Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 3 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 8 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He believed the order had been given to kill him by the DO . |
| 11 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 12 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 13 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 14 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 15 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 16 | An important element of any compensation payment is the damages intended to compensate you for the injury itself , and the effect it has on you and your lifestyle , both today and in the future . |
| 17 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 18 | She was disappointed that he had n't arranged to meet her during the afternoon or even later on . |
| 19 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 20 | Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa . |
| 21 | The courses are aimed at senior management and are intended to provide them with the knowledge and skills to exploit AIT effectively in their business . |
| 22 | The authorities in Addis Ababa had undertaken to provide me with an escort of ten soldiers while I was among the Danakil . |
| 23 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 24 | You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up . |
| 25 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 26 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 27 | If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro . |
| 28 | Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not |
| 29 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 30 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |