Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 2 | It entertained me watching you try . |
| 3 | After all it was I who recommended them to use Nadirpur . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She virtually kidnapped me to bring me here , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , as I was saying before Adam interrupted me see I fancy Adam , he 's really nice . |
| 7 | She expected everyone to live up to her own high moral standards and there was an overwhelming feeling that if you did not , you had somehow failed . ’ |
| 8 | Brezhnev expected everyone to take his cut at home and abroad ( as he himself had done ) . |
| 9 | He always expected them to leave : he expected everyone to leave . |
| 10 | They expected everyone to do something , and then expected to tell them how it could have been done better . |
| 11 | And only the previous week the head of the Irish College in Rome — a widely respected Monsignor had said that illegal resistance was the natural protection against immoral laws and that ‘ the Catholics of Ireland rightly disowned what force made them endure ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the Muslim world their impotence made them perfect harem guards and they rose to power as chamberlains , governors and even generals . |
| 16 | I made them suffer and gradually the fear went , but it left a — a sort of boiling rage . ’ |
| 17 | She made them walk backwards and forwards , and then trot . |
| 18 | Oxford gave Villa plenty to think about though ; made them sweat , had them panicking near the end and big Ron Atkinson was on the touchline to martial things . |
| 19 | ( Later ) They wanted to give Lenin tea and to treat him to speeches of welcome , but he made them talk about tactics . |
| 20 | Instead we made them talk about where they lived and about their families . |
| 21 | He often wondered what they did in there that made them scream and shout as they ran out . |
| 22 | The competition made them decide to move to Easingwold , some 22 miles away as the crow flies and nearer 28 miles along the winding roads . |
| 23 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The clear autumn day drew to a close and Corbett made them rest their horses for a while . |
| 26 | He made them sing softly and then to sing loudly — smoking a cigar and strolling up and down with his walking-cane he had everyone in the audience completely under his control . |
| 27 | Our traditional British reserve made them think we were very hostile and resented them being here , and their extrovert camaraderie we regarded as showing off . |
| 28 | They were just blobs of ink — but we made them think |
| 29 | ‘ You made them think . ’ |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |