Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’ |
| 2 | It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’ |
| 3 | Other major applications under development include computer aided design systems which enable designers to actually enter 3-D models of their creations , to explore their functionality , aesthetics and to alter them using their computer-generated , virtual hands . |
| 4 | Some loved him , others hated him , but everyone respected what little they ever found out about this strange ‘ refusenik ’ who was part of no group or establishment , yet managed to affect so many people 's lives . |
| 5 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
| 6 | The growing Country opposition to William 's ministry in the Scottish Parliament consisted mainly of men who stood on a Revolution and Presbyterian foot , but whose exclusion from office exacerbated their disillusionment and allowed them to indulge their nationalist sentiments . |
| 7 | One of them turns her tired beam on us . |
| 8 | ( Let me answer my own question . |
| 9 | Dark gull-like seabirds , called Jaegers in North America , noted for their piratical methods of feeding , by pursuing other seabirds , especially gulls and terns , to make them disgorge their last catch . |
| 10 | But it can stop them seeing its underlying gender biases . |
| 11 | Some in the colony 's business community share that view since following it in policy terms would allow them to continue their prosperous trade links across the border . |
| 12 | BELVILLE : This happy estray thus restored begs leave by me to acknowledge its lovely owner ! |
| 13 | ‘ But you have to make them want it first . |
| 14 | So no-one got it right , pollsters , reporters or bookmakers . |
| 15 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 16 | First of all let me emphasize our common experience that most human relationships are asymmetrical . |
| 17 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 18 | And they should , as well , be able to get everyone to attend their own dentist so that as you 're registered with the doctors then you should with the dentist . |
| 19 | Let me make myself clear , Florence : at the first sign of trouble I am turning back . ’ |
| 20 | Let me make you some coffee . ’ |
| 21 | You 'd , you 'd expect me erm er with my finger on that pulse to have made that point to the directors , may be help me make it several times during our sort of discussions about er both this year 's budget and next year 's projections . |
| 22 | Let me make it clear . |
| 23 | Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively . |
| 24 | Let me make it clear that my borough is willing to help . |
| 25 | Just for once , let me make my own decision . |
| 26 | On Norfolk he remarked that there was not " any hand unemployed , if they would work ; and that the very children after four or five years of age , could everyone earn their own bread " . |
| 27 | Not so much because of the menace in his voice and manner , but because it caused me to lose what little respect I had for him . |
| 28 | Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach . |
| 29 | I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't you like me using your Islamic name ? ’ said Mrs Wilson . |