Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She ‘ let her mask of moderate respectability slip yesterday ’ , it says . |
| 32 | He let it go at that , smiling to himself as he suggested to Iris Sunderby that she go up to her room and put her things together . |
| 33 | She let it rest for longer than she should have done and then moved slightly away . |
| 34 | Shouldering the gun in the sure knowledge that the Doctor would be seriously pissed off if she let it fall into local hands in this time zone , she drew the grenade from her pockets , and poked her head up just long enough to check the distance . |
| 35 | ‘ What made you decide on this trip ? ’ |
| 36 | Very good , they made you feel like sick . |
| 37 | ‘ What made you think of that foolish tale ? ’ |
| 38 | What made you apply for this particular job ? |
| 39 | What made you jump at that moment ? |
| 40 | At first , so Coleridge improbably claimed , Walsh thought he had been found out : ‘ for he heard me talk of one Spy Nozy , which he was inclined to interpret of himself , and of a remarkable feature belonging to him ’ . |
| 41 | The hon. Gentleman heard me say on numerous occasions when the Environmental Protection Bill was being considered in Committee that it was under strength . |
| 42 | I heard you talk about this hotel . |
| 43 | She heard him reach for another sandwich . |
| 44 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
| 45 | " Send Mai to my hut in two minutes , " she heard him say at last in a curt voice . |
| 46 | A sudden shout made her look to one side . |
| 47 | Only the young man 's intuitive fear of the heavy couple who had entered his shop , closed the door and locked it , and pushed him roughly into the back room , made him co-operate at all . |
| 48 | His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines . |
| 49 | It made him think about last night 's events . |
| 50 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 51 | He wished he had n't spotted it as it made him think of this morning and going round the house in Hill View Road , and the idea his Mum and Dad had about moving . |
| 52 | The poignant melody made him think of soft feminine sighs , warm arms and whispered words of love in the dark of night . |
| 53 | 1 When did it happen ? 2 What did he actually see ? 3 What did it make him think of ? 4 What made him think like that ? |
| 54 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |
| 55 | Artai was incapable of sitting still for long , and only his abnormal concern with his appearance made him submit at all to the restrictive nature of the ministrations of the Y'frike slaves . |
| 56 | Camille thought his smile made him look like one of Mick 's greyhounds . |
| 57 | Kite , one of the few golfers to have had any success with switch-hitting on the greens , came out this year with a compact whip-and-zip to his swing that made him look like one of those little mechanical Arnold Palmer golf games that were so popular in the 1960s ( and have recently surfaced again ) . |
| 58 | The story is , that in bygone days before the advent of the white man , there was a young Siwash Indian whose ardent love of nature made him come to that point of land on the inlet every day to watch the sunset . |
| 59 | If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys . |
| 60 | Coarse Angling team saw them finish in fourth place , just 10 points away from a medal position , in the World Freshwater Angling Championships . |