Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes er what what er the pitch I think in fact I 've heard them say this er because I 've been out with two of the top fliers up here |
| 2 | That you can easily lose your concentration and go off to sleep and so it is in the truth , so we need to stay awake , stand firm for almighty , be vigilant and again in the scriptures we could look up half a dozen scriptures in the Christian Greek scriptures to show that we need to keep spiritually awake and it uses different terminology you 've heard me use some already , remember the one in verse Peter four , verse seven ? |
| 3 | ‘ I hate to see them do that , but it is better than the children being trampled underfoot in the rush . |
| 4 | I pay a great tribute to my dad , who as a trade unionist on the railway would have been so proud to see me receive this very great honour . |
| 5 | Seeing them like that , and the strange fear in their faces , stirred Harry in a way he could not quite understand , and for a moment he almost felt sorry for them . |
| 6 | ‘ Awful , seeing me like this , ’ she murmured . |
| 7 | Grief , I hate people seeing me like this , she thought . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I feel awful anyone seeing me like this , ’ said Ianthe faintly . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging . |
| 11 | It shows that about three-quarters of the male respondents replied that the tax system had no influence on their work effort , 15 per cent replied that it made them work more and 11 per cent that it made them work less . |
| 12 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
| 13 | Well some of the questions you think erm you think erm you know , are n't they a bit well way out or what made them ask that . |
| 14 | they 've made it so as it , it do , you see I , I , I reckon you ought to open my let me make them in te in steel because er they made them like that so that when you pull them off or adjust them |
| 15 | But Graham and Russell , if anything more composed , made them defend that advantage , and the Chelsea defence responded with a disorder to which only Ken Monkou was an exception . |
| 16 | Often he made them criticize each other 's work . |
| 17 | Gravity attracts objects towards each other ; antigravity would make them repel each other . |
| 18 | Erm the people who have problems erm I would think , because of of feeling probably the way , they feel about living in the flats or about having to live in that way , does n't make them feel any batter about erm you know any any other particular difficulties that they 're having . |
| 19 | In former ages we us 'd to give , So that our work-folk like farmers did live ; But the times are altered , we will make them know All we can for to bring them under our bow ; We will make them work hard for sixpence a day , Though a shilling they deserve if they had their just pay . |
| 20 | I really can not find fault with this book except to say that even splendid photography can not make me love all of Piffetti 's furniture . |
| 21 | No review , no trophy , no accolade in the world will ever make me feel that good again . |
| 22 | This was just as well , because I must have looked pea green , and it did n't make me feel any better to watch Olive sitting up front chatting to the pilot and navigator , obviously having the time of her life . |
| 23 | That did n't make me feel any happier . |
| 24 | My strap-watch said it was ten minutes off seven and that did n't make me feel any better . |
| 25 | Daddy 's gon na make me eat some tomato and , and cucumber |
| 26 | There are times these days when I feel so starved of warmth that the instructions on a painkiller packet or vitamin tub ( " At the first sign of a cold developing be sure to … " ) can make me go all husky and brave . |
| 27 | Why did you make me do that ? |
| 28 | No Peter does n't make me laugh either . |
| 29 | Do n't make me say that ! |
| 30 | ‘ I look forward to contributing further in helping them achieve all their objectives . ’ |