Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 2 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | D' you want to see me in prison ? ’ |
| 5 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Reagan , Hatch , Quayle , they would 've clapped you in jail in the old days . ’ |
| 10 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was able to go to see her in hospital . |
| 14 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 15 | I used to talk to her and when I found out she was murdered it was a shock , because you expected to see her in here |
| 16 | We pledge to continue to support them in that . |
| 17 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 18 | The superintendents … have at least stopped using it in a noisy and disagreeable way |
| 19 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 20 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 21 | The analyst contended that " studies that find age differences ( among teenagers ) tend to find them in measures that are sensitive to socio-economic factors such as the prenatal complications of toxaemia and anaemia , rather than in biologically constrained outcomes of labour and delivery " . |
| 22 | When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities . |
| 23 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 24 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 25 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 26 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 27 | Maggie clung to the privacy of her room , as small children do to their teddy bears ; she never invited her friends there , preferring to contain them in the large sitting-room below . |
| 28 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 29 | You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up . |
| 30 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |