Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patrols are expected to react to these , and an umpire accompanies them to see that there is fair play . |
| 2 | They bring respectability to industry in the eyes of young people and allow them to see that work can be rewarding , interesting and challenging . |
| 3 | Their emphasis on the absolute centrality of heterosexual experience made it impossible for them to see that purity feminism had anything to offer , with its emphasis on celibacy , and its view of sex as male-defined , vicious and depraved . |
| 4 | The objectives give us a way of er measuring at the end of the course whether the course has achieved for you what you wanted from we 'll come back as I said to those this afternoon and and just review them to see that you got out of the course what you . |
| 5 | She wiped enough blood away for them to see that it was a clean cut , the edges easy for Miguel 's skilful fingers to pull together . |
| 6 | I mean that sort of yo er yo er , although , really you want them to see that cos they know what it 's about then , then they 'll read that , but , it would have been nice if that had of been darker |
| 7 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 8 | Since international trade law is largely dispositive and is designed primarily to facilitate international transactions between business enterprises it is only sensible to try out proposals on those who will be affected by them to see whether they will really work . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The federal government used them to see if America was keeping up with its competitors . |
| 13 | We examined these magazines for shells , we examined them to see if they were perfect . |
| 14 | Jannie gazed into the food cupboard , picking up cereal packets and shaking them to see if they needed replacing . |
| 15 | And so Edward Heath was sent round in January 1644 , all the houses in St Aldate 's to find out how many people were in them to see if there was any more room . |
| 16 | The man jumped in and shouted at me to drive but I refused . |
| 17 | Accessibility is not so important with the small , closed conferences because the participants are usually either highly motivated in the first place ( because of specialist interest or commitment ) or their employers require them to go or at least agree that they should . |
| 18 | I tell them to go and fuck themselves . |
| 19 | She was stuck there with the bags , she could n't leave them to go and pick the child up . |
| 20 | ‘ I told them to go and camp on Rickling Heath , which is public land , if they must stay . |
| 21 | The alarm will trigger in a central control point and the people there will either ring a neighbour to ask them to go and see what the problem is , or immediately ring the emergency services . |
| 22 | People come here looking for a Rottweiler as a guard dog — I tell them to go and buy a burglar alarm . |
| 23 | In the second account , Jesus told them to go and show themselves to the priests , and while they were on their way they discovered they were cured . |
| 24 | Another good homework task for some clients is to encourage them to go and try deliberately to provoke and control a panic attack . |
| 25 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
| 26 | It 's always tell them to go and |
| 27 | Because it 's their own fault for going to , nobody told them to go and do it , did they ? |
| 28 | And erm Joseph and Mary they went to Egypt or somewhere , yeah Egypt , and when they went erm and I think the angels called them to go cos they came to Egypt as well and then they went to . |
| 29 | He occasionally drops a phrase to provoke a smile from the soft cheeks of ladies and gentlemen , and to make them think that they could say the thing better … |
| 30 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |