Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [subord] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Does th anyone worry about using notes , it does n't make you feel as though the trainers know what they 're doing does it ?
2 His disgruntled voice made it seem as though the precautions of the drug smugglers formed a personal affront to his patriotism .
3 After a little tense silence that made it seem as though the very air were holding it breath , he said very evenly , and with dangerous softness .
4 He hated definitions of apostolic succession which made it sound as though a lot of laying on of hands from century to century was a bit of magic by which God preserves his Church .
5 He made it sound as though the reason was obvious .
6 ‘ The analysts finally said that what we were doing was not the problem — the problem was that we made it look as though the truth was being dragged out of us .
7 ‘ I 'm making it sound as though the little hut was some sort of brothel , but it was n't like that at all .
8 Emily Dickenson defined writing that works as ‘ something that makes me feel as though the top of my head is coming off ’ .
9 To make it look as though the ship is lost at sea .
10 But the work of Muschel and her collaborators , George Khoury , Richard Koller and Ravi Dhar at the National Cancer Institute and Paul Lebowitz at Yale , now makes it look as though the mutation may not have occurred in the tumour cells alone — instead , the mutant gene may be a rare variant that is actually inherited by some people .
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