Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild .
2 The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday .
3 He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband .
4 ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . )
5 That this person should harbour aggressive feelings towards you is unimaginable , but then suddenly , she goes to poke you in the eye — and you blink .
6 JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase .
7 This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell .
8 Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm .
9 You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up .
10 ‘ You 're gon na gang bang them in the drive-ins , Harry .
11 Stuart is too good to be kept on the sidelines at a time when England have looked to include him in the B squad as the next stage of his international career .
12 ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’
13 He used to come to see me in the prison .
14 The elderly lady found a private moment in which to invite her hostess to come to see her in the room she occupied in her daughter 's house .
15 The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican .
16 ‘ Captain Aranyos wants to see you in the south chapel of the Stefansdom at three o'clock , ’ she blurted before he had the opportunity to broach the subject .
17 He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live .
18 ‘ It has devastated everyone in the organisation .
19 As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm .
20 When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching .
21 But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) .
22 She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims .
23 It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room .
24 As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark .
25 I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me .
26 Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him .
27 The student needs to immerse himself in the performance of a kata in order to release his emotions .
28 He has shot himself in the arm .
29 Since then , they estimate that he has seen something in the region of 70 doctors .
30 The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention .
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