Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Manifesto is about making our country respected and secure , and helping you achieve a better , safer and more prosperous future . |
| 2 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
| 3 | It was cruel , of course , to bring someone of Estabrook 's age out on a cold day , and make him climb a hill , but Gentle knew from experience you took whatever satisfactions you could along the way . |
| 4 | Why Sir , they blind still those they take , And make them tell the stories of their lives , Which known , they do accordingly . |
| 5 | The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line . |
| 6 | All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ . |
| 7 | At best , they have an instinctive feeling for what will please people and make them like the product . |
| 8 | ‘ Okay , blue-eyes , ’ I drawled , even though they were green , ‘ be difficult and make me twist the information from you until you scream for my kisses … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’ |
| 10 | Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it . |
| 11 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |
| 12 | You can not yoke the dragonfly and make it drive the corn-mill . |
| 13 | I can evoke the wind at will and make it rustle the stiff papery blades of the bamboos and sing , through the comb-like leaves of the yew , as a worthy accompaniment to the voice that on that day and on all other days , even to the final silence , spoke words that had always the same meaning . |
| 14 | If you can spot a possibility and make it work the result can be exciting , and do n't be afraid to use your sense of form , colour and originality . |
| 15 | He can kiss a strange baby and make it look the most natural thing in the world — another skill some of his younger and brighter rivals do not find easy . |
| 16 | Oh dear , he thought , she 's going to cry and make me look a bastard in front of all the doctors and nurses . |
| 17 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 18 | He was terrific and made me realise the only reason I had these thoughts was because of the enormous love I have for you . |
| 19 | He took his job very seriously and made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists like himself . |
| 20 | They were guilty as hell over the East German business and made me look a fool . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Around him he began to see the unfolding beauty of early summer in his homeland and it held him still with wonder and made him forget the passing of the days . |
| 23 | However , I thought too much excitement was not good for him , so I talked of other things , and made him laugh a little . |
| 24 | However , the Canadian who stole the stuff turned up in the middle of the night with a revolver , took all the money my father had , and made him unload the entire cargo . |
| 25 | A week later , while he was out jogging , he encountered the Commy old bat who had put the card in the flowers and made him look a fool to Viola . |
| 26 | The moment she saw Mungo , Mary Ann fussed and tut-tutted and made him have a bath . |
| 27 | Two armed men held a gun to his head and made him drive the bomb to the heart of Westminster after hiring the cab at his office . |
| 28 | ‘ — but if Ross had n't twisted Owen 's arm and made him take the money we would n't have been able to afford even a shoe-box . |
| 29 | Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ . |
| 30 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |