Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " 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 hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 3 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 4 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 5 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 6 | So I did n't want to burden her by being awkward about it , make her feel bad about it , equally I have n't really thanked her . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 8 | But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all . |
| 9 | " I do n't want to burden you with my problems . " |
| 10 | But there — I do n't want to burden you with my troubles . ’ |
| 11 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 12 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 13 | She knew me as Matt and I did n't want to alert you to who I was until I 'd found out what was going on . |
| 14 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 15 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 16 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 17 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 18 | It was this , his wife had said , which he had intended to gas her with , using the fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 19 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 20 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 22 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 23 | ‘ What the hell do you want to see him for ? ’ asked Brown . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | ‘ Did you want to see me about something ? ’ said Wilcox impatiently . |
| 27 | D' you want to see me in prison ? ’ |
| 28 | She could not imagine who might want to see her at this time on a Saturday morning . |
| 29 | They 'll want to see her for sure . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |