Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want to see a working countryside and we do n't want to see it fossilised so it 's almost like a theme park . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd prefer to see it ended ? ’ |
| 3 | Opposition to fox hunting continues to grow — a recent gallup poll showed eighty percent of people in England want to see it banned . |
| 4 | Our selection procedure still exists , but I want to see it changed to one which is more equitable . |
| 5 | PC World 's customer profile breaks down into those who know what they want but want to see it demonstrated and to be able to walk away with the product ; those who know a bit , but have never bought a computer before ; and corporate customers seeking the best value for money . |
| 6 | She felt as though she were suffocating in the heat , as though it were stopping her nostrils , sealing her mouth , and when she tried to breathe it forced itself down into her stomach and made her heave . |
| 7 | Indeed , one has heard it said more that once that there are two things people wo n't talk about honestly — sex and money . |
| 8 | And no one , not retailers , not customers — not even competitors — wants to see it snuffed out . |
| 9 | What she say want it thinned out or ordinary cut or what ? |
| 10 | The man who is so insensitive that he does n't realise what 's happening needs it spelt out to him . |
| 11 | Joan had not visited Brian 's grave in five years and had expected to find it neglected and overgrown . |
| 12 | The richness all around unsettled him , for he had expected to find it accompanied elsewhere in the Khanate by signs of extreme poverty . |
| 13 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 14 | It is huge and successful , but over the past decade it has undergone a radical change that has seen it transformed from a seemingly crusty , actuary-dominated organisation to one that is prominently business led , competitive and very high profile . |
| 15 | In imitative play he might assume a role in imitation of one with which he is familiar and might handle equipment as he has seen it used by others . |
| 16 | Unfortunately it was not a very good lute , as the assistant in the music shop to which he tried to sell it pointed out at — unnecessarily — great length . |
| 17 | Novell has said it expected Univel to do over $5m worth of business during the quarter just closed . |
| 18 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 19 | ADDS says it designed its xEasy software for ease of use . |
| 20 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 21 | The gun was meant to give him control , she had n't expected to hear it used . |
| 22 | Airtours ' chairman , David Crossland , blamed his defeat on what he called ‘ the spoiling action ’ of the eleventh-hour intervention by Thomas Cook , the German-controlled travel agency , which on Monday snapped up 8.4 per cent of Owners to try to ensure it remained independent . |
| 23 | The technical nature of the work meant that they could not be expected to check it had been satisfactorily done . |
| 24 | A COUNCIL has admitted it blundered by sending a former employee a letter claiming magistrates had granted it a liability order over alleged non-payment of poll tax . |
| 25 | The pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad group has admitted it carried out the bomb attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in which eleven people died . |
| 26 | It was the first time South Africa has admitted it possessed nuclear weapons , though the United States government suggested as long ago as 1979 that Pretoria might possess an atom bomb after a satellite detected two nuclear-like flashes over Antarctic waters to the south of Cape Town . |
| 27 | There must have been about nine or ten of them — all men except for one woman — and they tried to say it took all of them to restrain me . |
| 28 | Tesselmann 's fingers twitched but when he tried to speak it escaped from his lips as a gurgle . |
| 29 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 30 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |