Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one knew how to go about it the Fall was reversible . |
| 2 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 3 | Even if she could be brought to view his actions in his own light , he would remain for her the instrument of death . |
| 4 | The extra resources available from the uprated grant and loan more than compensate for what the majority of students could have claimed . |
| 5 | ‘ If one thinks about it the President makes an ideal stalking horse . |
| 6 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 7 | Also , interestingly , Labour was trying to claim for itself the new Prospective owner-occupiers with a promise of low interest mortgages for low income earners . |
| 8 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 9 | I mean I 'm I mean for me the issues is avoiding guilt tripping them , but at the same time erm I want them to know erm that they are real children who are being really affected and hurt and damaged and losing their parents as a result of this war , and that is a hurtful thing to know . |
| 10 | A delegation from Europe 's largest hotel , the Izmailovo in Moscow , recently visited the Moat House International Hotel , Glasgow , to see for themselves the operating standards of a western hotel . |
| 11 | Winston sent out a party of men and women from public life to see for themselves the horrors of Belsen . |
| 12 | This has been configured so that visitors to the Museum can see in the cockpit and operate the flying controls to see for themselves the effects of stick on elevators and rudder . |
| 13 | LENTA organised parties of business people and senior ILEA personnel to see for themselves the achievements of the Boston Compact . |
| 14 | Still others are there to show their sympathy and respect , but also to see for themselves the spectacle of a city 's mass grief … |
| 15 | Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system . |
| 16 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 17 | We want you to see for yourself the subtlety and awareness that can be wrought from the earth , to give style and grace to your everyday living . |
| 18 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 19 | He will then be able to see for himself the resignation , if not quiet contempt , with which his customers regard the service for which he and his managers must hold themselves fully accountable . |
| 20 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 21 | Will my hon. Friend therefore give me an undertaking that he will visit Dartford early in the new year , or on Christmas day if need be , to see for himself the damage that has been done to our river and how much has been lost ? |
| 22 | They also demanded that President Guillermo Endara Gallimany , 56 , make a personal visit to the old part of the city to see for himself the severe level of poverty the population was being forced to endure . |
| 23 | The jury , sitting in court 4 at Bristol , were sent home early by Judge Overend , so that he could drive to the bridge to see for himself the spot at which the accident happened . |
| 24 | Each group needs to see for itself the importance of indirect and hard-to-define influences . |
| 25 | As the child 's mental processes become more complex , it becomes increasingly able to absorb and construct for itself the complexities of the external world . |
| 26 | We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 27 | More than any other sound , more even than the grunting roar of a lion , their howling evokes for me the African night . |
| 28 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 29 | When Liam managed to get a word with her alone , she said the less fuss they made about it the sooner Nellie would get over it . |
| 30 | Through the horse , we have emphasized for us the animalistic and instinctive nature of the male ( or human ? ) sexual appetite . |