Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horrors of war made them want to prevent conflict . |
| 2 | When the ‘ Robert Johnson , Father of the Delta Blues ’ album came out , that was one of the main things that made me want to play slide . |
| 3 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 4 | I realised I wanted to use objects as symbols , instead of illustrative figures ’ . |
| 5 | I realised I wanted to use objects as symbols , instead of illustrative figures ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ She gives new insights , new ways of looking at things … she helped me begin to see pain as gift and grace . ’ |
| 7 | I found I had to get Dawn 's weight down much more than I 'd expected , or would have wished , just to persuade her to come for the food on my fist . |
| 8 | I found I wanted to support Sam , even though he 's old enough to sit up on his own now . ’ |
| 9 | After weeks of private anguish followed by questionable closed-door lobbying of the leading minds of the Royal College of Science , Darwin found himself forced to go public on the issue of evolution for the first time , when both their papers were read at the Linnean Society of London on that momentous July evening of 1858 . |
| 10 | In 1962 , while he was filming In the Cool of the Day at MGM 's Elstree Studios , the hired chauffeur often found himself having to drive Finchie home dead drunk from a night of wild passion . |
| 11 | The government found itself having to make concessions to normally docile bodies like the House of Lords and the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals , over such matters as security of tenure for academics and the universities ' powers to raise their own finance . |
| 12 | The crowd swirled round them and she found herself struggling to make sense of what he said . |
| 13 | Once again , Defries found herself having to ignore insubordination , this time in order to extract information . |
| 14 | ‘ Is Francesca still in New York ? ’ the brat was asking anxiously , and McLeish , who had not wanted to discuss her in this company , found he had to reassure Jamie about her whereabouts and probable date of return . |
| 15 | Spanish socialism , meanwhile , was in the early stages of what was to be termed ‘ bolshevization ’ : a shift towards revolutionary positions in which moderates like Prieto found themselves struggling to retain influence and party office . |
| 16 | Others found themselves struggling to plan development projects . |
| 17 | Labs which for years had worked on more classical memory tasks found themselves funded to purchase morris mazes and set up LTP facilities . |
| 18 | Exchanges found themselves having to make material amendments to their rules and practices , in order to secure recognition . |
| 19 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
| 20 | When no ambulance came I tried to think things through . |
| 21 | She was buried on New Year 's Day , 1786 , at Catherine Hill ; six years later , predictably , up came her remains to accommodate Joseph Coles , aged 99 ; and up he came , finally , in November 1796 , to allow some space for Hippy Millard . |
| 22 | The invisibility that threatened her drove her to perform to attract attention , so she had done well at school , been picked for the hockey and the swimming teams . |
| 23 | Their Lord was a merciful Lord and if she had sinned as she believed He existed to forgive sinners . |
| 24 | The oil spilt from the Braer was unusually light and toxic , and this , combined with fierce storms which mixed it into the seawater and caused it combine to form clumps with fine particles churned up by the waves , meant that rather than floating to the surface , as is normal with spilt crude oil , it was carried by ocean currents far from the spill site and later redeposited in deep " sumps " on the seabed . |
| 25 | But the Bank of England signalled it wants to keep base rates held at 101/2 p.c . |
| 26 | For these reasons a number of highly estimated lots failed to find buyers while others far exceeded their estimates . |
| 27 | and then that 's a fiver , and then you 've got the worry of and you got you got to go shops because when it 's so hot things go stale you 've got to have |
| 28 | And he showed he means to make goals a top priority with the £400,000 move for Rangers livewire front man Spencer . |
| 29 | And yesterday angry Ray Fisher , 44 , claimed he had to dump £5,000 worth of fish and other food sniffed by the dogs in the raid at Aspatria , Cumbria . |
| 30 | It was n't long before Wall Street wooed Koons away with the prospect of higher wages as a commodities broker , which the then-aspiring artist claimed he needed to produce sculptures that were costing him $3,000 a shot . |