Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 3 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 4 | Now I want to see you in four weeks again . |
| 5 | I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’ |
| 6 | By the year 2000 , the Government wants to see one in three school leavers entering a university or college . |
| 7 | I think , I mean , one way is for editors with similar jobs to get together and do a generic one erm but there 's only one editor amongst us so you have no-one together with unless you want to find somebody in another group , but I do n't think it 's going to really serve very much purpose . |
| 8 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 9 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 10 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 11 | It is not recommended to exercise her in this condition , because of the unwelcomed attention she will receive , and the risk of her becoming pregnant . |
| 12 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 13 | ‘ You have come to challenge me in mortal combat . ’ |
| 14 | How many wonem women would you need to do it in six hours ? |
| 15 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |
| 16 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 18 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 19 | ‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’ |
| 20 | Nutrition is the process by which the body acquires all the foodstuffs it needs to keep it in good working order and converts them into energy , new body tissue and those substances necessary to keep all the body processes ( metabolism ) going . |
| 21 | For although the particular details might vary , history was expected to repeat itself in each katun , and significant events would follow the pre-ordained general pattern . |
| 22 | Now somehow I want you to break out of that and to , as I say , shout it from the rooftops , because in the end , the public applause from that will protect you from those who might seek to neuter you in that role . |
| 23 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 24 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 25 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 26 | I want to get you in three-quarter profile . ’ |
| 27 | If they want to join us in this enterprise , so much the better . |
| 28 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 29 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 30 | If the complex we observed was required for PPT expression we would expect to see it in these cells . |