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Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Helping residents or reminding them to go to and from the toilets is a daily part of your duties .
2	The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise .
3	Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique .
4	Mind you I 've heard them shouting at him .
5	Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) .
6	I 've heard them talking about you . ’
7	‘ You 've never heard me complain about Annette 's cooking . ’
8	He had heard me talking to the Princess .
9	Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean .
10	But we all went swimming on Tuesday nights at Hamilton baths , and I did better than some because my father had taught me to swim on holiday .
11	Another result is that firms make ‘ supernormal ’ profits ( profits in excess of those necessary to induce them to remain in the industry ) at consumers ' expense .
12	Of course , the fossil hunters will lose all the bones that will erode from the hillsides with no one to see them re-emerge into daylight .
13	Of course , the fossil hunters will lose all the bones that will erode from the hillsides with no one to see them re-emerge into daylight .
14	Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions .
15	With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time .
16	It 's great to see them perform in those kinds of circumstances .
17	I 'd love to see them manage on it for a year
18	T was nice to see them draw against Portsmouth last night — strangely enough todays Scun fails to cover the game at all , I wonder why ? ? ?
19	We 'd like to see them remain as houses .
20	Because you like to see them gasp in amazement .
21	Yet it was sad in a way to see them venturing into it , so carelessly losing innocence .
22	Though I agreed with their political views , I could not condone the way they acted and was glad to see them go at last .
23	We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels .
24	Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices .
25	Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets .
26	I would nt be at all suprised to see them play in the ‘ theatre of dreams ’ .
27	‘ Impressionable teenagers use the Arts Centre all the time and I do n't want to see them confronted by this sort of filth .
28	After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature .
29	On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss .
30	‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England .