Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He occasionally drops a phrase to provoke a smile from the soft cheeks of ladies and gentlemen , and to make them think that they could say the thing better … |
| 2 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 3 | As a result , I reacted in front of the jury in a way which may have made them think that , in fact , the defence had nothing to lose by disclosure of the statement . |
| 4 | Let me emphasize that , so far as Andrew and I were concerned , it was a love-match . ’ |
| 5 | Let me emphasize that there is nothing wrong in comparing local authority figures for numbers of children placed ‘ home on trial ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’ |
| 7 | Like when someone says that the records you love are just plastic junk and they are the sort of people who read and rake in all that shit in the daily papers , then it makes me think that my daily intake of media is far superior to theirs . |
| 8 | These ideas make me think that creativity and beauty are linked . |
| 9 | What she said to me on the subject of the race riots and how she felt in that context makes me think that this stage in her life was nothing to do with race . |
| 10 | Running my eyes down the contents list of volume three , however , makes me think that I am about to encounter uncharted waters , featuring as it does sequencing , the MIDI studio and something called SMPTE … |
| 11 | Hoffman 's face has never been very expressive ( sometimes his rabbit stare makes me think that the great Maureen Stapleton has spawned an emotionally retarded.son ) , but he has always been able to get our empathy . ’ |
| 12 | And if that is so , then I revert to the considerations already stated which as a matter of construction make me think that it did so legislate . |
| 13 | It deliberately switched off its mind to me , to make me think that it had died . ’ |
| 14 | That 's what makes me think that the man may have been a foreigner perhaps even killed on the other side of the channel . " |
| 15 | Letting me think that you slept with so many men you did n't have the first idea who the father was ! ’ |
| 16 | Carol began to sing a very rude version of ‘ Pretty Flamingo ’ which made me think that the stories of graffiti in ladies loos were all true . |
| 17 | Armstrong zipped through the City with more than usual aplomb , which made me think that Duncan the Drunken had given him a tuning . |
| 18 | It also made me think that perhaps I had more control over the whole presentation generally which is my biggest concern so get up there and just do some and therefore it 's going to go on to the confidence side of it . |
| 19 | How could you go on letting me think that they were true ? ’ |
| 20 | It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it . |
| 21 | Yeah , but then you , that impression made me think that all , it 's all South Africa , which , which was why |
| 22 | Before the editors of trade magazines start sticking sub-editors ' spikes in my effigy let me explain that their publications perform a valuable function and are extremely interesting to their readers . |
| 23 | What makes me laugh that the Labour party always say oh interest rates in , sorry the tax rates in this |
| 24 | Yes , it 's all go on the rumour exchange and let me stress that these are but a few of the juiciest . |
| 25 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 26 | You 'll have a chance to come back on whether we have got the wrong impression on that , I mean I recall Mr Heselton 's quite clearly , but let me pursue that at a stage further if if we take that as our impression of what you have said collectively , and you are asked to make provision for nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , again collectively in the Greater York area , and I 'm addressing this question to the districts , what provision would you make in your districts of your district figure in the Greater York area ? |
| 27 | Remember , though , that badgering agents is quite useless ; if they want to come they will come , but telephoning them and overselling yourself can be just as useless as not letting them know that you 're alive and working . |
| 28 | She could remember though the time when she realised that she must , for love of them both , never let them know that she was aware of it . |
| 29 | If you contact them by means other than our Reader Service Card , please let them know that you read about them in CHEMISTRY IN BRITAIN . |
| 30 | Maybe to lift guilt from bowed shoulders ; to put light and hope where there was deep-seated despair ; or to so simply and yet so vitally make them know that like any other human being , they are entitled to ‘ choice ’ — and actually have it . |