Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And above all he does n't want to see it appearing in the Accounts . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | ‘ I want to see something happening in the game , something that helps the players and the spectators to enjoy it — but how can it happen when players are congested in seven-and-a-half yards either side of the halfway line ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Some bloke tried to stop us jamming in the lobby and gave us loads of attitude , ’ he said . |
| 6 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 7 | Sarah Brightman 's Rose was a bloodless creature — she has to make us believe in the devil-may-care spirit of theatrical folk to show up the stuffiness of the aristocrats . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Her eyes spanned the room , once , twice , and seemed to find something threatening in the silence . |
| 10 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 11 | Our spies report that Bonkers Bono is so excited he 's decided to have it built in the shape of a guitar , though we at Public NME think a huge shoe-shape would be more relevant as the new album U2 are currently working on is supposed to be a load of old cobblers . |
| 12 | There is a big difference between the terms that you may be able to negotiate with , say , a US company seeking to recruit you to work in the Middle East and those offered by , say , a West German company offering a job at their headquarters , for which you are competing with a West German national . |
| 13 | The chains slithered again , and there was a scuttling movement in the shadows , and Grainne turned to see what crouched in the corner . |
| 14 | It really is something that I would like to see us achieve in the future and if this can be brought forward by meeting the developer down there , then I would be , certainly be in favour of that and I would certainly like , and this is what we said at this meeting , to find out a little more detail of exactly what they were offering but we have to be minded all the time , as I said again , is how we 're going to acquire permission to go over one or two different land owners ' lands . |
| 15 | A simple decision rule can be used to decide what to do in the case of source units which cross the target unit boundaries . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm going to take you swimming in the baths . ’ |
| 17 | Well , you alomost all seem to want us to publish in the programme and in TSB , so as agreed with , I 've drafted an article for The Square Ball which I 'm sending to the list for your comments . |
| 18 | And they have proved that they intend to let nothing stand in the way of a World Cup triumph when they stage the finals next summer . |
| 19 | Id like to see him continue in the side ( in any position ) . |
| 20 | When this was unsuccessful it would look around the cage where there was a long stick and suddenly it would decide to use it to rake in the fruit . |
| 21 | ‘ In those days , the new psychology was just beginning to make itself felt in the circles I most frequented in Oxford , ’ he told readers of the 1950 reprint of Dymer . |
| 22 | In September 1955 seismic activity began to make itself felt in the surrounding area , gradually increasing in severity until 22 October , when the eruption commenced . |
| 23 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 24 | But Pipe said : ‘ The Gold Cup is a long way away and we 'll just have to see what happens in the meantime . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Of course , we 'll have to let him go in the morning . ’ |
| 28 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 29 | Having looked at the growing success of the Editing for Industry awards and noted the fact that Alan Peaford was due to step down after a three-year stint in the chair , I decided to ask him to continue in the post for my year of office . |
| 30 | ‘ Later , I went to watch him sparring in the ring . |