Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The competition made them decide to move to Easingwold , some 22 miles away as the crow flies and nearer 28 miles along the winding roads .
2 They were similar types : happy , uncomplicated , but with an undercurrent of seriousness that made them want to take different directions , see with their own eyes , not other people 's .
3 The horrors of war made them want to prevent conflict .
4 What was it about the name that made them want to funk on down and start praising the Lord ?
5 Mothers shaved the heads of their daughters and then made them undress to take cold baths in public on the Hill of Calvary .
6 But , more than that , it made them feel involved at last .
7 So Anna bullied the trustees into changing her investments , she made them get rid of large blocks of French loan and Russian railways and go into something pacific and domestic instead like American soap companies .
8 This made them wish to take me to see something more lovely on the island .
9 THE parents of a little boy who died after being knocked down while learning his Green Cross Code told last night how he made them promise to give his organs to suffering children .
10 They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds .
11 I expected them to start flexing their muscles in a wrecking , ransacking assault on the ship .
12 You expected them to stay put .
13 And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and
14 I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema .
15 When she felt the time was right , she took the cushions from the couch , arranged them on the floor and asked me to lie face down .
16 If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave .
17 Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook .
18 ‘ They asked me to consider standing myself , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm 67 and I thought that was too old . ’
19 They ( Barber ) asked me to come to see them if I was ever in Cornwall .
20 They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself .
21 ‘ I do n't know , but on the night she died the Lady Prioress asked me to help take the corpse back to her own chamber .
22 who moved out , that led me to want to live in the flats .
23 Aye that was Well that that was on the platform when I got me face burnt and me left hand , which I think was burnt trying to protect me me head or face at the time .
24 The sound that really got me going came from one of the A3 's ROM cards , numbered SPC-04 , a patch called ‘ Amp 66 ’ which is also stored in the A2 's internal memory as patch 63 .
25 Den it made me gu looking fe a job ,
26 Increasing disability made me to decide buy a Disabled Person 's Scooter .
27 It made me want to slap his face .
28 I liked him , and he was different from other boys , not at all pushy , except pushy to please I suppose , but even that was sweet in a way — it made me want to say , it 's all right , do n't fret so much , I 'm having a perfectly nice time , slow down .
29 I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself .
30 Something made me want to touch you .
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