Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My contact with the family had lapsed for a while when the head asked to see me to request help in explaining the Statementing procedures to Mrs Singh . |
| 2 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 3 | I do n't want to miss them growing up . ’ |
| 4 | Frog eggs are about one to two millimetres in diameter and , like the chick , have enough yolk to enable them to grow to a stage when they can feed themselves . |
| 5 | I did n't stay to see it happen , just went as far up the fields as I could go . |
| 6 | Herr Schikenader , the former proprietor , chanced to see me perform one evening . |
| 7 | Here knowledge of material practices and social understanding combine to enable them to read the text in specific ways . |
| 8 | On board training is given to enable us to promote staff who show ability and aptitude . |
| 9 | This payroll management service has been developed to enable us to convert salaries , wages and pensions from gross to net pay in accordance with statutory requirements . |
| 10 | Also , I love animals and hate to see them suffer . |
| 11 | ‘ I love animals and hate to see them killed , ’ said Clara McKay , 81 . |
| 12 | ‘ I hate to see them do that , but it is better than the children being trampled underfoot in the rush . |
| 13 | ‘ I hate to see you going home empty handed , ’ said Madame , and she gave him a package tied like a cake in neatly folded greaseproof paper . |
| 14 | that 's better really , and we surely do n't want to lose them do we ? |
| 15 | Oh my god , there 's remembering things , erm I 'm hoping to , ok I do n't , I do n't want to go you know it 's too early |
| 16 | ‘ Impressionable teenagers use the Arts Centre all the time and I do n't want to see them confronted by this sort of filth . |
| 17 | There 's something about them that makes me want to see them glazed with passion — ’ |
| 18 | The banks are businesses too and we do not want to see them closed down . ’ |
| 19 | She did n't want to see him leave . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's because he 's my friend that I do n't want to see him hurt . |
| 21 | No matter what he got up to , Constance did n't want to see him damaged : it was the women she blamed , the tarts who ran after him . |
| 22 | ‘ Now I wo n't come down on him like a ton of bricks if he misses chances but I do n't want to see him becoming uptight and letting other aspects of his game suffer if things do n't go right — as against Norway . |
| 23 | People have me in a little pocket of their minds in that role [ Ben Braddock ] and they do n't want to see me get out of it . |
| 24 | One white lone mother in my study noted that her mother was also a woman coping alone on a very limited income : ‘ she 'd rather put us first but I do n't want to see her go without . ’ |
| 25 | She 's so damned intent on following in Chrissie 's footsteps … do you want to see her end up in a box , as well ? ’ |
| 26 | Clearly , I do n't want to see us having just an open ended thing , that every time they get into trouble , we bail them out , but I do think that we need to give breathing space now , until we can come with a , a , a decent set of proposals for the future of the building . |
| 27 | I do n't want to see it end in tragedy . ’ |
| 28 | And frankly I think it and I hope to God that John I d I know he does n't want to see it happen to him , I hope to God it does n't . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Nana , do n't want to see it 'gain , ’ yelled Celia through her tears . |