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

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1 Make them feel looked after .
2 You can also find inspirational management texts designed to tell top executives how to be kinder to employees , treat them with respect , listen to them , and make them feel appreciated .
3 so all that writing is actually surrounding your picture is n't it , you 've come up with your sensational picture and then you surround your sensational picture with your writing , I was saying to him with these little sub-headings like trapped , right , cost , holiday , okay which actually keep your reader hooked and make them want to read on .
4 Good advertising communicates the right message to the right people at the right time in a way that will interest or amuse them , but above all make them want to buy the product , service , or even " idea " .
5 make them like swimming hats with lots of little flowers all over them
6 It simply refers to all the things the retailer does to look after the customers — the things that make them enjoy visiting that shop or store .
7 You make me decide to go on a diet immediately , though even if I starved for a month I 'd never get a waist as slim as yours . ’
8 If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own .
9 I just find those subject the easiest to deal with : on the one hand , they 're the most tangible feelings I have to pull out of myself ; on the other , they make me want to make a stronger statement when I ultimately do that .
10 At least — at least — I do n't know what it is about you , Miss Abbott , but you make me want to bare my soul to you — I did have a wife once , years ago , when I was very young , but she left me , not I her , to live with someone else .
11 You make me want to throw up !
12 ‘ You make me want to throw up . ’
13 It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’
14 And the truth that I insist I have discovered about the animal world is that it is never , ever boring .
15 display I have to put out .
16 Ballesteros described his 66 yesterday as ‘ the best round I 've played this year ’ .
17 So , round I went to have a look .
18 Nineteen years later , in an angry letter from Italy about some review I 'd written which began : ‘ Jesus Gawd Aiken , you poor blithering ass ’ he concluded by saying : ‘ I 've never forgotten that you would n't go to the Blast dinner . ’
19 As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College .
20 The watercolour sketch I have started here Gulls Feeding ( Figure 8 ) is a compilation and uses repetition of the shapes in the sketches to build up a sense of activity .
21 Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out .
22 ‘ I fear I have shocked you , Alice , ’ he was saying , albeit with a slight smile lifting the corners of his mouth , ‘ but as you know , the option of marriage is not open to us .
23 I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers .
24 I mean I use to do a full time job outside the home , then come back and do all the housework and the washing and the children .
25 Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound
26 So I said to him , right I said we either go I mean I keep saying to him you 've got ta do something about this !
27 I mean I remember reading a few bits in English but , you know ,
28 I think the difficulty is , though I mean I remember getting blind drunk as a student , and I loved it .
29 I mean I walked to work every Saturday and Sunday no matter what the weather
30 Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months .
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