Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It will in any event be one vote , and in no way can I make it count for P and Q and R and S and T , or even just for P and Q. |
2 | He looks very ragged , so I made him go to bed and get some sleep . ’ |
3 | I made him look at me and see how pale I am . |
4 | I made it seem like one . |
5 | And I make him work like a dog ! |
6 | I make them play in uniform : |
7 | I make one remark about my life and it reverberates right through every else I do . |
8 | I make it sound as if he finds it easy … . |
9 | I make you work like a dog . |
10 | And so he leaned his weight on my shoulder and I helped him walk to his horse . |
11 | Well I 'd one come from Malta to England again , in nineteen sixteen and went on an old boat , they called it the Gurkha . |
12 | I let myself unwind at last — how good it feels to be back in the field , especially in this cinnamon-scented corner of the mortal sphere . |
13 | I kept that up until dawn , when the search party returned , Esmerelda-less , then I let myself go to sleep . |
14 | I let them swim in peace . |
15 | In an interview in 1983 Bishop Peter said : ‘ I have a house full of young people who spend a year with me praying and working in the community to get closer to God , and I let them impinge on my ministry . |
16 | But that rotten yellow-gutted two-timing little toad " — I let him go on like that a while , to get it out of his system . |
17 | Usually I let him go on the . |
18 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
19 | I let him sleep in my room at night , and he kept me awake for hours talking about Mrs Robinson . |
20 | Next morning I let him sleep until midday . |
21 | I let him get under my guard . |
22 | Cos I let him play with it . |
23 | I let him cry for a bit and then went over to him and squatted down beside him and put my hand over his shoulders . |
24 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
25 | ‘ Although why I let her talk to me into doing such a foolish thing is beyond my comprehension . ’ |
26 | I let her play with a small , single-string kite while I used a stunter . |
27 | ‘ If I let you talk to her , how can I stop Wilson ? ’ |
28 | For four weeks I let it lie on my desk , unwilling to take the final step . |
29 | I let it hang in the air , like a question . |
30 | Yeah but I did still did see I do I wan na do a blue |