Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 2 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 3 | Agents are notified of performances by the schools , and they also receive hundreds of letters from students inviting them to see particular performances . |
| 4 | Yet there is striking evidence that carts and wagons had been much improved , and that bridges were being built in many parts to make it possible for them to go longer distances . |
| 5 | See them using traditional skills on new forged ironwork as well as restoration work . |
| 6 | Though typically economists look at the way in which human beings create and distribute goods and services , often with an eye on issues to do with efficiency according to some rational criteria , this does not prevent them using economic theories to examine , for example , educational provision , the supply of blood donors , voting choice , to name but a few . |
| 7 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 8 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 9 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
| 10 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 11 | Do n't go into the , this morning when she was doing activity she said ah , she said I I 've got them to spot ten similarities , ten differences , great ! |
| 12 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 13 | The remaining basement space was devoted to poster printing machines , and the furnace at the back , where the asbestos cards , each in the form of a page , were placed in moulds for molten lead to flow around them producing curved plates , one for each page . |
| 14 | Encrusting types spread onto the substrate , and it 's interesting to watch them producing root-like processes which then grip the rock or sand beneath . |
| 15 | Top management is clearly very important to the organisation , and managers are realising that management information systems can help them make better decisions . |
| 16 | Drinkwise 1993 is designed to provide the public with information about alcohol to help them make informed choices about drinking . |
| 17 | While recognising that recent trends in health education are encouraging a move away from a purely topics-based programme , pupils need to have access to reliable information on a wide range of aspects of health to help them make informed judgements about healthy practices . |
| 18 | Most of them became good Americans . |
| 19 | It is a wise precaution for them to carry conventional insulins and have a regimen organised should they be troubled by pump failure . |
| 20 | Watching me wind two strands together on the cone winder he exclaimed ‘ Ah , now I know what ‘ k 2 tog ’ means ! ’ |
| 21 | Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me . |
| 22 | Delegates are regarded as mandated by those who elect them to support specific policies and to return to explain their subsequent decisions . |
| 23 | Peasant enclosures , however , were not so likely to do this as those by greater men , whose lands were sufficiently extensive for them to support large flocks and who would therefore have found such a conversion of land usage economically worth while . |
| 24 | Erm , I do n't know how , what we can do , I , I would suggest that we er , the Council writes to the President of the Board of Trade , making representations in support of the original boundaries of the bid , and , and also writes to our M Ps , whose constituencies are involved in this bid area , asking them to support these representations , er , er , and do the best we can to make sure that the , the five B area is as we submitted it . |
| 25 | ‘ You can come and help me to carry some pictures , George dear , ’ she said to young Curdle , who was skipping about the playground . |
| 26 | If you do n't already have them introduce living plants . |
| 27 | There are over SmartIcons and some of them introduce new facilities . |
| 28 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
| 29 | As late as the eighteenth century some of the most renowned painters of France , Boucher , Lancret and Watteau among them , found it no more beneath them to paint gallant scenes on the artificial eggs presented by the king to members of his court at Easter than Cellini did to be called on to unpick the precious stones from Clement VII 's tiara as the Imperial troops advanced to sack Rome in 1527 . |
| 30 | ‘ Nerina 's always on at me to wear western clothes , ’ confided Mrs Khalid , ‘ but I like to be comfortable . |