Example sentences of "and [vb past] they [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When their work was framed they preferred the frames to be ‘ en fuite ’ , or to project the canvas forward , rather than traditional frames which enclosed paintings and made them recede . |
| 2 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 3 | On occasion the underlying philosophy was extremely crude , recommending that ‘ if you provided them with footballs and made them kick footballs , they would not be so inclined to kick policemen in the street ’ . |
| 4 | When she took off her glasses the sun caught her eyes and made them flash like green torches . |
| 5 | Then Arthur took them to a night club called The Scotch , and made them dance , and thought they looked good together . |
| 6 | See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer . |
| 7 | As for the three goblins , they crept back to the king of the vookodlaks and he beat them all , and made them stand on their heads in the mud for three years and thirty days . |
| 8 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 9 | As they reached Allen 's side a voice broke the stillness and made them spin round . |
| 10 | He got on very well with the patients , and made them laugh without taking umbrage when they laughed at him . |
| 11 | ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time . |
| 12 | They concluded that by taking people out of their own homes , however modest , they were being removed from conditions which they knew and made them feel secure into ‘ a new social environment in which priority is given to the collectivity over the individual . ’ |
| 13 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 14 | Although some of its own experiments were now showing that air pollution in southern England damaged leaves and made them fall early from trees , it could not bring itself to say as much . |
| 15 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 16 | Then Brown Owl called to the Brownies who were left and made them lie with their heads pointing towards the swampland , then with the last two Brownies she made an arrowhead , like this : — |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | That unsettled them all and made them wonder who would be the next to go . |
| 19 | The idea of two particles so near in mass was troubling for some people and made them wonder if some misinterpretations had occurred ; in particular Patrick Blackett , another Nobel Laureate , raised a question as to whether there might be other explanations of the pion decay . |
| 20 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 21 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 22 | When the prophet Ezekiel was in the valley of bones he prophesied to the bones and made them join up together . |
| 23 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 24 | The hot car seats stung the children 's bare legs and made them cry out in protest . |
| 25 | But the main function of the British and Russian ministers was to observe and counter each other 's activities ; it was the rivalries of these two great imperial powers which kept alive their interest in Persia and made them establish and maintain relations with it . |
| 26 | The Prince smiled his thanks and held his hand out so that the sunlight streaming through the stained glass windows caught the gems in his rings and made them sparkle . |
| 27 | Got you got erm a pair of two lovers er , a woman 's house got burnt down and the man next door went down there and helped them build it up . |
| 28 | The area has encouraged entrepreneurs and investors since the late 1930s when engineering professor , Frederick Terman , the acknowledged ‘ father of Silicon Valley ’ , attracted engineers and scientists from the east and helped them find money for their work . |
| 29 | The creepy brew was dished out to the squad in Barcelona and helped them win four gold and five silver medals . |
| 30 | Many a time she had seen the hounds draw such a covert and heard them open and challenge as the fox broke . |