Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’
3 At all stages , pupils learn about France and about French customs , and we encourage them to see their study of French as the key to real communication with real French people .
4 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 .
5 This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company .
6 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 .
7 I mean there might be millions of them for all we know , but we ca n't find them using our system of maths , cos ours does not allow division by zero .
8 So money can be found when the Government feel that it is necessary for them to sustain their vote throughout the country .
9 He made me expose my bottom to him and he whipped me .
10 We do n't want them to wear our clothes-styles and use our language and have our interests .
11 I spent the next few days talking to Cabinet colleagues — all of whom shared my view that the demand was preposterous — and then went to see the Prime Minister .
12 Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes .
13 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 .
14 One of them turns her tired beam on us .
15 I presume your next unhappy task will be to inform Madame Gebrec that you have found nothing to support her contention ? ’
16 ( Let me answer my own question .
17 The way she 'd always known it , when you decided to throw a party , you threw a party ; you pushed back the furniture , you got all the food together yourself , you invited close friends who knew each other and for a while you let them invade your most private and personal space .
18 And hear them explain their views :
19 I 'll recruit somebody to help me service my client bank , because it 's better to have fifty percent of something than fifty percent of nothing .
20 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 .
21 Before the war she had gone out with those fishers and watched them spear their quarry by torchlight in the early hours of the morning .
22 But it can stop them seeing its underlying gender biases .
23 Both men pulled on the cowl hoods to prevent them seeing their abductors .
24 And there is a door to the west , to allow them to continue their explorations .
25 It is all too easy for them to continue their lives as minor Party ‘ nomenclaturi ’ .
26 The Corpo di Truppe Volontarie ( CTV ) had taken part in the occupation of Malaga , on the south coast , in the first half of February , but Franco had refused to allow them to continue their advance eastwards , towards Valencia .
27 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 .
28 And that we actually op adopted a b a modern sensible er , reasonable attitude towards all living creatures and that we do today vote to ban fox hunting it is anachronistic as I said earlier , it is not necessary it actually causes harm , not only does it cause harm to foxes , but at least in one case , which is sufficient for me to continue my support for the ban damage to the people in my area .
29 More significantly , it counterpoised the acquisition of land by the church — ‘ whereby the services which are due from such fees [ i.e. freehold ] and which were provided from the beginning for the defence of the realm are unjustifiably withdrawn and chief lords in respect of them lose their escheats ’ — with the good of the realm , for which the present ban is imposed .
30 This loss of control is frightening and therapy has helped me to acknowledge its existence , although I still do n't know why it happens .
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