Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will oblige them to make long drives across the desert to Egypt or Tunisia when they want to leave the country . |
| 2 | That barrier , a common external tariff , was integral to the Treaty of Rome , which wanted to go beyond a free trade area to a customs union , which the Six believed was a far more effective way of developing the potential of their internal market , the logic of which would ultimately oblige them to adopt common policies and harmonise their regulations . |
| 3 | After young bands have had a couple of hit singles , with their album selling well , everybody wants to see them perform live . |
| 4 | We like to see them brought low , made to suffer , made to pay . |
| 5 | The band failed to advise said fans , who have endured a five-year wait to see them play live in the UK , that tickets went on sale last Saturday , and sold out on the same day . |
| 6 | ‘ Profit-centre ’ managers in their turn submit to the iron law of quarterly or annual return-on-investment ( ROI ) calculation , which hardly encourages them to become far-sighted captains of industry . |
| 7 | ‘ Leaving videos aside , I wo n't sign a band without seeing them perform live , if that is possible . |
| 8 | Other ways we find bands include : ( a ) being recognized in the industry as a company that is worth approaching ( managers with new artists drop in to play a tape to me or any of the other A&R people ) ; ( b ) demo tapes ( they all get heard eventually , but to get your tape picked out of the pile for special attention is difficult ) ; ( c ) seeing them play live on the London circuit . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're enjoying seeing me laid low , are n't you ? ’ she snapped testily . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you want me to become famous and liberate myself from you ? ’ |
| 11 | We have pressed them to make provisional payments where necessary , to ensure that students do not suffer hardship . |
| 12 | A teacher at the junior high school in the town of Kizu made them hold negative and positive terminals while he turned on an electric current . |
| 13 | She looked different with her hair cut and it made them feel shy . |
| 14 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |
| 15 | The audience , too , was painfully hungry and yet in the presence of food which was not apparently destined for their stomachs ; this made them feel weak and peevish . |
| 16 | Probably Dizzy 's gang , keeping out of the way in case the sight of others working made them feel weak . |
| 17 | Working alongside such eroticism made them feel awkward . |
| 18 | It was found that some aromas made people feel drowsy , others made them feel uplifted or even euphoric . |
| 19 | They concluded that by taking people out of their own homes , however modest , they were being removed from conditions which they knew and made them feel secure into ‘ a new social environment in which priority is given to the collectivity over the individual . ’ |
| 20 | Stepping out made them feel bold and confident and strong . |
| 21 | Rebel Males by Graham McCann ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.99 ) — Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean , the subjects of this literate and readable study , pioneered a new kind of rebel as screen hero : they exuded primeval , ambiguous sexuality , and were not afraid of roles that made them look vulnerable , foolish or insecure . |
| 22 | A dull sheen just on the curve of each shoe 's toe instantly made them look solid . |
| 23 | ‘ I could n't live with myself if I sent someone on their way with an outfit that made them look awful . ’ |
| 24 | Made them look old before their time . |
| 25 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 26 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |
| 27 | It made them Feel big , boosted their egos . |
| 28 | One of the deficiencies of our arrangements is that no provision is made for young barristers obtaining a salaried position in chambers , allowing them to do minor work under supervision . |
| 29 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 30 | Small producers have provided larger companies with an important cushion against fluctuations in demand by allowing them to use outside suppliers as shock absorbers . |