Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 2 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
| 3 | ‘ Impressionable teenagers use the Arts Centre all the time and I do n't want to see them confronted by this sort of filth . |
| 4 | After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature . |
| 5 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 6 | There 's something about them that makes me want to see them glazed with passion — ’ |
| 7 | I did n't choose to live next to a reservoir … what I want from you is an assurance that your company will compensate everyone affected for all the losses they incur because of the reservoir ( everyone cheers ) . |
| 8 | Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners , the culture of their lands was unskilful , and their domestic life unformed ; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux , and their houses as filthy as the cottages of Hottentots . ’ |
| 9 | For many years afterwards I was naturally very wary of any dog and , although I soon learnt not to run away , as this would only make them run after me , I never willingly approached them . |
| 10 | The selection of committees is an important matter and the newly-elected councillor , if he has any preferences , should make them known in some form either to his political group or to his acquaintances on the council . |
| 11 | Er Mr Ashdown says er no reason to disagree with him , that he was always in favour of the things in the social contract , but he did n't want them handled in that kind of manner . |
| 12 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 13 | If men want young women , they do n't want them packaged in an old body and mind . |
| 14 | Erm things you would and you would n't want them connected to the mains , stuck in your mouth . |
| 15 | Er and obviously if we 've got thousands of those coming to each three regional offices we 've got to find some method of distributing them , we do n't want them left in the office do we ? |
| 16 | D' you want them put into this box ? |
| 17 | I do not want them buried under mounds of paper . ’ |
| 18 | They do n't want them arrested for doing what they are trained for , so they do n't arrest agents of Argentina . |
| 19 | This may be connected to the fact that the youngsters came bottom as far as hugs were concerned , as 57pc said their parents hugged them compared with a national average of 70pc . |
| 20 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 21 | ‘ So you got me fired from my job , ’ Maria supplied dully . |
| 22 | The three answering apparitions make him feel safer with their answers of … and yet he decides to kill Macduff for safe measure but as Macduff has fled he decides to kill everyone linked with Macduff though they pose him no threat . |
| 23 | On the positive side though , these politicians got things done , and got them done in detail ( the use by Kleon , then absent from Athens , of his son-in-law Thoudippos to move the complex reassessment decree of 425 implies efficiency and a refusal to trust to luck . |
| 24 | On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’ |
| 25 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 26 | Oh yes , my curtains have arrived — Heather just got them finished before going to Australia , and I put them up last week . |
| 27 | It 's like a dream in which we 've been trying to get through to people and we 've represented this by seeing ourselves locked inside our homes , desperately trying to get out . |
| 28 | Portuguese , although appearing to be similar to Spanish on paper , is pronounced completely differently , and so despite the fact that we could communicate in French and Spanish , we could not make ourselves understood in Portuguese other than to ask , ‘ Fala ingles ? — do you speak English ? ’ |
| 29 | We make ourselves known in the village w erm you see we 've got the peace movement at the moment and last year er we always have put a wreath . |
| 30 | I want them split down that road |