Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't have to talk to them to see that . |
| 2 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 3 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 4 | We must train staff to teach as effectively as possible and should encourage them to see this as an important part of their job . |
| 5 | pressure of work on credit advises can tempt them to see this as a way of reducing the workload |
| 6 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 7 | Agents are notified of performances by the schools , and they also receive hundreds of letters from students inviting them to see particular performances . |
| 8 | There is a compensation scheme and the laibon wishes me to drive one of his sons fifty miles to a small town to collect the papers . |
| 9 | One obvious alternative to the hamburger is a sandwich — try chopped chicken or tuna on wholewheat ; ask them to go easy on the mayo . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Yet there is striking evidence that carts and wagons had been much improved , and that bridges were being built in many parts to make it possible for them to go longer distances . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A man sits in his car at the traffic-lights , waiting for them to go green . |
| 14 | That it might make them think other than we wish them to think ? |
| 15 | Was it because of the passion that the excuse me , these women seem to er , be pres having that made them think that er , it was n't er a male who wrote the book or not ? |
| 16 | See them using traditional skills on new forged ironwork as well as restoration work . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , since the database files were in dBASE format , it is possible to interrogated them using this software rather than Doctor Data if you choose . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 24 | Before anyone goes in and sits on the dentist 's chair which forms the centrepiece of the cage , Dr Tydeman will first monitor them using some external equipment . |
| 25 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 26 | Nor does it impress Freud to be told that religious propositions are ‘ as if ’ types of proposition , and that one should live ‘ as if ’ it were true that there were gods , or God , for there is nothing to lose this way . |
| 27 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
| 28 | Some have the full range of infrastructural provision enabling them to accommodate all but the heaviest industries , while others are capable of occupation only by light industry or warehouses . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Studies carried out in Hull , did nothing to confirm this prediction . |