Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 2 | Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Bergg said : ‘ We have made it perfectly clear that we intend to invest lots of money in training . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ That is my assessment of the case , Madame , as I intend to report it to my commandant . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 10 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 11 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 12 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 13 | We tend to see it from perhaps sort of Heathrow that you want to go in , into London because that 's where , where the links are , by roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Piccadilly line . |
| 14 | The liberal-historians , on the other hand , tend to find themselves in a somewhat more tricky position . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 17 | When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities . |
| 18 | For the Lord revealed , ‘ I intend to baptise them with tongues of fire ’ ( Wagner 1973:16 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to see her at once . |
| 20 | You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up . |
| 21 | ‘ You want to see me about something ? ’ |
| 22 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 23 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 24 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 25 | You want to see me in gaol . |
| 26 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 27 | Our attitude is that we want to see everyone in the six counties , whether Protestant or Catholic , active in the movement to attain civil rights for the people there . |
| 28 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 29 | Well , tonight you may leave early , but I want to see you with my guests every evening . |
| 30 | He shouted to make himself heard above the din : " I want to see you at once , " |