Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 2 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 3 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 4 | I would nt be at all suprised to see them play in the ‘ theatre of dreams ’ . |
| 5 | We pour much time , money , anxiety and effort into our children simply for the pleasure of seeing them grow into the kind of people we long for them to be . |
| 6 | On seeing them waddle down the street , like a mass of quivering flesh , we usually ran upstairs to warn Mum of the advancing horde . |
| 7 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 8 | The central position which the Communists occupied in these campaigns was a result of their international connections , which made them appear as the principal opponents of Fascism . |
| 9 | He made them sound like the Famous Five |
| 10 | He made them sound like the Famous Five . |
| 11 | Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance . |
| 12 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 13 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 14 | If you 'll let me , I 'll come racing with you — if you 'll make me part of the team ? ’ she finished a little anxiously . |
| 15 | That we should cut off the electricity and make everyone live in the dark ? |
| 16 | The individuals ' personal history , what they have done , who they have been , what has been important to them , makes them come ‘ alive ’ , helping them emerge from the ‘ elderly ’ or ‘ dependent ’ or ‘ infirm ’ stereotypes . |
| 17 | ‘ Handiman made everyone think about the handicapped person in their family that it 's easy to deny , ’ says Damon , who may have found the character 's roots in his own childhood club foot . |
| 18 | He promised ( i ) to drop immediately the 10 per cent tax on imports ; ( ii ) to eliminate Central Bank financing of the National Treasury , except for guaranteed financing provisions , and to streamline fiscal accounts to avoid deficits ; ( iii ) to combat speculation ; ( iv ) to end private and public monopolies ; ( v ) to introduce tax reforms at the beginning of the new year aimed at simplifying the tax system and making it more progressive to " make everyone participate in the national effort " ; and ( vi ) to carry out an administrative reform in the state sector with some state companies to be privatized . |
| 19 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 20 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 21 | There were times when Joanna 's somewhat footslogging performance made me long for the thoroughbred feel of Lisa , but I had an affection for Joanna and she had one advantage over Lisa — her small cuddy where I could cook and sleep , and be independent of the land . |
| 22 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 23 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 24 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 25 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 26 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 27 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 28 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 29 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 30 | They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them . |