Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made them wish to take me to see something more lovely on the island . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll make me stop seeing my oldest friend , but you wo n't let your mistress go ! ’ |
| 6 | It made me want to slap his face . |
| 7 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 8 | Something made me want to touch you . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | Mama made me promise to feed you before she agreed to go to bed . |
| 12 | Before he went out , he made me promise to give you this . ’ |
| 13 | She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A feeling that I was horribly conspicuous made me wish to hide myself . |
| 17 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 18 | Naturally , the other people appeared and something would crop up which made me Plan to give their adventures an airing in a future book . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Ann helped me try to resuscitate him . |
| 22 | I find some offences disgust me , Im let the guy know , but then I let them know I want to help them |
| 23 | What sort of build-up d' ya want to give me d' ya want people to have of you . |
| 24 | D' ya want to turn your bath off ? |
| 25 | What d' you mean back it up ? |
| 26 | ‘ D' you mean to tell me she 's in the Wrens ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ D' you mean to tell me that this is the first time you 've slept with anyone ? ’ he asked incredulously . |
| 28 | D' you want to kill me ? |
| 29 | ‘ D' you want to put her off completely ? ’ |
| 30 | D' you want to see me in prison ? ’ |