Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] i [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 2 | My heart was beating in my throat making it hard to swallow , my nose was running , my hands were cold and I could n't get enough oxygen , which made me yawn every few seconds . |
| 3 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 4 | It was only semi-erotic because she made me wear a condom . |
| 5 | She made me sign the paper . ’ |
| 6 | Because I am a very poor man you made me accept a figure like six million lire ( £2,500 ) . |
| 7 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 8 | I thought it would have got better by itself — it was my son who made me call the doctor ’ |
| 9 | I could never cook myself a meal , even with such complete mod. cons , and Hellen , who helped me arrange the furniture , pictures and scrolls , would tease me as ‘ the eternal bachelor ’ who could not fry an egg or boil water without burning it . |
| 10 | ‘ You helped me buy the land for the new town when I first came to Haiti . |
| 11 | Two were routine , one richly comic , one quite serious ; and in none did I experience the slightest pain or discomfort . |
| 12 | Something made me snatch the woolly choirboy from its metal gallows ( even at that moment I noticed its surprising weight ) . |
| 13 | I then did a physical which they made me run a mile and a half , did press ups , sit ups , which I passed . |
| 14 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
| 15 | As for Meredith-Lee 's death , if you 're asking me did I construct a bomb and blow him up , the answer is no . |
| 16 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 17 | but in , no it 's not red , it 'll , I think it 's military police , erm , that 's how she can do it with er , erm a maroon beret , because she said to me did I want a peaked cap ? and I said no the , the er , erm maroon beret , so it shows its the parachute regiment |
| 18 | As Doreen says to me did I see the one on number six ? |
| 19 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 20 | ‘ If I 'd been bad he made me copy the notices and labels in cases . |
| 21 | Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it . |
| 22 | It 's very peculiar — he made me feel a fool . |
| 23 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 24 | You can either draw it model it made me draw the last one I 'll model it this time , it 's good fun ! |
| 25 | I thought about it and it made me feel a bit better . |
| 26 | You know , it made me feel a bit sick last night . |
| 27 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 28 | It made me think a lot about photography while I was in prison ; it was like why are you doing this ? ’ |
| 29 | It made me recall the list of supposed super-powers of Ardakkeans . |
| 30 | So er it was n't pleasant and I did n't have it a lot either , because I never were very big , and I never liked punishment , it made me cry every time . |