Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one knew how to go about it the Fall was reversible . |
| 2 | Even if she could be brought to view his actions in his own light , he would remain for her the instrument of death . |
| 3 | The extra resources available from the uprated grant and loan more than compensate for what the majority of students could have claimed . |
| 4 | ‘ If one thinks about it the President makes an ideal stalking horse . |
| 5 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 6 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 7 | Still others are there to show their sympathy and respect , but also to see for themselves the spectacle of a city 's mass grief … |
| 8 | A delegation from Europe 's largest hotel , the Izmailovo in Moscow , recently visited the Moat House International Hotel , Glasgow , to see for themselves the operating standards of a western hotel . |
| 9 | We want you to see for yourself the subtlety and awareness that can be wrought from the earth , to give style and grace to your everyday living . |
| 10 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 11 | He will then be able to see for himself the resignation , if not quiet contempt , with which his customers regard the service for which he and his managers must hold themselves fully accountable . |
| 12 | Will my hon. Friend therefore give me an undertaking that he will visit Dartford early in the new year , or on Christmas day if need be , to see for himself the damage that has been done to our river and how much has been lost ? |
| 13 | The jury , sitting in court 4 at Bristol , were sent home early by Judge Overend , so that he could drive to the bridge to see for himself the spot at which the accident happened . |
| 14 | Each group needs to see for itself the importance of indirect and hard-to-define influences . |
| 15 | It gave me a few minutes to stop and think about what the hell I was doing . |
| 16 | All the Brownies were invited to go home and think about what the Pack could do for the fete and bring their ideas and suggestions along to the next Pack Meeting . |
| 17 | She would think about it-in the morning . |
| 18 | A simple weaving shed or thread separator is used to raise and lower the warp threads through which the weft is woven . |
| 19 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
| 20 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 21 | We will know for ourselves the experience of God speaking through his written revelation to us . |
| 22 | Every year the gap widens between what the Trust raises from traditional sources of income , such as farm rents , investments and membership subscriptions , and what is needed to maintain properties , pay staff salaries and acquire new properties . |
| 23 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 24 | The children running the shop today are all aged eight and from the third year at school , but how much do they know about what the shop does . |
| 25 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 26 | The Cubist painters had claimed for themselves the right to move around their subject and incorporate aspects of it not visible from a single point of view , and they bestowed , in theory if not in actual practice , the same liberty on the spectator in relationship to their own work . |
| 27 | His first experience of the conflict between two powerful men , tossing between them the idea of war . |
| 28 | The County Council as I 'm aware was not actually consulted on these particular applications , and therefore I 'm not really in a position to be able to comment as what the County Council 's position . |
| 29 | The education and training of Health Care workers should include at least the possibility of working in partnership with people rather than for people , so that the experience of unlearning , deroling and relearning through which the family development nurses had to go in order to work effectively in this way with people , can be avoided . |
| 30 | The home provides a safe and secure place for children to ask their biggest questions about faith and to discover for themselves the love of God in Jesus Christ . |