Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I love animals and hate to see them killed , ’ said Clara McKay , 81 . |
| 2 | The banks are businesses too and we do not want to see them closed down . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's because he 's my friend that I do n't want to see him hurt . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | He added : ‘ I do n't want to see anyone sent off but you ca n't have tackles like that flying around . ’ |
| 6 | Goodness there 's a great sort of burden off is n't it all this sort of shopping er you got to go we finished all the shop and that 's it . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd prefer to see it ended ? ’ |
| 8 | He would have liked to hurry off eastwards , towards Roxburgh , to endeavour to see what had happened to Murray , and to do what he could to help . |
| 9 | He saw this diving towards Filfla trailing clouds of black and white smoke , but was then chased by another Messerschmitt and failed to see what happened to it . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're enjoying seeing me laid low , are n't you ? ’ she snapped testily . |
| 11 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |
| 12 | Revolutionary this certainly was in concept , for it sought to displace what came to be called Capitalism by industrial collectivism , to secure that industry should be run by the workpeople for the workpeople , and through the agency of trade unionism . |
| 13 | An ambulance was called but efforts made to revive her proved unsuccessful . |
| 14 | He had set people to follow her , and everywhere she went he would eventually turn up , demanding to know what had happened to the jade . |
| 15 | The Headmaster is demanding to know what happened . |
| 16 | ‘ After I became involved we came up with denim products , which had great success for ladies ’ fashions . |
| 17 | Do n't ye want to know what happened to him ? ’ |
| 18 | My reply to these people , if they asked me what happened at the branch meeting I say , do you want to know what happened in the branch meeting ? |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't you want to know what happened to Phena ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 20 | Members were so kind in their congratulations that they will want to know what happened when I went to the Palace on February 7th to receive the M.B.E . |
| 21 | I 'd want to know who sent it . |
| 22 | They 'd want to know who sent him . |
| 23 | Consider the implications of : Do we really want to know who put up the poster ? |
| 24 | Besides , now that she had stopped walking she did n't seem to be able to stop herself from shivering . |
| 25 | But he was under a cloud anyway after his men failed to find who had placed a bomb in the office of Major-General Seri Temiyaveh , the head of the Bangkok police department 's crime-suppression division . |
| 26 | Police and ambulancemen who rushed to Birmingham 's New Street station expected to find she had been killed . |
| 27 | ‘ How Mr Chapman got to know what had happened in 12 hours is a mystery to some people , for he was in Huddersfield when the Liverpool deputation had bade goodnight to their hosts from Aberdeen . |
| 28 | And if you want to see what passed for America 's energy policy , you 're looking at it . |
| 29 | I want to see what happened , er , it finished just where he says that he 'd been accused of something . |
| 30 | She did not , now , want to see him dismissed , led away hanging his head . |