Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to be blamed for making you miss your deadline , as well as for everything else . ’ |
| 2 | At first he had suggested it might be fairer to everyone if he were to leave Kentucky and find work elsewhere — perhaps even return to England — but Cora-Beth had succeeded in making him see that there was absolutely no need for him to do so . |
| 3 | The prosthetists with amputations noted that patients could be discouraged by seeing them cope so well . |
| 4 | What kind of wood would they be made from do you know ? |
| 5 | It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’ |
| 6 | Got ta let them come in ! |
| 7 | As its name implies , the Home Management Account is geared to helping you control the household budget . |
| 8 | They will be geared to making us express how we lack contentment with one system of government or another . |
| 9 | We 're the ones that have said to Jehovah I am dedicating my life to you , I am going to do this , do that and the other and it 's up to us as to whether we do it , so it requires effort , first , five , six , also says let us stay awake , keep our senses first Peter , five , eight keep your senses , be watchful and then first Corinthians , ten , twelve which I think the song was based on let him think that he is standing , beware , beware , beware that he does not fall , if you think things are going along nicely and you 're in a comfortable little corner , a little niche in the truth , and it 's just how you like it , and it 's just the way you want it to be and there 's the time we need to be aware because there 's an opening for Satan to get into to make us fall . |
| 10 | The West has opted for letting it happen rather than making it happen |
| 11 | I had decided against Ecuador : people I had spoken to made it sound cosy , like Switzerland , and there was no easy way from it to Brazil . |
| 12 | Above all , they have emphasised the need for higher expectations from society as a whole about what disabled people can achieve , and have argued for the necessary resources to be devoted to helping them achieve them . |
| 13 | A 23-year-old woman law clerk has appeared in court charged with helping him escape and harbouring him . |
| 14 | But we think it is highly regrettable that economic development is being seen as an integral part of the war against terrorism , not least for those charged with making it work on the ground . |
| 15 | But it had taken Duncan Bradford 's vision to persuade his agent that James was gifted enough to be worthy of the expense involved in letting him study medicine . |
| 16 | Get them involved pro-actively as opposed to letting them sit there and snide at you cos they know more about it than you do . |
| 17 | How wide is the Green Party 's main bill associated with do you think ? |
| 18 | One of the first problems faced by the Republic was that most of the colonies outside New England were loyal to the Stuart monarchs , and so in the early 1650s considerable effort had to be put into making them accept the new government . |
| 19 | In fact , the limits within which voluntary resources can be effectively used are narrow ; and they can only be effectively used even within those limits if professional full-paid effort is put into making it happen . |
| 20 | What what you 'd learned from did they send you on a |
| 21 | seconded by do you wish to speak now |
| 22 | She gave me that icy smile which is reserved for making me feel uncomfortable . |
| 23 | Even the DGSE might have baulked at letting them drown or shooting them in cold blood . |
| 24 | They loved the fact that Tony and everyone was dedicated to making it happen . |
| 25 | I do n't know how David 's Mum got there because he decided not to tell her , even though I said he could call her because it 's not really fair to get married without letting her know . ’ |
| 26 | Every forecast I have listened to makes me think we are unlikely to get any . ’ |
| 27 | KEEP smiling and the slump wo n't beat you — that 's the message in our great £25,000 series of contests aimed at helping you laugh in the face of Lamont . |
| 28 | Like other empire-builders , Japan justified her expansion by a public relations rhetoric aimed at making it appear as altruism . |