Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 2 | A whispering shriek of rage and terror behind them made them jump out of their skins . |
| 3 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
| 4 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 5 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 6 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 7 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 8 | The hot car seats stung the children 's bare legs and made them cry out in protest . |
| 9 | His only concern was for his own men and for the standards and traditions he expected them to live up to . |
| 10 | It amused me to think back to my life in London . |
| 11 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 12 | ‘ Then , about a month later , he asked me to go up to Camp David while he and his family were using the facility . |
| 13 | Yeah eh she asked me to go over to John |
| 14 | Perhaps the toner fluid intoxicated her — there were over a hundred sheets to copy — or maybe it was the lack of air in the photocopying room , but after we had done and she had commented favourably on the comprehensive and detailed nature of the notes , she asked me to go out with her . |
| 15 | ‘ No , David asked me to go back for coffee but I refused . ’ |
| 16 | She asked me to join in like a kind of guinea pig and keep a weekly budget . |
| 17 | Well , Ibrahim asked me to call in at Mohammed Fingari 's to get a package for him . |
| 18 | Rob Maidment asked me to fax through to you the hotel plan for the shoot from Sunday night next week . |
| 19 | I should have spoken to you this afternoon about the stock footage you asked me to follow up on . |
| 20 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 21 | I met Charlie , and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service . |
| 22 | When he joined Ingard and wanted a number two he thought of me and asked me to come in with him . |
| 23 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 24 | I had not looked through those volumes for many years , until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more . |
| 25 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 26 | It 's not often that I can say a piece of equipment is inspiring , but reviewing the A2 actually got me coming up with some ideas that I just had to get on tape . |
| 27 | Did George suggest you got me mixed up in all this ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ He made me dress up in clothes like my mother 's . |
| 29 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 30 | I was , moreover , amused by the juxtaposition of names in the Bedford High Street — Blood , Sand , DeAth : the bullring , of course ! — which made me think back to my Special Subject paper in the Finals , on the Spanish Background of English Literature . |