Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised Madeleine last night I 'd go with them to see Dunbar playing polo . |
| 2 | Take them to see Santa in his Steam Train Grotto . |
| 3 | Francisco drove them to see Rosie next day . |
| 4 | The portable screens are designed to fit round the witness box when needed to block the child 's view of the defendant but allow them to see magistrates and lawyers in the case . |
| 5 | Our parents would n't believe a word we said , so we took them to see Flupper . |
| 6 | ‘ It must be frightening for them to see Ryan on the bench . |
| 7 | And you may find that instead of making antiracism the rational choice for trade union officials and other bureaucrats , you are encouraging them to see immigration as dysfunctional , rather than racism ! |
| 8 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 9 | They also saw the Catholic padre attached to the station and he took them to see Whitey 's grave . |
| 10 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |
| 11 | The excitement , suspense , and danger which seems the lot of the police on celluloid feeds into the definitions many of Easton 's section police give to their work experience , and the supposed similarity of this experience leads them to see police films and television programmes as an accurate portrayal , to be watched avidly because of this shared world . |
| 12 | It is hoped that this will make people feel safer and encourage them to report crimes . |
| 13 | Ideas include allowing them to issue shares up to 49% of capital , to turn non-voting certificuts d'investissement into full shares , to sell subsidiaries or create cross-holdings with non-French European companies . |
| 14 | When he sent out his disciples he instructed them to preach Dhamma , the Truth , the Norm . |
| 15 | The beautiful and promiscuous Muslim women of the Maldives , for example , he thought shockingly immodest , and though Battuta frequently ‘ ordered them to wear clothes … |
| 16 | A couple of hundred years ago two Jesuit missionaries trying to find their way back to the Orinoco stumble across them , get them to build a raft and then pole the two Godmen several hundred miles south while the said Godmen preach them the Gospel and try to get them to wear Levis . |
| 17 | Okay , so what they did was they looked at what would be an attractive reinforcer in their work force erm , if if they were to persuade them to wear ear defenders , and they found out , from doing research in the work force , that consumer durables would be appropriate . |
| 18 | If a development economist can understand why people plant so much maize , or why they plant on 30 June , his work of persuading them to plant cotton , or to plant earlier or later should be more successful , if not simpler . |
| 19 | They concluded that God was calling them to plant churches . |
| 20 | They also authorised FERL to approach the former East German authorities of Thüringen , now one of the new ‘ Länder ’ ( regions ) in Germany , to ask them to include provision for community radios in their legislation . |
| 21 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 22 | The company says its four other Magnox stations , which have similar steel pressure vessels , are not threatened by the same defect and the NII has allowed them to continue operations . |
| 23 | and to permit them to carry bows and arrows for the defence of themselves and their custody , as is the custom of the King 's foresters , and the foresters of others elsewhere in England . |
| 24 | The hostel even had its own fleet of camels on its regular Hillaby-style treks , used them to carry supplies or provide a mount for weary walkers . |
| 25 | Within a few years of transfer to the South Metropolitan system , all these cars had the headlamps moved from the canopy front to the usual position on the dash , one reason being that it enabled them to carry advertisements in the same positions as the rest of the fleet . |
| 26 | Integrity expands and deepens the role individual citizens can play in developing the public standards of their community because it requires them to treat relations among themselves as characteristically , not just spasmodically , governed by these standards . |
| 27 | He will demand that the Syrians stop arming the rebels and allowing them to penetrate Turkey across their border , and is also expected to ask them to hand over Damascus-based Mr Abdullah Ocalan , leader of the Marxist PKK . |
| 28 | The time I spent alone with her … those hours allowed me to gather strength to go on with my deception . |
| 29 | At that moment , the determination came to me to kill Victor Frankenstein as well as his creature . |
| 30 | ‘ You want me to kill Vasco 's brother ? ’ |