Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made them put it in the garden shed . ’ |
| 2 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 3 | Now why , what made them take it to the stage |
| 4 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
| 5 | Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place . |
| 6 | She let him accompany her into the small lounge where the set was kept in segregation from the vocal and gregarious fishermen , and settle her in a comfortable chair , cheek by jowl with a single elderly lady , who seemed pleased to have company , and disposed to conversation . |
| 7 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 8 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 9 | But she let him help her into a chair . |
| 10 | ‘ What malicious thoughts made you trap me in the library ? ’ asked Mr Fractor . |
| 11 | Well I have n't said , her , heard anybody say anything about the grand old tradition of switching on the television set , and I 've a horrible feeling that er that th that the one day in the year when people want to get together with their families probably means switching off the television set . |
| 12 | I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | When Nigel was at home , Gina usually made him take them to the Launderette in a black dust bag . |
| 14 | And her suppliant 's face , round and even in this twilight , thickly flushed in the hectic way that he had seen before , repulsed him and made him take her by the arm she had raised and move it like a detached limb back to her side . |
| 15 | The men motioned me to go away , and after they had looked at Jordi 's papers I saw them escort him to a car . |
| 16 | She heard a muttered curse , she saw a shadow across the french window at the end of the room , she felt someone catch her round the waist and drag her to the ground . |
| 17 | She felt him gather himself like a beast on the powerful springs of its limbs . |
| 18 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 19 | As she went upstairs she saw him toss something in a little glass down his throat in one gulp and she saw the swollen nicotine-stained fingers and the watery bad-tempered eyes . |
| 20 | I saw him flush it down the toilet so that no-one will laugh at his spotty chest in the showers ! |
| 21 | Knew directly I saw him put her in a wheel-chair that we 'd a cardiac on our hands . |
| 22 | ‘ Hey lads , ’ he would shout as he pushed his head through the door , ‘ Did I tell you about the cover from ‘ What Difference … ’ ? |
| 23 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 24 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 25 | Did I tell you about the cocktail that Sal told me called erm |
| 26 | ‘ I knew , the moment I put the phone down from making that call to England , that not only did I love you with every breath of my being , but there was no way that I could take your being married to anyone but me . ’ |
| 27 | Only after leaving did I glimpse myself in the mirror . |
| 28 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 29 | Why did I see it in a story ? |
| 30 | Did I see anything of the riots ? |