Example sentences of "[vb past] i [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money made me gu out an rob |
| 2 | They made me move in to live with them as something they called their au-pair girl , mostly to exercise two new Great Dane puppies . |
| 3 | Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves . |
| 4 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 5 | ‘ He made me dress up in clothes like my mother 's . |
| 6 | Or when Tom says , ‘ My teacher made me stay in today ’ , parents would do well to resist the temptation to answer , ‘ Now what have you done ? ’ , or ‘ I suppose you deserved it ’ , replies which would have inflamed his feelings . |
| 7 | The thought of her tits pressed up against my face nearly made me throw up , and I had-to disappoint him . |
| 8 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 9 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 10 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 11 | I was , moreover , amused by the juxtaposition of names in the Bedford High Street — Blood , Sand , DeAth : the bullring , of course ! — which made me think back to my Special Subject paper in the Finals , on the Spanish Background of English Literature . |
| 12 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 13 | For several seconds I do n't know what made me wake up . |
| 14 | ‘ The Ukrainian Peel sessions actually made me sit up and take notice . |
| 15 | That made me sit up . |
| 16 | It made me sit down with my wife and remember all kinds of things . ’ ’ |
| 17 | Stuart came home last night in his usual cheerful mood , gave me a kiss , put his arm round me and made me sit down as if he had something important to say . |
| 18 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 19 | It made me sit down and think , ‘ I do n't give a damn what they 're saying . |
| 20 | You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself . |
| 21 | What made me go out that night when , normally , I would have stayed in and watched television ? |
| 22 | Then , to me : ‘ We went to Orkney last summer , and she made me crawl in through a ghastly tunnel into some underground charnel-house . |
| 23 | He pipped me mum and made me jump out of my bloody skin . |
| 24 | ‘ I heard a lot of apples fall — that 's what made me come over , ’ said the farmer . |
| 25 | That evening one of the Corporals made me clean out the crow 's cage ; I lifted the large black bird out and parked it on the gravel beside a flowerbed . |
| 26 | My mother made me take up tap dancing , because I 'd got sparrow legs . |
| 27 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 28 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 29 | Then after that , when I started writing more songs , people were saying ‘ Oh , that song of yours sounds like so-and-so , ’ which made me dig back to find out what they were talking about , back to music like The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Velvet Underground , Jimi Hendrix , Neil Young . |
| 30 | A sound from overhead made me look up . |