Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government . |
| 2 | He declared that it provides time for the family to gather or the body to be transported home and it offers an opportunity for them to see the person in a state of peaceful repose . |
| 3 | It was difficult to get them to see the relevance of some of the questions . ’ |
| 4 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 5 | This leads them to see the organization as a well-defined unit and not as the heaving , changing mass with fluctuating boundaries that it really is . |
| 6 | Therefore , to whom belongs the credit for this near miraculous escape from falling victim yet again to socialist ideology and dogma , which is in decline and disrepute everywhere , except for a few Third World countries ? |
| 7 | This was done by asking them to report the position of a dot moving round an oscilloscope screen at the moment of the experience . |
| 8 | One of them involves the observation of events as they actually occur , and the other involves experimentation which causes events to take place . |
| 9 | Road transport pollution Congestion on the roads costs an estimated £15 billion a year , yet the Government continues to do nothing to curb the rate of growth of car use — estimated at 142% between 1990 and 2005 . |
| 10 | One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call . |
| 11 | Nothing forbids me to dramatize the crisis by saying that the individual has found a new sense of his dignity in the knowledge that he is wholly free to choose , with the sole responsibility for his choice . |
| 12 | Admittedly , Popper and Habermas may seem to be strange bedfellows ; for they have entered the lists against each other precisely over their views on knowledge and reason , both of them seeing the other as an unwitting ideologue . |
| 13 | ‘ Neither of them fits the picture of a proper mother . ’ |
| 14 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
| 15 | ‘ Peter Seabrook helped me build the pond on the programme , ’ he pointed out . |
| 16 | The size of modern language classes in ordinary primary and secondary schools is thought by the teachers in them to inhibit the development of effective teaching methods . |
| 17 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 18 | As it was then understood : here again , Cole 's problem is to reconcile a course seen by the Pioneers themselves as treasonable , with the fact that it foreshadowed the policy to be followed by successful Consumers ' Co-operation , that policy which for its purposes made co-operative production incidental and subordinate to it and which most certainly did nothing to promote the development of an industrial co-operative sector properly so-called . |
| 19 | The new business groups were part of an imperial market and often this was far too important to them to risk the fragmentation of nationalism . |
| 20 | So water for me represents the ordinariness of life which Jesus can take and make very special . |
| 21 | So , on my return home , I approached the French Federation and persuaded them to support the idea of a Student World Cup in France ’ , Bonfils recalled . |
| 22 | Such recordings would enable them to monitor the effectiveness of certain maintenance and operational procedures by means of automatic read-out and computerised analysis . |
| 23 | In practice , some States ( including the United Kingdom and the United States ) always return the documents through their Central Authorities because it enables them to monitor the implementation of the Convention . |
| 24 | Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans . |
| 25 | Everyone agrees the safety of 500 pupils is paramount . |
| 26 | IT IS normally gratifying enough for me to hit the ball in the air and in the general direction of the green . |
| 27 | The result was a flood of Maori claims , many of them demanding the return of large areas of land . |
| 28 | You can use several Pump Wagons together , or advance them with chariots or big monsters , but their random move means you ca n't rely on them to hit the enemy at the same time . |
| 29 | Ron and I thought that the best way to arrange this would be for me to interview the Prince about his uncle , and to tack the result on to the end of the obituary programme . |
| 30 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |