Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they went after something nothing made them waver , just as he had set after her . |
| 2 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 3 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 6 | Her grey eyes when she looked at me made me tremble . |
| 7 | Just watching them made me feel ill . |
| 8 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 9 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 10 | A whispering shriek of rage and terror behind them made them jump out of their skins . |
| 11 | What if someone made you come ? |
| 12 | I made myself calm down and Miles Davis 's clear tones on the stereo helped a lot . |
| 13 | Neil , bring cup of tea in here and we 'll talk about it and I did n't really want to spare the time because you could imagine that I wanted to get ready to come away but I I made myself sit and really give him time |
| 14 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought I made myself clear this morning , Rincewind . |
| 16 | It was not possible to hurry downhill in that half-light , so I made myself go slowly , and at last reached the beach and the end of the causeway . |
| 17 | But , you know , I had to live , so I made myself go out . |
| 18 | I wanted desperately to be with him , to comfort him , but somehow I made myself keep walking , and when a coach passed , I arranged to travel on it as far as my money would pay for . |
| 19 | I made myself smile . |
| 20 | I made myself believe we shared a cause . |
| 21 | I made them wash and iron and do certain cleaning jobs to earn their spending money . |
| 22 | I made them suffer and gradually the fear went , but it left a — a sort of boiling rage . ’ |
| 23 | I made them show me their identification … |
| 24 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
| 25 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 26 | They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds . |
| 27 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 28 | At the top of the back stairs I made them wait . |
| 29 | ‘ That was because I came from the most stable period of his life and I made him feel secure . ’ |
| 30 | I made him repeat and repeat the lessons until they started to sink in and became easier . |