Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agents are notified of performances by the schools , and they also receive hundreds of letters from students inviting them to see particular performances . |
| 2 | The excitement , suspense , and danger which seems the lot of the police on celluloid feeds into the definitions many of Easton 's section police give to their work experience , and the supposed similarity of this experience leads them to see police films and television programmes as an accurate portrayal , to be watched avidly because of this shared world . |
| 3 | Even though the portrayal of police work on celluloid is not a realistic description of policing in Easton , the conceptualizations they have of their role as fighters of ‘ big crime ’ , which they have to be continually prepared for , encourages them to see the media portrayal of policing as accurate , thus completing the circle . |
| 4 | The patrols are expected to react to these , and an umpire accompanies them to see that there is fair play . |
| 5 | Many more ants would need to go up into space for them to see themselves in perspective . |
| 6 | We could point out further that the ancient Israelites had not yet developed any notion of supernatural evil forces in opposition to God , and that this also encouraged them to see his hand in dark and terrible events . |
| 7 | Smart army WAR in the 21st century will see soldiers in ‘ smart ’ helmets that allow them to see through clouds and over hills , according to a report from America 's National Research Council . |
| 8 | Then make sure you know which they are and check them to see they have not been removed or weakened . |
| 9 | They often do this by letting out or bringing in their mooring line , so keep an eye on them to see which direction they move it in , if at all . |
| 10 | Take them to see Santa in his Steam Train Grotto . |
| 11 | They bring respectability to industry in the eyes of young people and allow them to see that work can be rewarding , interesting and challenging . |
| 12 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 13 | Eisenbarth 's group has already identified two youngsters with the antibodies , and is monitoring them to see if their production of insulin starts to fall . |
| 14 | At the end there are sequences of free paddling , both at Nottingham and on natural water , allowing the viewers to see practical use of the moves and permitting them to see the film to examine the techniques , the paddling by the six paddlers involved always being very confident and competent . |
| 15 | Similarly , the energy at sites may interact with certain individuals to create altered states of consciousness , which enables them to see more easily the variety of legendary entities which traditionally inhabit such locations . |
| 16 | Go through them to see which might be relevant to your own situation . |
| 17 | I did n't want them to see me crying . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 20 | This helps them to see a 3-D object as a simpler , two-dimensional configuration of lines and shapes . |
| 21 | We allowed them to see us at our most absurd . |
| 22 | The sport itself and the money , shelter them from the kind of rough-and-ready exchange that brings ordinary people back from the brink of conflict and leads them to see their adversaries as people . |
| 23 | I would have loved to touch them to see what they felt like but I could see out of the corner of my eye that I was being watched . |
| 24 | ‘ It must be frightening for them to see Ryan on the bench . |
| 25 | So , surrounded with objects , photographs in books , cuttings from magazines etc , I studied them to see if there was anything which would be interesting translated into knitting . |
| 26 | Up to this point , the females have assiduously ignored the male , but soon he starts testing them to see if they are ready to mate . |
| 27 | Fact is , I do n't want them to see what 's going on in the next few hours . |
| 28 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 29 | Then , the mist dissipates to allow them to see what is below . |
| 30 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |