Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many more ants would need to go up into space for them to see themselves in perspective . |
| 2 | Sex education in schools may therefore have most impact if it aims to discourage helpless attitudes , by emphasising to young people that they are in control of their own lives , encouraging them to see themselves as active rather than passive , and in discussing what they might do in the event of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Go through them to see which might be relevant to your own situation . |
| 5 | He was watching them to see which way they would go . |
| 6 | Then make sure you know which they are and check them to see they have not been removed or weakened . |
| 7 | Sally-Anne closed her eyes , opened them to see him lift his hands to cover his face , his head bent , shoulders bowed , his world in ruins about him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fact is , I do n't want them to see what 's going on in the next few hours . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then , the mist dissipates to allow them to see what is below . |
| 12 | I tried to explain earlier about not being able to relax with people I liked , not being able to get them to see what virtues I had . |
| 13 | At the same time she watched them to see what they did . |
| 14 | That at the very least gives me the opportunity er to at very least glance through , I do n't know how long they 're going to be of course , but at very least glance through them to see what I need to see , to see if there 's any which is self-evidently requiring further comment , or further site visit , and er I can then give the Councils a further two weeks in which to respond to that . |
| 15 | I have seen enough to believe that the materials , over time , will prove to be of real help to teachers trying to solve their own problems by enabling them to see what support there is in the sharing of difficulties and by strengthening the belief that efficient discussion can lead to effective action . |
| 16 | Help them to see what they 're made of . |
| 17 | I did n't want them to see me crying . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 20 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He could n't take home business associates for dinner because he was embarrassed for them to see you . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 28 | The maintenance of such records in departments was traditionally seen as enabling them to see who did what , when , where and why , and what were the effects of these actions . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | The sentimentality conveyed by the careful selection of only " nice " aspects of religion to present to pupils causes them to see it — and perhaps believe in it — as just a fairy story unrelated to the real world . |