Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another result is that firms make ‘ supernormal ’ profits ( profits in excess of those necessary to induce them to remain in the industry ) at consumers ' expense . |
| 2 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 3 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
| 4 | I would nt be at all suprised to see them play in the ‘ theatre of dreams ’ . |
| 5 | At this Mr Healey was jolly pleased to see me trapped in the Thickets of Quotation , and , again merrily , said , ‘ Plato ? |
| 6 | Cut a slice off the bottom of each pear to enable them to sit in a dish without falling over , and place in an ovenproof dish well spaced out . |
| 7 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 8 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |
| 9 | Pavel Penkin is the strike leader , what farmers want he says is a massive injection of state investment to enable them to compete in the new free market and improve their lot . |
| 10 | It has a peculiarly romantic ring about it and refers to ‘ special protection , opportunities and facilities to enable them to develop in a healthy and normal manner in freedom and dignity ’ , to ‘ special treatment , education and care ’ and ‘ love and understanding and an atmosphere of affection and security ’ . |
| 11 | The first efforts to drain them began in the 1880s , but the main push came after a hurricane in 1947 drove floodwaters over Lake Okeechobee 's southern edge , drowning more than 2,000 people . |
| 12 | Judging by his expression , Clive had not been best pleased to find me ensconced in the Parsons ' sitting room that night . |
| 13 | It is an offence to organise , to participate in or to incite someone to participate in a banned march . |
| 14 | Rauschning returned to face a whole series of issues and policies he felt he could no longer support or accept and to find himself cited in an investigation of both Jewish and communist influence in the city . |
| 15 | I do not know whether the director of The Tallis Scholars was gratified to find himself presented in The New Yorker as an American stereotype of the classy Englishman with a dandyish dress sense , a love of cricket , a public school education leading to Oxford , and a colloquial idiom with a touch of P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 16 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 17 | It is difficult to fit the two together , and to know which visits in the two books correspond . |
| 18 | Her eyes spanned the room , once , twice , and seemed to find something threatening in the silence . |
| 19 | Outside , a few brown chickens were trying to find something to eat in the garden . |
| 20 | Wherever you are out with your dog try to encourage it to defecate in a place where you can clean up easily afterwards . |
| 21 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 22 | ‘ And I believe that I began then to train myself to listen in the voice of somebody , or look through the outer facade . |
| 23 | And of course , there is the ‘ ENDINGS ’ section , for all the people who do n't like reading books but want to know what happens in the end . ’ |
| 24 | JEWKES is interested to know what happens in the bedroom . |
| 25 | My reply to these people , if they asked me what happened at the branch meeting I say , do you want to know what happened in the branch meeting ? |
| 26 | The tree itself is beautiful but the combination of the clay soil and the shade from the tree means its not easy to know what to grow in the west-facing border underneath . |
| 27 | This year 's report hopes to bring about a consultation exercise to establish what to prioritize in the G M B Health and Safety Service . |
| 28 | Time and again intelligence organisations chase after these grandiose projects only to find themselves lost in the wasteland of truth created by their own stupidity . |
| 29 | If you are unlucky enough to find yourself working in a heavily stress-laden environment ( which schools are ) then , inevitably , you will ‘ catch it ’ and ‘ come down with it ’ . |
| 30 | The use of an outsider to observe what happens in a school has a long history in Britain through the process of formal school inspection . |