Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terrace tiles were already warm under her bare feet ; the sunlight , when she looked towards it , stung her eyes and made them water . |
| 2 | The liberal ideas of this group , and the fact that several of its members were known or alleged to belong to the secretive Catholic brotherhood , Opus Dei , made them anathema to the " old shirt " Falangists and the Catholic integrists . |
| 3 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 4 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 5 | Frankie 's very success made them part of the pop family . |
| 6 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 7 | With an effort , she made them part , and then her vocal cords let her down by refusing to work . |
| 8 | And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs . |
| 9 | Yeah but I made them non-copper so they would n't . |
| 10 | Fru Gertlinger , the young wife of the gardener at the Villa , recently become housekeeper , made them picnic lunches and every day they rode out early to check their notes and make sure that they had missed nothing . |
| 11 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
| 12 | We met them face to face and he gave his full backing . |
| 13 | Timothy Gedge was as ordinary as anyone else , but the ill fortune of circumstances or nature made ordinary people eccentric and lent them colour in the greyness . |
| 14 | She and her accupuncturist partner , Richard Spindler , are now in serious debt , they say , because Lloyds lent them money without proper advice and called in the loan after overcharging them . |
| 15 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 16 | There is no doubt that my masters often lent me dignity and subtlety altogether beyond my needs . |
| 17 | The women invited me into their homes , lent me jewellery , materials , head-dresses and all manner of objects to draw , explaining their uses in a mixture of English and Arabic . |
| 18 | ‘ Spewed me ring up all night , then I went and rode me bike into that mooring rope over there , ’ he indicated further up the dock . |
| 19 | Then Heathcliff asked me question after question about Catherine 's illness . |
| 20 | You asked me advice and I 'm givin' it to you . |
| 21 | This perception was increased by the behavior of my father , who cared nothing tor appearances it this allowed him to save money . |
| 22 | Well , it began with just when I got me money each week , 'cos I had a job , a weekend job with me uncle and I 'd get me money and I 'd just go out and score , get a coupla bags or something and then me mates 'd come round here and say , ‘ Can I do a smoke in here ? ’ , y'know , and so they would and they 'd give me a smoke for coming in here and eventually it started getting , like , from weeks , from weekends to days , becoming every day , like . |
| 23 | ‘ I got me church to see to , ’ began Mr Piggott , truculently . |
| 24 | So , he got me handbag and took off with me bottle of DFs and me book from the social and said he 'd give it me back once he 'd cashed enough to pay the bread off . |
| 25 | ‘ Was n't I the best prospect Bermondsey 'ad for a long time before I got me wound ? ’ he asked . |
| 26 | In the event , he made me captive there , and closed impenetrable bars about himself . |
| 27 | I did n't show my true colours until they made me chairman . |
| 28 | I will return … when He has healed me … made me whole again … |
| 29 | Liese made me dinner in the Chinese style : miso soup , stir-fried vegetables , sweetsap for dessert . |
| 30 | What really made me sick was Claire , who was kneeling behind her , brushing her hair . |