Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had taken up the idea , she supposed , and made everything bend to it . |
| 2 | He can break up the rhythm with the deceptive powers of a confidence trickster and made something happen from seemingly stagnant positions . |
| 3 | It was only when Maisie emerged from the back kitchen , wearing her third headscarf of the morning ( this one was in Liberty print and made her look as if she was about to go out to watch titled men shooting grouse ) , that he felt emboldened to get close enough to hear what they were saying . |
| 4 | There was a tone in his voice that Breeze had never heard before — a tone that startled her , and made her look at him with wide , bewildered eyes . |
| 5 | When she turned her head away he captured her face between strong hands and made her look at him . |
| 6 | Bending down , he stared into her face , his long fingers strangely gentle as he cupped her cheek and made her look at him . |
| 7 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 8 | It has affected me and made me pause for thought . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 11 | Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things . |
| 12 | Sometimes they cluster on a page like blackberries on a fecund bush , and made me wonder with a stab of unease whether my own writings on American politics and presidents have not managed equally often narrowly to miss the usage and the nomenclature . |
| 13 | She took him into the living-room and made him sit in the black leather armchair . |
| 14 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |
| 15 | They had suddenly pulled up his breeches and made him stand in the corner . |
| 16 | As he was one of our Corporals , the Military Police had sought him out and made him return to barracks . |
| 17 | William II , Henry I and Stephen all won the throne by holding rivals at bay , and in each case warfare played its part ; in Henry 's case the battle of Tinchebrai ( 1106 ) enabled him to imprison his elder brother for life and made him secure in Normandy as well as in England ( see pp. 289 ff . ) . |
| 18 | Selkirk pushed him in and made him squat on a stone ledge while he cut free his bound hands only to fasten gyves to his wrists and ankles ; attached by chains to the wall ; these allowed Corbett to move but quickly chafed his wrists and ankles . |
| 19 | I took his shoulders and made him look at me . |
| 20 | He held the mutilated carving close before Harry 's face and made him look at it . |
| 21 | The alcohol had sapped the strength out of his jaw muscles so that the skin fell in folds and made him look like a tortoise . |
| 22 | Tom took his hand and made him point to the letters , going from left to right , sounding out each one . |
| 23 | Judging that Miller had been snoring long enough , he shook him till he woke , and made him drive to Turnhouse . |
| 24 | When she took off her glasses the sun caught her eyes and made them flash like green torches . |
| 25 | As for the three goblins , they crept back to the king of the vookodlaks and he beat them all , and made them stand on their heads in the mud for three years and thirty days . |
| 26 | He got on very well with the patients , and made them laugh without taking umbrage when they laughed at him . |
| 27 | Then Brown Owl called to the Brownies who were left and made them lie with their heads pointing towards the swampland , then with the last two Brownies she made an arrowhead , like this : — |
| 28 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 29 | Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms . |
| 30 | The mosquitoes had already arrived in force and made us feel as if one trench was very much like another . |