Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] they [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 2 | The courses are aimed at senior management and are intended to provide them with the knowledge and skills to exploit AIT effectively in their business . |
| 3 | After completing the AEC , participants were interviewed to provide them with an opportunity to reflect and comment on the course . |
| 4 | How could the working class make effective use of the political power which the vote was expected to give them without the opportunity to engage in an open discussion of political principle and perspectives ? |
| 5 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 6 | If students in the 1990s have difficulty in distinguishing all the political parties and coalitions that sprang up in Petrograd after the February Revolution , how could a peasant in 1917 be expected to assimilate them in the place of the Tsar , who at least represented a more easily understood form of political authority ? |
| 7 | With agitated fingers , his father felt in his shirt pocket for a cigarette , but he had forgotten to bring them from the kitchen . |
| 8 | On that Sunday evening Lady Eleanor was instructed to meet them outside the Galilee Gate . |
| 9 | The biggest breakthrough in the farm came with the arrival on the scene of a small grey tractor called a Fergie and it seemed as though almost everybody had at least one and it became the jack of all trades on the farm and implements which had previously been pulled by horses had their shafts removed and couplings were made to fit them behind the tractor . |
| 10 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 11 | Vital economic issues like infrastructure , employment , tourism , and retailing are also covered , but an attempt is made to address them within the context of sustainability . |
| 12 | They say they have obtained my name and address from an agency : clearly they have decided to market them in the North-East in a big way . ’ |
| 13 | These contributions are not shown in official statistics of educational expenditure , but in 1990 an attempt was made to quantify them by the Mail on Sunday , which commissioned a survey of a representative sample of primary schools by the National Foundation for Educational Research . |
| 14 | ‘ Soliciting … she was known to have men at her house and was seen to stop them in the street . |
| 15 | Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head . |
| 16 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
| 17 | and they 've got to sell them on the waiting list |
| 18 | If the products are high quality , customers who have been persuaded to buy them by the advertising campaign will continue to buy , and the increase in sales will be long-lasting . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got to leave them in a taxi-cab in Inkeroinen . ’ |
| 20 | We hypothesized that heads would have tended to draw them to the attention of their more senior colleagues in the first instance and that the booklets might not subsequently have been passed on to the ‘ rank and file ’ . |
| 21 | You 've got to put them in the order so you can see him , but the other person ca n't |
| 22 | Table 3.3 shows some alternative orderings for a word list of 2461 words , together with the number of edges needed to represent them in a dawg structure . |
| 23 | Literary representation enters a complex negotiation with history , a debate about ‘ things ’ ( institutions , actions , events ) and the words used to name them with an awareness that both the names and the things may be otherwise . |
| 24 | They can find their way into waterways by a number of routes — mainly via those sewage systems which are not equipped to remove them in the treatment process . |
| 25 | Stick foods are greatly loved by Koi and can be used to bring them to the surface |
| 26 | Chalk and Fowler had agreed to introduce them to a lawyer in a Holborn tavern . |
| 27 | For reasons linked to the physical strength needed to operate them at the beginning , spinning mules were operated by men . |
| 28 | He had intended to leave them at the station , but the Left Luggage Office , he had just been reminded , closed at 9.30 . |
| 29 | ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … . |
| 30 | You are invited to contact them via the Reader Service Card , and if you contact them by other means it would be greatly appreciated if you would mention that you read them in CHEMISTRY IN BRITAIN . |