Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they worked in their home town , the audience would queue round the block to see them perform twice nightly . |
| 2 | Mothers enjoy protective and caring episodes in dealing with their children as much as they enjoy seeing them grow more independent Such episodes are a simple arid direct affirmation of the maternal role . |
| 3 | They were a friendly family and very helpful when Breeze , seeing them take so much trouble over finding a suitable board , told them what she hoped to do with it . |
| 4 | But I do n't think the readers of Aura will want me to dwell too much on the pain . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you want me to shut up first , or get you out and then shut up ? ’ said the Thing . |
| 6 | Do you want me to sort out some stuff . |
| 7 | Do you want me to cut out these date ones ? |
| 8 | Do you want me to come back another time , I — ’ |
| 9 | I mean , do you want me to ship over some cows ? |
| 10 | They clutched each other and fell about , it made them laugh so much . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nowadays , of course , we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious . |
| 14 | Mum an , mum and dad expected me to come up last week |
| 15 | Nobody took much notice of them or expected them to start up any form of conversation , so Charles was surprised when Eric addressed him by name . |
| 16 | Many other vegetables do not produce seed until the second year , and it is n't worth allowing them to take up valuable space for that extra time . |
| 17 | The films were thus split into sections of five seconds each , this interval appeared to be long enough to give subjects a feeling for what was going on while still allowing them to give fairly comprehensive descriptions of the objects and events contained within each film section . |
| 18 | The discount houses provide an important service to the banks by allowing them to hold extremely liquid assets ( money at call ) which nevertheless earn interest . |
| 19 | Skilled teachers of drama give pupils the tools of the trade , encouraging them to become more autonomous in their handling of the dramatic medium and so to take greater responsibility for their own learning . |
| 20 | , Inhabitants of the Dutch town of Hoofddorp are being issued with new dustbins implanted with a measuring device aimed at encouraging them to throw away less rubbish . |
| 21 | In such circumstances their use of slang and informal language may make them seem rather stupid in the eyes of others . |
| 22 | We shall take it that their surface structure is : ( 44 ) This may at first make them seem somewhat analogous to the predicate qualifiers , except that the noun phrase beyond the mediating verb is here the subject of the clause rather than the object as with the predicate qualifiers , and it is to the entity of this noun phrase that the property of the adjective applies . |
| 23 | He 's just a useless teacher and he does n't make me feel really confident . ’ |
| 24 | I thought it would make me feel less helpless if I was opposed by something definite . |
| 25 | Being honest about our motivation is crucial since , at this stage , we might discover that it is not our own Dream at all , or that our motivation is somewhat dubious : ‘ It will impress my friends ’ , ‘ It will be one in the eye for my parents ’ , ‘ It will ease my sense of guilt ’ , ‘ It will make me feel more secure ’ , ‘ It will give me power over other people ’ , ‘ It will make me feel special ’ , ‘ It 's what my partner keeps suggesting I do ’ , ‘ It 's the opposite of what my partner suggests I do . ’ |
| 26 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 27 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 28 | I do hope he is n't the murderer , I do n't want them to lock up one of my best contacts , but if you ever hear where he really was , I 'd love to know . ’ |
| 29 | I could n't bear that they should always pay for me because I did n't want them to know how awful Robert had become . |
| 30 | It was felt by many politicians and officials that local government , in its recent form , was slow and inept so that the departments dealing with local authorities either developed a mass of controls to enable them to watch over local authorities or actually withdrew services from the local authorities . |