Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I should n't interfere but I hate to see a young man throwing his life away . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I hate to see a decent man making a mess of his life . |
| 3 | Nutritionists and doctors agree that the food we eat has an enormous amount to do with the way we look and feel . |
| 4 | ‘ We want to see a coherent strategy drawing together Mr Hunt 's disjointed range of projects under global themes such as climate change , waste management , energy efficiency and biodiversity . |
| 5 | He told a Westminster press lunch : ‘ I want to see a Conservative government returned at the next general election under Margaret Thatcher 's leadership . ’ |
| 6 | In the long term , we want to see a united Ireland achieved by consensus and without violence . |
| 7 | ‘ A group of businessmen who , like me , want to see a British team regain the trophy . |
| 8 | ‘ The only way we can know that people want to see the Fun Factory becoming a success is if they vote with their feet and come to a meeting to show their support . ’ |
| 9 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |
| 10 | If you want to know the correct way to squat , then just watch a child of two or three because they are doing it all the time . |
| 11 | THE parents of murdered schoolteacher Fiona Jones want to meet the French Ambassador to tell him about their dissatisfaction with the result of the recent trial . |
| 12 | The radicalism of the young people in his office consists in this : that they want to create an ideal world flowing with milk and honey , where man is brother to man , and lives in harmony with nature ; where ice is warm to the touch , and no ocean is too wide for a child to wade across , bucket and spade in hand . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to hear the soft sighs breaking from you when I make love to you … why should I stop now , when I know that you want it , too ? ’ |
| 14 | As such , overlapping seems to be particularly effective at the engineering stages where companies want to avoid the technical problems associated with sharp reductions in individual stage length . |
| 15 | After orientation the intermediary should : Want to extend the general knowledge obtained according to objectives 1–5 , in order to carry out searches on may different databases , via different processing systems , for end-users . |
| 16 | It seeks to make clear that the task is bound to be an impossibility , because the unbeliever lacks the God-given capacity to understand . |
| 17 | Students often hesitate to let a rhythmic design run on for a long period , fearing monotony ; they therefore begin something different every few bars , sometimes in the belief that changing words need a constantly changing accompaniment . |
| 18 | No wonder male chauvinists want to reclaim the sole right to do so . |
| 19 | These young patients appear to have a good prognosis following infarction and intervention policies based on exercise testing in an older age group may not be appropriate . |
| 20 | Releasing her , he said , ‘ For someone who 's supposedly about to breathe her last , you appear to have an awful lot to say for yourself . |
| 21 | Para 5.1.2 We suggest altering the final line to read ‘ … postholder 's subject specialisms which include botanical literature , botanical history , information management , database and other software . ’ |
| 22 | Supposing the room in which you want to have an open fire does not have a chimney or a flue of any kind . |
| 23 | be willing to take time away from the office to work in a quiet place such as a library when you want to get an important job done to a deadline |
| 24 | Opt for a self-drive car only if you want to spend the whole day struggling to get off Hong Kong Island . |
| 25 | At a later stage one might , for some reason , want to prevent the other side using reports disclosed to them voluntarily as part of their case , and if they have been put in the wrong part of the list of documents the right to do so will have been lost . |
| 26 | Far from talking of the plutonium problem , desperate Russian nuclear engineers , encouraged by the plutonium industry in France and Britain , want to begin a new programme to build fast reactors running on plutonium , undaunted by difficulties the West has had with such technology . |
| 27 | ‘ But at some point I will need to sit down and figure out if I want to make a real career shift into another area , such as politics . |
| 28 | Sometime I will need to figure out if I want to make a real career shift — such as politics . |
| 29 | If you want to make a wooden staircase leading from the patio to the garden , it is made in the same way as an indoor staircase , expect that the timber used is much thicker . |
| 30 | If you want to make the naked truth unfurled ask tomorrow for the News of the World . |