Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ What the hell do you want to see him for ? ’ asked Brown . |
| 32 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 33 | and I 'm certainly wearing paint tonight , quite a bit of it because its very hot under here and you would n't want to see me without it , but that 's me saying that , I mean why do I ? , why do I ? , why are we all wearing make-up ? , do we actually think we look better ? , are we trying to disguise something ? , yes |
| 34 | ‘ Did you want to see me about something ? ’ said Wilcox impatiently . |
| 35 | D' you want to see me in prison ? ’ |
| 36 | She could not imagine who might want to see her at this time on a Saturday morning . |
| 37 | They 'll want to see her for sure . ’ |
| 38 | But after he had left them Rain wondered whether Shildon might not want to see her about his MacQuillan inquiry , a matter other events had put out of her mind . |
| 39 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
| 40 | Local councillor Eddie McEvilly said : ‘ I do n't really want to talk about conditions on the operation , because I do n't want to see it at all . ’ |
| 41 | It was so useful to have been on the road myself and to have experienced cold-calling , setting up new accounts , or merchandising accounts that did n't want to see you at that particular moment . |
| 42 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 43 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 44 | Monism , with its rejection of the form-meaning dichotomy , was a tenet of the New Critics , who rejected the idea that a poem conveys a message , preferring to see it as an autonomous verbal artefact . |
| 45 | ‘ That is my assessment of the case , Madame , as I intend to report it to my commandant . ’ |
| 46 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 47 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 48 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 49 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 50 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 51 | No doubt they will want to interview you at some time . |
| 52 | ‘ What does he want to interview you for ? ! ’ |
| 53 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 54 | ‘ Reagan , Hatch , Quayle , they would 've clapped you in jail in the old days . ’ |
| 55 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 56 | That this person should harbour aggressive feelings towards you is unimaginable , but then suddenly , she goes to poke you in the eye — and you blink . |
| 57 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 58 | You are lucky enough to have Bella here to teach you , and your mother also , and as you know , I have undertaken to instruct you in history , since I am the one who has seen such a lot of it , as it were face to face . |
| 59 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 60 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |