Example sentences of "[vb past] they [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Over the past ten years local authorities have moved away from the model which led them to act as direct providers of public services . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 14 | In our 1979 main survey , we asked a series of important questions to discover how people were influenced by the disclosure of either APR or the total credit cost , or both , when we asked them to choose between rival credit terms . |
| 15 | Their soul driven dance mix has packed out venues everywhere and got them airplay on top dance station Kiss FM . |
| 16 | The waiter invited them to choose between coq au vin and navarin of lamb , either of which , in other circumstances , would have been called stew . |
| 17 | Earth Mysteries researcher John Merron has subsequently located the other points of the decagon and found them occupied by significant sites . |
| 18 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 19 | I also proposed they aim for all other dogs ( except known or obvious ‘ nasties ’ ) and people , and to speak encouragingly to Moby as they did so , to keep him relaxed . |
| 20 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 21 | The two men found they agreed on many points about today 's press . |
| 22 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 23 | I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank . |
| 24 | The impetus which drove them to expand in all directions from this base is not fully explained . |
| 25 | There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other . |
| 26 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 27 | ‘ The Indians who initally came here in the Sixties had skills and capital which allowed them to move into small businesses , ’ said Dr Owen , research fellow at the Centre for Ethnic Relations at Warwick University . |
| 28 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
| 29 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 30 | It was the ICF who realised that looking casual allowed them to travel in large numbers and remain undetected by the police . |