Example sentences of "[verb] [n mass] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did Mrs Kettering want Buck to leave her or was she considering a more extreme solution ? |
| 2 | Here a hypothesis on regional differentiation , sometimes coinciding with social differentiation is attractive , although it is very difficult indeed to provide data to support it . |
| 3 | Leaning is permissible above 3,000 feet , but check in you flight manual to verify that climbing rpm gives you less than 75 per cent power at that altitude . |
| 4 | You want fish do you ? |
| 5 | The thing is that I could n't cancel the draft — it cost £6.50 to get it , and would have cost another £12.00 to get it annulled . |
| 6 | On the other hand , I want people to like me . |
| 7 | That probably is n't true because all of us want people to like us . |
| 8 | I just want people to give me a chance to help others . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps the former are slower ; or perhaps they are doing it because they want people to say they are working hard . |
| 10 | A huge orange and black van with the full the name of the owner on it of course , because if you want to advertise something a removal van is one of the best things in the world for putting an advert on if you want people to see it that is . |
| 11 | I WANT PEOPLE TO NOTICE ME |
| 12 | I want people to tell me exactly how they feel , because I find that , when people speak exactly what they feel , it 's usually what I feel too . |
| 13 | ‘ Our five-point charter covers provision , access , hygiene , design and facilities for parents , ’ she says , ‘ and we want people to tell us what improvements they 'd like . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Chettle , working from the Middlesbrough office of Cleveland Arts , speaks excitedly of projects being undertaken in the area , saying : ‘ We want people to know they are happening . ’ |
| 15 | The band spent a fortune on chrysanthemums , employing people to distribute them at every gig . |
| 16 | The first thing any retailer needs to do is let people know he is there ! |
| 17 | Once you 've met a really brilliant mind you realise people like us are small fry . |
| 18 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 19 | And to encourage people to work they would make them fill in a job-sheet saying how many forms they had booked in . |
| 20 | If you 're not weeping and wailing people think you 're doing alright . |
| 21 | Unions say staff feel it 's unfair but are frightened to speak out publicly . |
| 22 | Do n't know people do they ? |
| 23 | " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin . |
| 24 | But now the firm which employs 150 people in Belle Vale Road , Gateacre , wants people to see it as a classy and versatile product . |
| 25 | The right hon. Gentleman wants people to let him spend their money rather than spending it themselves . |
| 26 | ‘ He made his money in them , ’ Patrick gravely explained , ‘ and now he tries to pretend he did n't , because he wants people to think he 's always been rich . |
| 27 | I do n't want readers getting the wrong idea about this letter , but the compulsion to write came on seeing people like Jeff Young , who thinks I Should Be So Lucky is a good song ( well , it probably is , if you 're 10 years old ) ; Norman Jay , who does n't want bands to get in touch if all they want is a record deal ; Mick Clarke , who ‘ wants people to tell him what he 's listening to is good ’ , then only signs people he likes , etc . |
| 28 | Whatever the structure , an organisation needs people to make it work and hence the need to take into account the roles of individuals , their beliefs , values , motivations and how they interact with each other and with groups . |
| 29 | On our first day of trading we took £8.36 , which delighted us , but a local health nut had eaten the geraniums and it cost £6 to replace them . |
| 30 | Had he pressed on he might none the less have taken Newcastle , which contained many Jacobite sympathisers , but while he dallied , turning aside to Hexham , 15 miles [ 24 km ] west of the city , the Newcastle magistrates called out the militia and trained bands , mobilised a force of 700 tough keelmen , who worked on the lighters in the harbour , patched up the ancient city wall , though they lacked cannon to defend it , and bricked up the gates . |