graveyards and wears a top hat . ’ |