Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | More than any other sound , more even than the grunting roar of a lion , their howling evokes for me the African night . |
| 6 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 7 | So we 'd have to go through it the next day anyway . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think about what the first tackle is going to be like , unless of course it comes from Stuart Pearce ! |
| 9 | In 1987 , when Tony Heginbottom revived the tradition at Cragg Vale Spa near Hebden Bridge , I was there to taste for myself the chalybeate water . |
| 10 | in the Court of Appeal , ‘ in view of the historic struggle of the legislature to secure for itself the sole power to levy money upon the subject , its complete success in that struggle , the elaborate means adopted by the representative House to control the amount , the conditions and the purpose of the levy , the circumstances would be remarkable indeed which would induce the court to believe that the legislature had sacrificed all the well-known checks and precautions , and , not in express words , but merely by implication , had entrusted a Minister of the Crown with undefined and unlimited powers of imposing charges upon the subject for purposes connected with his department . ’ |
| 11 | Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought . |
| 12 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 13 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 14 | They had no need to worry about what the National Consumer Council called ‘ manageable commitment ’ , in which the customer operated a system of precisely monitored deferred payment , only ‘ overcommitment ’ and ‘ unmanageable commitment ’ . |
| 15 | Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day . |
| 16 | He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself . |
| 17 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 18 | He thought that to remain would look ‘ unsporting ’ and would count against him the next time . |
| 19 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 20 | In an ideal world the choice of harmonizing instrument would depend on what was most suitable for the particular project envisaged and carried with it the greatest prospect of successful implementation . |
| 21 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 22 | Branson 's fierce attack on ‘ predatory pricing ’ carried with it the implied threat of another anti-trust suit against British Airways in the American courts . |
| 23 | The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw 's introductory statement in which he spoke of ( a ) the need to ‘ remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets ’ , and ( b ) the urgency of developing ‘ policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends ’ ( Hansard , vol. 8 , 16 July 1981 : col. 1405 ) . |
| 24 | When you sort out your notes , Sergeant , you might include in them the additional information that my car was parked at the other end of Boundary Drive , the end furthest away from Glenfair Road , see ? |
| 25 | I do not recognise in what the hon. Member for Leicester , East said about my hon. Friend any vestige of truth . |
| 26 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 27 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 28 | … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 30 | Lissa thrust her belongings back into her jacket , bending her head to hide from him the secretive smile that touched her lips . |