Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government . |
| 2 | He declared that it provides time for the family to gather or the body to be transported home and it offers an opportunity for them to see the person in a state of peaceful repose . |
| 3 | It was difficult to get them to see the relevance of some of the questions . ’ |
| 4 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 5 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 6 | At the end there are sequences of free paddling , both at Nottingham and on natural water , allowing the viewers to see practical use of the moves and permitting them to see the film to examine the techniques , the paddling by the six paddlers involved always being very confident and competent . |
| 7 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 8 | This leads them to see the organization as a well-defined unit and not as the heaving , changing mass with fluctuating boundaries that it really is . |
| 9 | Even though the portrayal of police work on celluloid is not a realistic description of policing in Easton , the conceptualizations they have of their role as fighters of ‘ big crime ’ , which they have to be continually prepared for , encourages them to see the media portrayal of policing as accurate , thus completing the circle . |
| 10 | She wants them to see the killer caught and tried . |
| 11 | She wants them to see the killer caught and tried . |
| 12 | When we came to Préfleur I asked Jean-Claude if he would teach me to drive the motor cycle . |
| 13 | Well I know with two ladies th their daughters wanted to , them to go the house and they would n't . |
| 14 | This was done by asking them to report the position of a dot moving round an oscilloscope screen at the moment of the experience . |
| 15 | She had forgotten to call them to report the accident . |
| 16 | Er that help is , there are fewer to draw from , i it 's also far more difficult for them to spare the time , the pressures on the academics are considerable nowadays . |
| 17 | The reason , one supposes , for their usefulness in the wind band rather than the orchestra is no doubt the weight and solidity of tone which overcomes in the former combination any disadvantages which might be caused by the highly individual tone-colour of the saxophones , and thus enables them to enrich the texture and , by their vitality , to add the gaiety and fun which are such marked features of their character , as well as a brand of melancholy particularly to be associated with the alto instrument , hence its occasional use for solo work . |
| 18 | One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call . |
| 19 | Nothing forbids me to dramatize the crisis by saying that the individual has found a new sense of his dignity in the knowledge that he is wholly free to choose , with the sole responsibility for his choice . |
| 20 | The pension was a voluntary gratuitous payment ant the words ’ except in the wool trade ’ were merely an intimation to Mr Wyatt that if he did enter the wool trade he must not expect them to continue the pension . |
| 21 | The size of modern language classes in ordinary primary and secondary schools is thought by the teachers in them to inhibit the development of effective teaching methods . |
| 22 | ‘ They are saying to the council that they 've got to listen to how their employees and the public feel , and not to impose the cuts of central government on their workers and expect them to carry the consequences . ’ |
| 23 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 24 | The new business groups were part of an imperial market and often this was far too important to them to risk the fragmentation of nationalism . |
| 25 | But after receiving a 129-signature petition , councillors accused the critics of being shortsighted , calling on them to support the development . |
| 26 | In Spain the struggle over the succession in 1702–13 had seen a prolonged effort by Catalonia and much of Aragon to throw off Castilian rule , an effort which drove them to support the Habsburg Archduke Charles against the eventually victorious Bourbon claimant to the throne , Philip V , grandson of Louis XIV . |
| 27 | So , on my return home , I approached the French Federation and persuaded them to support the idea of a Student World Cup in France ’ , Bonfils recalled . |
| 28 | It would now be an act of political madness further to raise them to support the pound ( as indeed it would be to sacrifice more of our reserves to the same purpose ) . |
| 29 | I visited a one-man research station of the Cyprus Department of Agriculture who invited me to taste the products of many combinations of variety and soil . |
| 30 | Mummy wants me to carry the tray in . |