Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how can the competing factors in the industry then distinguish the service they provide from that of their competitors ? |
| 2 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 3 | The ‘ domino effect ’ is often very noticeable ; one person 's comments , whether positive or negative , influence the person who follows . |
| 4 | How , for example , education , culture , psychological and physiological factors influence the way we react to an image . |
| 5 | The reasons for which it is drawn influence the way it is drawn . |
| 6 | However , the labels used in the United States also react with and influence the result which the court believes to be correct . |
| 7 | Attitudes towards pain and discomfort influence the use one makes of medical services . |
| 8 | Does the form of analysis influence the priority they are given ? |
| 9 | Our wickets started tumbling the moment we went in . |
| 10 | During his convalescence he met the girl who was to become his wife at the local hunt ball and married her before returning to France . |
| 11 | Fulham , London , adds : ‘ If I ever met the person who did it , I 'd say : ‘ I hope you have a daughter and I hope someone does that to her one day . ’ ‘ . |
| 12 | But as Elisabeth stood watching she noticed that where the sea met the shore it broke in lively foam . |
| 13 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 14 | Once she met the Queen she would not need fitzAlan 's protection . |
| 15 | Anyhow he went away and met the lady who became his wife in London , I believe , and they had a child . |
| 16 | Met the lady who lives at the top of our road who shared the vision on Sunday night . |
| 17 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 18 | Then when , a few months later , I met the man who was to become my husband , I was told in no uncertain terms that Helen — would n't you know it ? — did not approve . |
| 19 | And it was at the office … that she met the man who said … |
| 20 | Her next job was at Grampian Television in Aberdeen where she met the man who shaped her TV career . |
| 21 | The one major event which happened to me at Binbrook , and which was going to change my life , was that I met the man I was eventually to marry , although a lot of water would flow under the bridge before the wedding took place . |
| 22 | We next met the day he arrived in Normandy . |
| 23 | It was for Signora Kettering and her English upbringing told her that it was unthinkable to open letters addressed to someone else ; and yet as she came down the stairs and met the driver she had been taken , as she felt sure she was meant to be taken , for Signora Kettering . |
| 24 | As soon as Jaq met the Astropath he guessed that there was more awaiting . |
| 25 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 26 | When I met the mother she was extremely depressed verging on suicidal and was given by the workers at the clinic a new sari to try and cheer her up . |
| 27 | In 1974 he met the woman who was to become this third and last wife , Patricia Seaton . |
| 28 | In a few months , he discovered the sufferings of the world , found his calling as an artist , met the woman he was to marry , and became Werner Bischof , one of the finest photographers of his time . |
| 29 | The poem was not published until 1739 , when she met the expense herself . |
| 30 | A person whose reputation is criticised in the press is privileged to make honest , if defamatory , replies to those criticisms , and this privilege will shield the newspaper which publishes the defamatory response . |