Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And above all he does n't want to see it appearing in the Accounts . |
| 2 | Maurice probably did n't want to risk her objecting to the surrender of Tristram 's letters . |
| 3 | What would employees below think to hear us shouting at the top of our voices about what is and what is not the correct Chinaman ? ’ |
| 4 | He wished it were Perdita at the end of the rope , he 'd like to see her crashing to the ground over and over again . |
| 5 | I hope that gradually we will stop seeing them begging on the streets without any prospects for their future . |
| 6 | Someone might have heard him talking in a pub about his sudden excess of money and decided to take it off him . |
| 7 | You may have seen them walking through the woods and thought that they have a nice easy job . |
| 8 | Considering the clean wake and the almost dinghy-like responsiveness of the yacht , we were convinced that a reach in a slightly stiffer breeze would have seen her sliding into an easy surf . |
| 9 | I did n't even wait for the curtain call and the audience must have seen me charging through the lobby as they made their way out . |
| 10 | Anyone passing Belfast 's Europa Hotel on Monday could well have seen it moving to a funky beat — not because of high winds or earthquake , but the first heat of the Coca Cola ‘ 93 Disco Dancing Championships , which are co-sponsored by ‘ Sunday Life ’ . |
| 11 | He may have found him sleeping in the porch . |
| 12 | All of these comments and caveats will have set you pondering on the myriad uses to which you can put the data base , the diary , the notepad and the calculator . |
| 13 | But last night Mrs Ralli denied 36-year-old Gilbey had actually booked the cottage and said she was baffled about why he should try to stop her speaking to the Press . |
| 14 | Would I be tough and wise-cracking at the end , or would they have to drag me screaming through the last door like a jelly-livered rat ? |
| 15 | Engine trouble on the first leg did n't manage to stop him coming in a creditable second . |
| 16 | Could we bear to see him weeping across the border there in West Yorkshire ? |
| 17 | Filling the pipe with sand will help to prevent it breaking in the wrong place . |