Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But if your governor 's away never trust nothing ring a vet .
2 The SNP , if it maintains its principles , need change nothing to collect the electoral windfall left by Labour 's rush to the right .
3 He could double and halve small numbers , decompose the calculation into components and recombine them to find the solution .
4 On the other I sell them to make a living . ’
5 Trust me to choose the one man that would make it impossible .
6 Trust me to pick the most expensive . ’
7 Trust me to get a cat like you , ’ said Mildred fondly , stroking it with one hand and unclasping its claws with the other .
8 Those too have been doubled and we are we trust them to appoint the magistrates upon whom we praise such responsibility and on whom we shall have such great praise .
9 ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’
10 And of course , That 's right yes , make them do the test first and of course , you may very well need some specialists depending again on as we said , whatever your team has got to do .
11 Why Sir , they blind still those they take , And make them tell the stories of their lives , Which known , they do accordingly .
12 I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant .
13 We have to tax those parking spaces , make them use the Park and Drive , but we 've got to get the carrot there first and the carrot is a much better operated Park and Drive .
14 Head of Department : ‘ We already make them purchase a pad plus two HB pencils — total £1·50 for Art for the parents .
15 So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again .
16 The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line .
17 People tend to assume that parents of mentally handicapped children and those who work with them are gifted with abnormal powers of patience and understanding , or suffused with some form of religious or social awareness that make them adopt a sacrificial purpose in life .
18 At best , they have an instinctive feeling for what will please people and make them like the product .
19 The balloonists will need the clothes that make them resemble the Michelin man .
20 All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ .
21 ‘ Okay , blue-eyes , ’ I drawled , even though they were green , ‘ be difficult and make me twist the information from you until you scream for my kisses … ’
22 erm make me explain the difference between irony and sarcasm .
23 Er , make me feel an idiot !
24 They make me want a lot of things that I never had .
25 ‘ If you make me leave the table , Hughie , I shall go straight down into the kitchen .
26 ‘ People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot ’
27 ‘ At the moment , ’ she says , ‘ the people in Liverpool make me laugh a lot . ’
28 People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot
29 Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it .
30 ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’
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