Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb infin] the [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 | So the challenging headline " our creams and lotions are all used up " made them read the rest of the copy . |
| 6 | She made me sign the paper . ’ |
| 7 | The woman said : ‘ A policeman made me move the car . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It also made me realise the risk of skyline walking . |
| 10 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 11 | Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people : those who knew what they wanted to do ; those ( the unhappiest ) who never knew what their purpose in life was ; and those who found out later on . |
| 18 | ‘ If I 'd been bad he made me copy the notices and labels in cases . |
| 19 | Michael made me write the letter — three men are coming to kill you — three of the Six ! |
| 20 | It was pure chance that made me notice the writing on the top file , as I pushed open the window . |
| 21 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 22 | Lady Augusta xenophobically added : ‘ … a sort of national prejudice made me attribute the grace and dignity of the scene , for what there was of either came from her , to the blood of Kirkpatrick ! ! ! ’ , a reference to Eugénie 's Scottish grandfather |
| 23 | It made me recall the list of supposed super-powers of Ardakkeans . |
| 24 | He took his job very seriously and made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists like himself . |
| 25 | One of them sat in the back — again — and made me follow the Escort , but at least this time they were plainclothes men not uniformed , so my street cred did n't suffer . |
| 26 | The workshop session on the importance of the measurement and analysis of data made me understand the purpose of the charts and graphs displayed on office walls at Runcorn Heath . |
| 27 | Hints that merry muses were at work on Woman 's Hour that day made me re-tune the tranny to FM to catch the results . |
| 28 | I thought it would have got better by itself — it was my son who made me call the doctor ’ |
| 29 | Watch out Christopher let me move the table . |
| 30 | This morning you mysteriously slide me a note telling me to ask you out and now you claim I 'm not really a journalist even though my credentials were thoroughly checked out by your plant manager before he let me near the place . |