Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 2 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 3 | She could not imagine who might want to see her at this time on a Saturday morning . |
| 4 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 6 | No doubt they will want to interview you at some time . |
| 7 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 8 | to continue to provide them with that service . |
| 9 | Now do you want to provide them with any parking facilities off parking ? |
| 10 | He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable . |
| 11 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 12 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 13 | Now I want to see you in four weeks again . |
| 14 | I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’ |
| 15 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 16 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 17 | However , no accounting standard-setting body in the world has recognized them as serious propositions for replacing accruals accounting . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 19 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 20 | Tory candidate Paul Rayner and Liberal Democray Rosamund Jordan will struggle to keep Mr Bell 's majority under 10,000 despite his concentration on Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority issues , with has diverted him from other matters . |
| 21 | I 've come to see you under another guise . |
| 22 | They will take approximately a week to reach this stage , so that while any traces remaining in a carpet could give rise to problems , a solid floor can be easily disinfected to kill them before this stage is reached . |
| 23 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 24 | Even so , striking on or soon after January 15th would help Mr Bush underline , for the benefit of critics at home and abroad , the clear legal authority the UN has given him for military action . |
| 25 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 26 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 27 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 28 | However , even if they do not make the play-offs , the Chiefs have achieved a degree of respectability that has eluded them in past seasons . |
| 29 | Is it my Unconscious ( of the existence of which I have informed doubts ) that has dropped me in this plight ? |
| 30 | He must need to know it for other reasons . |