Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will be reminded of the saying of Jesus , ‘ ’ He who has seen me has seen the Father . ’ |
| 2 | Faith , by contrast , approaches Jesus with a radically different attitude , recognising in him the revelation of the invisible God , believing that it is true that ‘ he who has seen me has seen the Father ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Leave them alone until someone who understands them has examined the site . |
| 4 | The promotion has led to some shops selling out of £120 vacuum cleaners , and the Cambuslang , Strathclyde , factory that makes them has defied the recession by switching to seven-day working . |
| 5 | The development of these powerful new means of communication and the accompanying development of personnel highly skilled in them has expanded the means of control of information as well as its dissemination . |
| 6 | But even in the case of such an Act , if there are superadded provisions which attach to non-payment consequences other than a bare liability to be sued , there can be no justification for refusing to have regard to those consequences and to consider whether the existence of the provisions creating them has placed the payer under such pressure that the payments have not in truth been voluntary . |
| 7 | This growth of alternative markets for short-term money and the instruments that go with them has made the supply and demand for short-term money extremely competitive . |
| 8 | Sixty two Firefly engines were made in the mid-nineteenth century and not one of them has survived the scrapheap . |
| 9 | The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers . |
| 10 | I goes open the bathroom . |
| 11 | Look who 's I says get the job done , and I am the father like |
| 12 | Bill only likes H P beans and I give Maggie a tin of them seventeen P beans and I says throw the tin away before he sees it and he could n't tell the difference . |
| 13 | I says has the machine come . |
| 14 | Theudebert I was reliant on his leudes to survive the threat from his uncles on his accession , and Chilperic I created an equivalent following through bribery in order to make his bid for the throne in 561 . |
| 15 | Dropping her off , she turns to close the door of my car , |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't mind her , ’ Tim joked , ‘ She hates leaving the office . |
| 17 | She agrees to go the city council and lodge a complaint . |
| 18 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 19 | Now she wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge , tend to her beloved garden in Kennebunkport and read to her own grandchildren , instead of other people 's . |
| 20 | She wants to take the pop charts by storm in the multi-talented manner of her heroine , Barbra Streisand . |
| 21 | When I asked my wife what car she wants to replace the Peugeot , she said ‘ the safest one ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ She wants to ask the boy from the bistro to it . |
| 23 | She wants to join the WRNS . ’ |
| 24 | She has stoutly defended the acquisition , for C$1.8 billion ( $1.6 billion ) , of 50 naval helicopters , while arguing that she wants to reduce the budget deficit . |
| 25 | ‘ She wants to marry the Duke . ’ |
| 26 | This might happen because the writer is tired , because he or she wants to get the writing over and done with ; but the fundamental reason seems to be that the writer has broken contact with the feeling that originally made him or her want to write the story or poem . |
| 27 | When a speaker uses because in normal conversation , it is likely that her intention is to communicate information about causal direction she wants to inform the hearer that the event mentioned after because is the cause . |
| 28 | Jane Campbell , a member of the Independent Living Support Group in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames says she wants to raise the injustice of the £500 limit in another forum . |
| 29 | No I do n't think she 's ready quite yet , she 's got a few things to sort out first and that 's definitely not right , she wants to raise the daggerboard not lower it , bit of confusion there about which way to turn the tiller but she 's round safely , she should be looking where she 's going now instead of sorting out all the string . |
| 30 | Other examples of such ambiguity are plentiful ; we offer at random : ( 3 ) ( a ) she wants to play the character limping ( b ) this process leaves the items date-stamped ( c ) Elmer made all the excuses imaginable ( d ) our lawyer sent the packages registered For instance , taking example ( c ) , under the attributive version , a speaker has a low opinion of Elmer as a man who prevaricates or procrastinates ; but with the alternative interpretation she may be giving credit to him for lending colour and credibility to a defence which has to be put forward . |