Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 4 | Agents are notified of performances by the schools , and they also receive hundreds of letters from students inviting them to see particular performances . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They can also use them to accommodate overseas staff home on leave , or to entertain business associates , or even as retirement gifts for long service staff . |
| 9 | Do you want me to sew this back on for you babe ? |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After the second assessment , social workers were asked whether participation in the research had encouraged them to include other people more fully in decision-making . |
| 13 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 14 | It is a wise precaution for them to carry conventional insulins and have a regimen organised should they be troubled by pump failure . |
| 15 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 16 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 17 | There were an awful lot of tedious hours for me to kill that evening . |
| 18 | Delegates are regarded as mandated by those who elect them to support specific policies and to return to explain their subsequent decisions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ You can come and help me to carry some pictures , George dear , ’ she said to young Curdle , who was skipping about the playground . |
| 22 | This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace . |
| 23 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
| 24 | Why I 've been , it will be ten months that 's all Rita , ten month it took me to lose six stone , you do n't want to lose that much do you ? |
| 25 | ‘ Clever of me to acquire such information , do n't you agree ? ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Nerina 's always on at me to wear western clothes , ’ confided Mrs Khalid , ‘ but I like to be comfortable . |
| 28 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 29 | Granted to LIFESPAN users to enable them to perform various functions . |
| 30 | Reuter says that with the help of General Media International Inc , the Penthouse magazine empire has just launched a dial-up service in the US where for a monthly fee plus usage , lechers can view their favourite Pets from their personal computer , ask them to perform various acts — and play photographer , taking shots with the mouse while the model performs … |