Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 2 | In fact , the numbers of Punch aficionados make me worry that the same end will come to the comp complex as came to Punch . |
| 3 | ‘ The scripts make me sound very smart and I like that , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Holmes ' warm words of thanks made me feel much happier , and I saw that he was right . |
| 5 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 6 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 7 | The kids helped me pile up the slabs and we ‘ borrowed ’ a barrow from the house-renovators next door to transport the broken humps of concrete , via some wobbly ramps , to a spoil heap up the garden . |
| 8 | I 'll swear those squirrels heard me name the day ! |
| 9 | I told myself I was waiting out there for the signals to let me know David and Leon had gone to bed , lights switched off at their bedroom windows , at least some movement of the curtains . |
| 10 | Er but I , I think really I was probably er you know I was er when I look back , erm I was not in the , in the , er what , what words do I want . |
| 11 | What subjects do I include , at what stage ? |
| 12 | And what thanks do I get , eh ? |
| 13 | Not one word of thanks do I get from her or from Sunil or his wife … |
| 14 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 15 | Ashamed of having frightened me , he looked at me sweetly and began to sing Italian songs to make me forget the incident ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ My mother , ’ said Bernard , suddenly , talkative at last , ‘ is a mean-spirited , disgusting bitch ; a big fat mammy , and to think that I was born from between her legs makes me want to vomit . |
| 17 | She strokes its white flesh against her black cheek , then slides it into her red mouth and rolls her eyes to make me laugh , and I think , Jesus , is that what it 's like ? |
| 18 | ‘ In the same way as some people might go to church and seek absolution , accepting that I have confessed to these sins makes me feel better . |
| 19 | Certainly nothing happened in my personal experience in the last six or so months to make me change my mind about Labour unelectability . |
| 20 | On the other , my parents made me feel horrible , guilty . |
| 21 | ‘ My parents made me do it . |
| 22 | When I was 19 my parents made me leave home , and after a series of disastrous relationships I became pregnant . |
| 23 | Of course , I had no idea whether these ladies were right or wrong , but the revelation of fragments of past lives helped me come to terms with my true nature , and to understand why I had been troubled in the past . |
| 24 | Before you reach for your collecting tins let me say they develop a good wheeze of taking in gullible Western guests and faking a few midnight tiger sightings with the aid of a collection of clockwork beasts and some carefully concealed tapes . |
| 25 | But to yon Gardens let me lead thy Charms , |
| 26 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 27 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 28 | ‘ I shall convince the parents to let me come and stay with you in the holidays , ’ Antonia had promised . |
| 29 | What books/newspapers do I read ? |
| 30 | But I got myself straightened out and I was in the mood then to write some words , get into being into the music , get the tunes making me groove . ’ |