Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You would n't want me to let an old man get beaten up and do nothing . ’ |
| 2 | She is only encouraging them to use an instinctive faculty they already possess , to develop the already existent , mental and physical muscles . |
| 3 | Particular attention is given to the training , career development and promotion of disabled employees with a view to encouraging them to play an active role in the development of the group . |
| 4 | Probably most parents subscribe to this view , and while they may not deliberately choose particular methods of child care to bring about a specified long-term outcome , their belief in the association may well make them feel an added responsibility . |
| 5 | These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 6 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 7 | It was this that later led them to build an electrochemical cell . |
| 8 | I do n't want them to have an uneventful journey . |
| 9 | The aim is to enable them to lead an independent life . |
| 10 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 11 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 12 | I would agree that a hypnotist could not , for example , make me attack an innocent person . |
| 13 | PC-ometer We take the three ratings — CPU , DISK and VIDEO and combine them to get an overall performance mark . |
| 14 | I mean I know an awful lot of people outside Harlow who who come here but Harlow people could be said to be apathetic or not being marketed rightly . |
| 15 | However an X-ray at 38 weeks revealed I had an enormous pelvis so a relatively normal birth was on the cards . |
| 16 | It is quite common to find them taking an unusual interest in pets , putting on weight , complaining of backache and toothache , or being faddy about food — behaviour more usually associated with pregnant women . |
| 17 | And forgive me asking an indelicate question but how are you off for money — on the whole trip ? |
| 18 | And underneath the story started : Gallant young Dr Kit Masters , Oxford Boxing Blue , beat off a gang of three Blackshirts when he found them attacking an old man who ran a tailor 's shop . |
| 19 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he does any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer ; and ( b ) at the time when he does the act he has the requisite intent and the requisite knowledge . |
| 20 | The ultimate innovation is the production of a brand new product or process which revolutionises an existing market or creates a new one . |
| 21 | A disgruntled postman rang up a radio chat show to complain , and found himself spearheading an anti-Florio movement that culminated in 50,000 people marching on the state capitol . |
| 22 | At the age of 17 he found himself manning an anti-aircraft gun aboard the light cruiser , HMS Scylla . |
| 23 | By a desperately ironic twist of fate he found himself confronting an away match at Swindon at the height of the press exposure about his betting . |
| 24 | The dictatorial character of antiracism , particularly in local government , has itself become an important theme within the discourse of popular racism . |
| 25 | Germany found itself facing an expansionist Europe and a booming industry . |
| 26 | Sierra Leone 's 3,000-man army found itself facing an intensifying struggle throughout May against forces of the Liberian rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , despite denials of any involvement by the NPFL leader Charles Taylor [ see also above . |
| 27 | During the 1960s , under the leadership of Terence O'Neill , the Unionist Parliamentary Party found itself devoting an increasing amount of time to questions of economic and social reform . |
| 28 | The government soon found itself taking an ambivalent stance towards the waiguoren ( foreigners ) . |
| 29 | I found one carrying an old umbrella and another a length of old rope ! |
| 30 | A Redken stylist can analyse your hair and assess its condition suing Redken 's unique Trichoanalysis system , enabling her to prescribe an appropriate regimen of products to promote strength and condition . |