Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government . |
| 2 | He declared that it provides time for the family to gather or the body to be transported home and it offers an opportunity for them to see the person in a state of peaceful repose . |
| 3 | It was difficult to get them to see the relevance of some of the questions . ’ |
| 4 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 5 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 6 | At the end there are sequences of free paddling , both at Nottingham and on natural water , allowing the viewers to see practical use of the moves and permitting them to see the film to examine the techniques , the paddling by the six paddlers involved always being very confident and competent . |
| 7 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 8 | This leads them to see the organization as a well-defined unit and not as the heaving , changing mass with fluctuating boundaries that it really is . |
| 9 | She wants them to see the killer caught and tried . |
| 10 | She wants them to see the killer caught and tried . |
| 11 | When we came to Préfleur I asked Jean-Claude if he would teach me to drive the motor cycle . |
| 12 | Well I know with two ladies th their daughters wanted to , them to go the house and they would n't . |
| 13 | The county council has since planted trees on that piece of land which has stopped gipsies from camping there but led to them using the verge instead . |
| 14 | However , in Lego U.K. Ltd. v Lego M. Lemelstrich Ltd. [ 1983 ] , the Lego company , which makes children 's construction kits comprising coloured plastic bricks , was granted an injunction against the manufacturers of coloured plastic irrigation material preventing them using the name " Lego " as part of the description of the material . |
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| 17 | Therefore , to whom belongs the credit for this near miraculous escape from falling victim yet again to socialist ideology and dogma , which is in decline and disrepute everywhere , except for a few Third World countries ? |
| 18 | This was done by asking them to report the position of a dot moving round an oscilloscope screen at the moment of the experience . |
| 19 | She had forgotten to call them to report the accident . |
| 20 | One of them involves the observation of events as they actually occur , and the other involves experimentation which causes events to take place . |
| 21 | Er that help is , there are fewer to draw from , i it 's also far more difficult for them to spare the time , the pressures on the academics are considerable nowadays . |
| 22 | Road transport pollution Congestion on the roads costs an estimated £15 billion a year , yet the Government continues to do nothing to curb the rate of growth of car use — estimated at 142% between 1990 and 2005 . |
| 23 | The reason , one supposes , for their usefulness in the wind band rather than the orchestra is no doubt the weight and solidity of tone which overcomes in the former combination any disadvantages which might be caused by the highly individual tone-colour of the saxophones , and thus enables them to enrich the texture and , by their vitality , to add the gaiety and fun which are such marked features of their character , as well as a brand of melancholy particularly to be associated with the alto instrument , hence its occasional use for solo work . |
| 24 | One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call . |
| 25 | Nothing forbids me to dramatize the crisis by saying that the individual has found a new sense of his dignity in the knowledge that he is wholly free to choose , with the sole responsibility for his choice . |
| 26 | In front of them rode the moon , silver-skirted , in a flurry of dark-blue clouds . |
| 27 | Such poorly presented results do nothing to support the credibility ( and hence the funding ! ) of an interesting field which deserves more critical attention . |
| 28 | But there is nothing to support the theory that the crew made up the story , and no apparent motive for them to do so . |
| 29 | Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in Leicester , the midlands and elsewhere in the past 13 years , yet the Government have done nothing to support the industry . |
| 30 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |