Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the war both groups have come to see him as an unnecessary evil . |
| 2 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 3 | We 've come to see you as a friendly warning . |
| 4 | They had come to expect nothing from a disenfranchised people except violence and anarchy . |
| 5 | Other Lancashire businessmen watching his progress had come to respect him as a red-hot entrepreneur and ruthless opponent in business dealings , for whom profit was the consideration that overrode every other . |
| 6 | It is a difficult process , since it has to be directed against one 's mental processes , which are designed to protect us from an alien world . |
| 7 | ‘ I would not have expected to accompany you on a romantic walk with your girlfriend , ’ Jenna said hotly , her cheeks flushing at this idea of being relegated to invalidity again . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the discipline itself , especially in the United States , has resolved to regard him as a leading advocate of scientific method and by subscribing to this interpretation we have at least avoided causing confusion . |
| 9 | When this opening was created between two rooms , elegant display shelving , storage cupboards and stylish Victorian lace curtains were added to make it into an attractive feature |
| 10 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 11 | Consciousness deteriorated and , since the pain ‘ could no longer be relieved ’ , it was decided to kill her with a large dose of opioids . |
| 12 | Scorton does have a playing field , but this is administered by the Parish Council and no application has been made to use it for a finishing point . |
| 13 | Well our company decided to send us for a fucking first aid course and this , it 's er most embarrassing on this particular night we 'd stopped in er in the Chapel Hill in Lisburn |
| 14 | It is merely that the choice is made to run it as a self-contained entity and the appropriate structure thus created for it . |
| 15 | However , as the torchlight danced ahead she gradually lost the worst of the fears that had at first threatened to turn her into a quivering jelly . |
| 16 | In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force . |
| 17 | Over the years she had grown to love him in a familiar , comfortable sort of way , though of late a change in temperament had made him difficult . |
| 18 | Interpretation of the restoration has broader implications for understanding Japanese history as a whole , particularly for the many Japanese historians who have sought to locate it within a Marxist historical framework . |
| 19 | Isaacs named the substance interferon , and for some years vigorous efforts were made to develop it into a practical therapeutic agent . |
| 20 | By April of 1824 he had failed to abate the nuisance , and it was decided to present him with a formal notice to desist . |
| 21 | However much the family sat and planned and prepared to scold him after a frightening bender , he would soon have them all melted with his gypsy stories . |
| 22 | Everything in a given society is made to explain its racism , and this racism , in turn , is made to explain everything about a particular ethnic minority within it . |
| 23 | In spite of our scepticism , to our relief the first boat in that area to be investigated proved to match the photograph and we slunk off into the night , doused our lights , and prepared to follow her at a safe distance . |
| 24 | But you 've got to treat it as a special case |
| 25 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |
| 26 | The words and melodies of the hymns used during the day all helped to put me in a receptive mood . |
| 27 | She had thought to do it in a civilised fashion , not confront him with her knowledge of what he had written about her , but he was persistent ; he could see his prize and her dollars slipping away . |
| 28 | And believe it or not we 've got to put him on a high chair to enable him to manage his instrument . ’ |
| 29 | He told the jury yesterday that he had never threatened her with his truncheon , but he had offered to use it as a sexual aid . |
| 30 | He used a setup rather like a modern TV picture tube : a red-hot metal filament gave off the electrons , and because these have a negative electric charge , an electric field could be used to accelerate them toward a phosphor-coated screen . |