Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their neighbour , the writer Julia Strachey , found them " congenial souls and seeing them does cheer one up " , although she recalled one evening when Eliot suddenly emerged in a dressing gown apparently " utterly distraught and Strindbergian , with his at-all-times remarkable manner accentuated into something ghostly and weird . |
| 2 | Go on , you do n't want me to beg do you ? |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't want me to start flattering you , ’ he said dangerously . |
| 4 | This made them wish to take me to see something more lovely on the island . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds . |
| 7 | Rights , which constitute the groundwork of the State , inhere in individuals by virtue of their being members of society : ‘ A State which neglects them fails to build its foundations in the hearts of its citizens . ’ |
| 8 | I expected them to start flexing their muscles in a wrecking , ransacking assault on the ship . |
| 9 | Our purpose should be to provide visitors with experiences which will enhance their knowledge , enjoyment and appreciation of the work carried out here in ways that will make them wish to support us , but not overwhelm us . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll make me stop seeing my oldest friend , but you wo n't let your mistress go ! ’ |
| 11 | Well your glasses case you do n't want them going do you ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ They asked me to consider standing myself , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm 67 and I thought that was too old . ’ |
| 16 | They ( Barber ) asked me to come to see them if I was ever in Cornwall . |
| 17 | In other words , a facilitator is ultimately a person who helps the group bypass its defensive routines instead of helping them to learn to engage them in order to get rid of them . |
| 18 | It is also true to say that the minister ( man or woman ) is central in ensuring that the funeral service is a memorable event for the family by helping them to begin to understand their grief in the context of the church 's care for them . |
| 19 | Journalists who call to the farm to interview me do see us in that setting and describe it as they will but those really are only momentary glimpses into what must remain , fundamentally , my private life . |
| 20 | I ca n't , you ca n't , cos they wo n't let you take time off in lieu unless if it involves them having to employ somebody else to cover |
| 21 | It made me want to slap his face . |
| 22 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 23 | Something made me want to touch you . |
| 24 | That study , more than anything else probably , made me want to see what we could do in making services more adaptable and appropriate and comprehensive . ’ |
| 25 | The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day ! |
| 26 | Mama made me promise to feed you before she agreed to go to bed . |
| 27 | Before he went out , he made me promise to give you this . ’ |
| 28 | She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said . |
| 29 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 30 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |