Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’ |
| 3 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 4 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ You have come to challenge me in mortal combat . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 12 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 13 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 14 | I want to get you in three-quarter profile . ’ |
| 15 | If they want to join us in this enterprise , so much the better . |
| 16 | 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 . " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You know you wrote that letter and it said oh , I hope to see you in half term and then , then said I hope not |
| 19 | Indeed the business was said to have made ‘ the very best of progress ’ and its move to open systems is reckoned to stand it in good stead for the future . |
| 20 | Once a routine of breastfeeds is established the mother can then choose to eliminate them in gradual succession . |
| 21 | Although the thing is initially being tested under OS/2 2.0 and AIX , IBM plans to incorporate it in future operating systems and to do versions of the Distributed System Object Model for other systems — and the Taligent Inc joint venture with Apple Computer Inc also has licence to the technology . |
| 22 | Scaevola refuses to interpret it in this way . |
| 23 | It is perhaps somewhat strange , given the proven commercial success of the VT600 , that very little effort is made to market it in this country . |
| 24 | That the German audience is not deaf to beauty of tone production as some have been so foolish to pretend , is shown by the enormous enthusiasm with which Battistini is greeted when he sings in Germany , to say nothing of Caruso , although one hesitates to mention him in such proximity to so transcendent an artist as Battistini . ’ |
| 25 | Once the Chairman has signed the minutes no one is empowered to alter them in any way . |
| 26 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 27 | Now I do n't want to embarrass them in any way . |
| 28 | And we 've got to include him in some crime as soon as we can . |
| 29 | I 've experienced more now , and it 's going to stand me in good stead . |
| 30 | Political influence is what the Other Side wants as much as anything and you 've got to meet it in that arena . |