Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb infin] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having recovered the sail , we made them bleed the line . |
| 2 | This made them hold the glider down and often caused overspeeding or even overrunning of the cable or parachute . |
| 3 | My soldiers were guarding the master copies of the very instructions that made them do the guarding . |
| 4 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 5 | Relentlessly he made them repeat every movement and worked them for hours on end until they were perfectly in unison . |
| 6 | Strings were apparently omitted since the small scale ( the whole box is less than 16″x9″ ) made them look a bit stupid . |
| 7 | Peterborough made them fight every inch of the way . |
| 8 | At the end of the day , however , Celtic just about deserved their triumph , though Dundee made them fight every inch of the way . |
| 9 | So the challenging headline " our creams and lotions are all used up " made them read the rest of the copy . |
| 10 | The fact that we had an armed guard lowered no one 's spirits ; made everyone feel a lot more comfortable , including , if they only knew it , the ex-FAKINTIL chief sapper himself . |
| 11 | She made me sign the paper . ’ |
| 12 | The woman said : ‘ A policeman made me move the car . |
| 13 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 14 | It also made me realise the risk of skyline walking . |
| 15 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 16 | Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans . |
| 17 | Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it . |
| 18 | It was only semi-erotic because she made me wear a condom . |
| 19 | But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth . |
| 20 | It 's very peculiar — he made me feel a fool . |
| 21 | I thought about it and it made me feel a bit better . |
| 22 | That made me feel a bit of an outsider . |
| 23 | They gave me a pethidine injection which just made me feel a bit sleepy . |
| 24 | That made me feel a bit better , so I tottered to the top of the hill and stared bleakly around , in the equally bleak daylight . |
| 25 | You know , it made me feel a bit sick last night . |
| 26 | Teaching practice made me feel a lot less dispirited . |
| 27 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 28 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 29 | ‘ Once Stalin made me dance the Gopak , squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels , ’ writes Khrushchev , an image hard to call up in view of his shape , but — ‘ When Stalin says ‘ Dance ’ , a wise man dances , ’ added the peasant proverb-spinner in his accustomed vein . |
| 30 | It made me think a lot about photography while I was in prison ; it was like why are you doing this ? ’ |