Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] 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 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But explore all the options first , such as cost-cutting and restructuring borrowings , before calling in an insolvency practitioner : they tend to see everything in terms of insolvency legislation . |
| 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 | You 're gon na want to support someone in groups are n't you ? |
| 19 | You 're gon na want to support someone in groups with the changes coming on board , know what I mean ? |
| 20 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 21 | But in the early stages of his reign , as he sought to establish himself in quarrels with some of his more powerful vassals , Philip relied heavily upon aid from Henry II and his sons , from the family which he was to do so much to tear apart . |
| 22 | The message from my friend is this : that you should keep that pretty little nose out of things that do n't concern you if you do n't want to find yourself in a whole load of trouble . |
| 23 | This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell . |
| 24 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 25 | The liberal-historians , on the other hand , tend to find themselves in a somewhat more tricky position . |
| 26 | 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 " . |
| 27 | When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 30 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |