Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She expected everyone to live up to her own high moral standards and there was an overwhelming feeling that if you did not , you had somehow failed . ’ |
| 2 | She made them walk backwards and forwards , and then trot . |
| 3 | He made them sing softly and then to sing loudly — smoking a cigar and strolling up and down with his walking-cane he had everyone in the audience completely under his control . |
| 4 | Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei 's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again . |
| 5 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 6 | The sharp night air made them step out . |
| 7 | As they reached Allen 's side a voice broke the stillness and made them spin round . |
| 8 | See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer . |
| 9 | What we do n't know is what they had in common that made them end up where they did . ’ |
| 10 | Okay there was thirty two baskets brought them all out made them gone off . |
| 11 | Then she made them slow down , and two oranges again spun between her hands . |
| 12 | Some knew about the various methods of pain relief available , but others had no idea at all , and this made them feel even less in control of what was happening to them . |
| 13 | It only made them laugh more . |
| 14 | They clutched each other and fell about , it made them laugh so much . |
| 15 | A whispering shriek of rage and terror behind them made them jump out of their skins . |
| 16 | Throwing the contact-breaker caused the overhead lights to flare briefly , and a well-aimed thump on the side of the box made them come back up . |
| 17 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
| 18 | All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name ! |
| 19 | A shout made them look up . |
| 20 | The clothes of skinhead girls made them look superficially like the boys . |
| 21 | Breeze and Gay were turning their steps towards Sunset Cottage when a terrific hoot made them look round ; and there was the Blessington-Dalrymples ' car , with Basil at the wheel and his parents and sister behind . |
| 22 | To be imprisoned side by side with them in the male domain made them look forward beyond Karlinsky 's address to the regular Saturday-night social in the communal hall next door when they would be able to get together , relax and talk without constraint . |
| 23 | When we returned together to Ninfania , you and I , in the late Fifties , there was litter in the streets of southern Italy , and it made them look more unfamiliar to you than the new buildings put up after the war and the bombing . |
| 24 | Although some of its own experiments were now showing that air pollution in southern England damaged leaves and made them fall early from trees , it could not bring itself to say as much . |
| 25 | The other guests will just be two of my colleagues and their wives , to whom I owe hospitality ’ — the way he said it made them sound utterly negligible , almost beneath contempt . |
| 26 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 27 | It was not the ever-present guard or the commandant 's threats that made them work so devotedly . |
| 28 | That 's what we are prepared for because when I saw Lithuania play the Danes a couple of weeks ago they made them work hard for everything they got . |
| 29 | It shows that about three-quarters of the male respondents replied that the tax system had no influence on their work effort , 15 per cent replied that it made them work more and 11 per cent that it made them work less . |
| 30 | He wore the same sombre clothes as Lever , a wine red pau that made them seem more like clerks than the heirs to great Companies . |