Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 2 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 3 | Agents are notified of performances by the schools , and they also receive hundreds of letters from students inviting them to see particular performances . |
| 4 | One obvious alternative to the hamburger is a sandwich — try chopped chicken or tuna on wholewheat ; ask them to go easy on the mayo . |
| 5 | In a country where most of us are taught to paddle on flat water , should we insist on putting novices into white water boats which are specifically designed to veer off course and then spend millions of man hours teaching them to go straight or should we put novices into boats designed to go in straight lines ? |
| 6 | Squigs are unpredictable and in many way the best thing that can happen is for them to go wild once they are near the enemy . |
| 7 | A man sits in his car at the traffic-lights , waiting for them to go green . |
| 8 | That it might make them think other than we wish them to think ? |
| 9 | See them using traditional skills on new forged ironwork as well as restoration work . |
| 10 | Though typically economists look at the way in which human beings create and distribute goods and services , often with an eye on issues to do with efficiency according to some rational criteria , this does not prevent them using economic theories to examine , for example , educational provision , the supply of blood donors , voting choice , to name but a few . |
| 11 | Lucas 's study used data from 18 countries , and the regression equation ( 6.5 ) was estimated for each of them using annual data over the period 1952–67 . |
| 12 | Experiment with other ideas of your own invention , and play them using various different scale types in as many keys and in as many different musical situations as possible . |
| 13 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 14 | The purpose of this project is to develop appropriate statistical procedures , to test them using psychological data and to make available techniques for use by social scientists . |
| 15 | They can also use them to accommodate overseas staff home on leave , or to entertain business associates , or even as retirement gifts for long service staff . |
| 16 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 17 | After the second assessment , social workers were asked whether participation in the research had encouraged them to include other people more fully in decision-making . |
| 18 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 19 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 20 | It is always dangerously easy to write superficially about human relationships , particularly this one of the mother and daughter living together in old age , picturing them enjoying endless winter evenings by the fire , with never a cross word , and long summer afternoons in a garden of roses , sitting in deckchairs on a lawn that never needs mowing . |
| 21 | The remaining basement space was devoted to poster printing machines , and the furnace at the back , where the asbestos cards , each in the form of a page , were placed in moulds for molten lead to flow around them producing curved plates , one for each page . |
| 22 | Encrusting types spread onto the substrate , and it 's interesting to watch them producing root-like processes which then grip the rock or sand beneath . |
| 23 | There is a revolution taking place today in the way that executives are obtaining information to help them make critical business decisions . |
| 24 | While recognising that recent trends in health education are encouraging a move away from a purely topics-based programme , pupils need to have access to reliable information on a wide range of aspects of health to help them make informed judgements about healthy practices . |
| 25 | Drinkwise 1993 is designed to provide the public with information about alcohol to help them make informed choices about drinking . |
| 26 | Most of them became good Americans . |
| 27 | Through the 1920s , a clear gap opened up between Barth and Brunner on the one hand , and Bultmann and Gogarten on the other , though it was only to be later that the full significance of the divergence between them became apparent . |
| 28 | The reason for Dizzy 's locking of the door behind them became apparent within a minute , when Alina heard a hesitant tap on the other side followed by a young woman 's voice calling Dizzy 's name . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , the Heisenberg programme , designed to keep the best researchers within the university system until jobs for them became vacant , has not received enough applicants . |
| 30 | Over the weeks , one of them became morose . |