Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't have to talk to them to see that . |
| 2 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 3 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 4 | We must train staff to teach as effectively as possible and should encourage them to see this as an important part of their job . |
| 5 | pressure of work on credit advises can tempt them to see this as a way of reducing the workload |
| 6 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 7 | Agents are notified of performances by the schools , and they also receive hundreds of letters from students inviting them to see particular performances . |
| 8 | There is a compensation scheme and the laibon wishes me to drive one of his sons fifty miles to a small town to collect the papers . |
| 9 | One obvious alternative to the hamburger is a sandwich — try chopped chicken or tuna on wholewheat ; ask them to go easy on the mayo . |
| 10 | In a country where most of us are taught to paddle on flat water , should we insist on putting novices into white water boats which are specifically designed to veer off course and then spend millions of man hours teaching them to go straight or should we put novices into boats designed to go in straight lines ? |
| 11 | Yet there is striking evidence that carts and wagons had been much improved , and that bridges were being built in many parts to make it possible for them to go longer distances . |
| 12 | Squigs are unpredictable and in many way the best thing that can happen is for them to go wild once they are near the enemy . |
| 13 | A man sits in his car at the traffic-lights , waiting for them to go green . |
| 14 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 15 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
| 16 | Some have the full range of infrastructural provision enabling them to accommodate all but the heaviest industries , while others are capable of occupation only by light industry or warehouses . |
| 17 | They can also use them to accommodate overseas staff home on leave , or to entertain business associates , or even as retirement gifts for long service staff . |
| 18 | Do you want me to sew this back on for you babe ? |
| 19 | Do n't go into the , this morning when she was doing activity she said ah , she said I I 've got them to spot ten similarities , ten differences , great ! |
| 20 | Perhaps you might even allow me to borrow one of your people as a guide around the city . |
| 21 | After the second assessment , social workers were asked whether participation in the research had encouraged them to include other people more fully in decision-making . |
| 22 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 23 | It also comes naturally to them to include any musical form with a sharp sense of its own absurdity ; ska , for instance ( there are touches of Madness here ) or a hyperactive brand of rhythm and blues ( they become almost a French Blues Brothers on Marcelle Ratafia ) . |
| 24 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 25 | It is a wise precaution for them to carry conventional insulins and have a regimen organised should they be troubled by pump failure . |
| 26 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 27 | There were an awful lot of tedious hours for me to kill that evening . |
| 28 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 29 | Delegates are regarded as mandated by those who elect them to support specific policies and to return to explain their subsequent decisions . |
| 30 | Peasant enclosures , however , were not so likely to do this as those by greater men , whose lands were sufficiently extensive for them to support large flocks and who would therefore have found such a conversion of land usage economically worth while . |