Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want him to have the best possible educational start , and they see children elsewhere , like Emma , getting a whole year 's schooling more than Sam . |
| 2 | Seems they want you to address the European Commission on European industrial development . |
| 3 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 4 | finally they allow us to situate the different thresholds in their respective place : for nothing proves in advance … that their chronology is the same for all types of discourse … |
| 5 | They allow us to escape the vast and growing area of ambiguity — for that ‘ Japanese car ’ is assembled in the United States by Mexican and Korean workers , from parts made in twenty other countries , by a corporation whose parent is registered in Tokyo but owned by a consortium of companies registered in five other countries , and the general manager is a German . |
| 6 | Wish art goes on to emphasize the importance of the electric media in breaking the hegemony of notation , for they enable us to capture the actual sounds , in all their inflectional complexity — freed from the ‘ filtering ’ effects of notation — and in experiential rather than spatialized time . |