Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Handiman made everyone think about the handicapped person in their family that it 's easy to deny , ’ says Damon , who may have found the character 's roots in his own childhood club foot . |
| 2 | Micro Focus plc this week is supposed to announce a new client/server OLTP Transaction System that will let customers emulate CICS and help them migrate from the mainframe to a client/server environment . |
| 3 | And forced as she was by circumstances to bring her own dirty and vicious brood to work with her , she took a great pleasure in letting them loose on the two youngest Milligans , deliberately ignoring their torments and teases . |
| 4 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 5 | But , who let them loose in the launderette |
| 6 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 7 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 8 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 9 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 10 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 11 | This time of the building of the gardens of our minds makes me think of the Pacific Ocean where insects spin the sunlight and the salt water , and weave them into the most beautiful oases of the sea . |
| 12 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 13 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 14 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 15 | Er with reference to the great pestilence er makes me think of the original great pestilence , the Black Death and of course er contaminated individuals be put in a pest house far away from places of habitation but they can contaminate others which one ca n't help thinking that it would be quite a good policy has commissioned . |
| 16 | Use a sunscreen with a SPF greater than 10 from 6 months onwards , and then only let them stay in the sun for short periods . |
| 17 | She meant Hepzibah and Mister Johnny and how she owed it to them to let them stay in the house because there was nowhere else they could go , not with Mister Johnny 's shy ways . |
| 18 | If then they still do not help , bring all your people and let them stay in the office until it is done . |
| 19 | If women want to be in the home then certainly let them stay in the home . |
| 20 | There is considerable ( ? deliberate ) confusion about the figures , but it seems that general practice and community services will receive about 4% extra revenue next year to help them prepare for the extra workload . |
| 21 | Let me explain for the benefit of viewers that a sump is like a U-bend in plumbing , permanently full of water , so that the only way through is to dive under the water . |
| 22 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 23 | A witness says she saw them knock on the door . ’ |
| 24 | We must let them know at the station , or there will be an awful accident . ’ |
| 25 | Significantly , he added : ‘ If the answer is no , I 'll be letting them know by the end of this month . ’ |
| 26 | Let them know from the start that they were dealing with a kulak , not a noble . |
| 27 | If so , estimate how long this will take , call the candidates for interview that much earlier than you would otherwise have done , and let them know in the letter that they are to be given a tour first . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw state policemen drag strikers across the road and make them kneel in the ditch there while they held shotguns in their backs . |
| 29 | When we hear them bellow on the |
| 30 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |