Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could double and halve small numbers , decompose the calculation into components and recombine them to find the solution . |
| 2 | On the other I sell them to make a living . ’ |
| 3 | Trust me to choose the one man that would make it impossible . |
| 4 | ‘ Trust me to pick the most expensive . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Trust me to get a cat like you , ’ said Mildred fondly , stroking it with one hand and unclasping its claws with the other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Why Sir , they blind still those they take , And make them tell the stories of their lives , Which known , they do accordingly . |
| 9 | I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Head of Department : ‘ We already make them purchase a pad plus two HB pencils — total £1·50 for Art for the parents . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At best , they have an instinctive feeling for what will please people and make them like the product . |
| 16 | The balloonists will need the clothes that make them resemble the Michelin man . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 19 | erm make me explain the difference between irony and sarcasm . |
| 20 | Er , make me feel an idiot ! |
| 21 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 22 | ‘ If you make me leave the table , Hughie , I shall go straight down into the kitchen . |
| 23 | ‘ People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot ’ |
| 24 | ‘ At the moment , ’ she says , ‘ the people in Liverpool make me laugh a lot . ’ |
| 25 | People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | If ever Ari and Bernard had a tiff , Laura would take Ari on one side , explain all Bernard 's good points and the difficulties he had encountered and then ‘ make me write a letter saying how I respected him . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ All these changes , changes of circumstances and the change of the season , make me fear a change of rhythm and atmosphere . |
| 30 | I would agree that a hypnotist could not , for example , make me attack an innocent person . |