Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made them wish to take me to see something more lovely on the island . |
| 2 | THE parents of a little boy who died after being knocked down while learning his Green Cross Code told last night how he made them promise to give his organs to suffering children . |
| 3 | They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds . |
| 4 | I expected them to start flexing their muscles in a wrecking , ransacking assault on the ship . |
| 5 | I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema . |
| 6 | If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave . |
| 7 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 8 | ‘ They asked me to consider standing myself , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm 67 and I thought that was too old . ’ |
| 9 | They ( Barber ) asked me to come to see them if I was ever in Cornwall . |
| 10 | It made me want to slap his face . |
| 11 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 12 | Something made me want to touch you . |
| 13 | That study , more than anything else probably , made me want to see what we could do in making services more adaptable and appropriate and comprehensive . ’ |
| 14 | The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day ! |
| 15 | Mama made me promise to feed you before she agreed to go to bed . |
| 16 | Before he went out , he made me promise to give you this . ’ |
| 17 | She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said . |
| 18 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 19 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 20 | A feeling that I was horribly conspicuous made me wish to hide myself . |
| 21 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 22 | Now I am never ashamed of anything , for I consider shame to be a bourgeois and petty emotion , but this was the one occasion when I felt ashamed of myself , and I have never forgotten how sad it made me to have denied my principles for the sake of friendship and love — or what I imagined to be love . |
| 23 | Naturally , the other people appeared and something would crop up which made me Plan to give their adventures an airing in a future book . |
| 24 | I realized I had to do something about it myself . |
| 25 | As it rolled away , I realized I had left my parcel inside , and given the coachman all the coins in my purse . |
| 26 | But I realized I 'd said it so I tried to dig myself out the hole |
| 27 | On Wednesday after the selection committee meeting , I realized I 'd left my fountain pen in here . |
| 28 | went out of the house to go to , shut the door and realized I 'd left my cars in the house . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not that — I just realised I 've put you out of your bedroom , ’ she muttered , pulling on the socks . |
| 30 | Before I realised I 've got mine . |