Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I like to imbibe history from books , at my own pace , in elegant surroundings , preferably with a background of Mozart 's Flute and Harp Concerto . ’ |
| 2 | As a child I had watched history being made . |
| 3 | Nonetheless it is important that you learn to break history books down into their original skeletal form . |
| 4 | So what do we do to prevent history repeating itself ? |
| 5 | Or , it might be added if we wish to consider history rather than geography , medieval Europeans represented women as sexually insatiable , while the Victorians represented them as naturally frigid , engaging in sex only as a marital duty . |
| 6 | We have made history . |
| 7 | That 's one of the important reasons why we need to study history . |
| 8 | I mean why do people have to kind of , if , if , if we accept for a minute that there 's something in this analogy , this model that Freud is talking about , why do people have this compulsive need to repeat like this , why do they have to repeat history ? |
| 9 | I try and make women 's history clearer , because obviously they 've done history A level so they 've probably learnt about wars and all the male sort of things , so what women were doing and thinking and the way in which that has been suppressed ; as much as possible I like to teach by not putting very much of what I think across but trying to get other people to produce it … also encouraging them to share as an experience and personal responses and talking about things one would n't normally talk about in the department , the emotional side of things , in quotes ‘ irrational ’ , ‘ intuitive ’ and all of that , and valuing that … try and make it a space where people can say whatever they want to say ; I suppose value things that would not be valued elsewhere . |
| 10 | Since the Greeks looked back on the Mycenaean past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ of gods and heroes , they tended to regard history as a decline from this ideal state and not as an ultimate order of reality . |
| 11 | The diversity of skills it develops makes history graduates particularly attractive to employers who seek flexibility of mind rather than specialised expertise in a single discipline . |
| 12 | ‘ Never has homo faber better understood that he has made history and never has he felt so powerless before history ’ . |
| 13 | The reproach that poststructuralism has neglected history really consists of the complaint that it has questioned History . |
| 14 | Kevin tried a few years ago and failed this time … he aims to make history … and if he does we 'll be there … |
| 15 | The first sailing from the port after midnight on the New Year was taken as the official start of the Single Market ; the first piece of freight on board was actually an unidentified light van and trailer — the driver no doubt blissfully unaware that he had made history — which , along with several vehicles turning round from the inbound convoy , sneaked back on board the 01.00 return sailing of the Pride of Kent while the official welcoming party was still in progress at the other end of the port . |
| 16 | ‘ God fulfils himself in many ways ’ — because he does take history seriously . |