Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 12 | If men want young women , they do n't want them packaged in an old body and mind . |
| 13 | Erm things you would and you would n't want them connected to the mains , stuck in your mouth . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | D' you want them put into this box ? |
| 16 | I do not want them buried under mounds of paper . ’ |
| 17 | They do n't want them arrested for doing what they are trained for , so they do n't arrest agents of Argentina . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ So you got me fired from my job , ’ Maria supplied dully . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Oh yes , my curtains have arrived — Heather just got them finished before going to Australia , and I put them up last week . |
| 25 | I get her head and you know Beetlejuice when he goes I got ta show you it cos sometimes she 's , she 's not alert and when she 's like that it looks wicked cos he goes and her ears are like that she goes and I get her to play the banjo and she goes it 's wicked ! |
| 26 | I want them split down that road |
| 27 | And I care not what may be the motive of the parents who bring their children and want them offered to Christ in the sacrament of baptism it is the grace of God that is available for them there and I think we should be very thoughtful about these matters and try to take up either one position or the other . |
| 28 | We want them improved for the coming year and certainly by the first year of the council tax . |
| 29 | Order 16 , r 10 applies , and in whatever manner a transfer may be ordered , the county court : ( 1 ) gives notice to all parties ( N 278 ) ; ( 2 ) copies all court records , has them certified by the district judge , and sends them to the High Court together with : ( a ) all documents filed ; ( b ) the transfer order ( if made by the county court ) ( N 278 ) ; ( c ) ( if legitimacy proceedings ) a certificate by the district judge showing the state of the proceedings and the steps taken ( Ord 16 , r 10 ) . |
| 30 | But for value for money , New York 's Empire State Building has them beaten at 6.7ft a penny |