Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After young bands have had a couple of hit singles , with their album selling well , everybody wants to see them perform live . |
| 2 | ‘ I hate to see them do that , but it is better than the children being trampled underfoot in the rush . |
| 3 | The band failed to advise said fans , who have endured a five-year wait to see them play live in the UK , that tickets went on sale last Saturday , and sold out on the same day . |
| 4 | Herr Schikenader , the former proprietor , chanced to see me perform one evening . |
| 5 | I pay a great tribute to my dad , who as a trade unionist on the railway would have been so proud to see me receive this very great honour . |
| 6 | When I was out of the room , he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd like to see you explain all that to a first form said Clare , exasperated . |
| 8 | I would like to see you catch one more trout . |
| 9 | As markers , we would be happy enough to see you argue either way as long as you recognized that there is indeed room for argument over this point . |
| 10 | Hello my pet , I do n't like to see you like this . |
| 11 | Myself , I 'd like to see you take another try at Balaam . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was terribly proud to hear them say that ’ . |
| 13 | Another was the lack of an accurate theory to help them estimate those conditions . |
| 14 | ‘ This information can then be used to help them avoid those situations once they have given up . ’ |
| 15 | You may well find it easier to obtain people again , particularly with a new climate on employed volunteering , there 's no doubt about that , that there is a new attitude where companies are willing to encourage employees to spend their time and to help o to help them give minimum resources , to organise them . |
| 16 | They were ‘ dwarfs ’ at 5′ 8″ and were disparagingly said to ‘ need a helmet to help them appear big enough ’ . |
| 17 | Although the fish are probably using water currents , the sun or a magnetic sense to help them achieve this feat , it has long been suspected that smell is also involved . |
| 18 | This would be achieved by formulating a convention on climate change , to include legally binding protocols on cutting emissions of gases which contributed to global warming , and provisions for industrialized countries to provide financial and technical assistance to Third-World countries to help them achieve this without forgoing the benefits of industrial development . |
| 19 | What seems to be of more use to people are specific things they can do to help them achieve these states . |
| 20 | It is clear that practitioners need a framework to help them manage this process , to produce a degree of consistency of purpose , scope , and content of assessment across different practitioners , whilst also enabling the assessment process to be adapted flexibly to individual people and their circumstances . |
| 21 | I believe it would be very helpful if we could establish a Campaign Fund to which branches could apply for grants to help them undertake innovative or special projects designed to strengthen their capacity to campaign . |
| 22 | Although they face daily and substantial fluctuations in demand for their output , they wish to ensure that they do have sufficient staff available to help them satisfy this demand . |
| 23 | Having educated our clients in relation to the psychology and physiology of anxiety , the next step is to help them break any patterns of avoidance that may have become established . |
| 24 | Wednesday 's tie , which Jack Charlton 's team need to win to help them reach next year 's World Cup finals in the US , will be shown live at about 70 Irish locations to supporters paying up to £10 a time . |
| 25 | NEXT month 's Budget should provide tax concessions for owners of historic houses to help them meet crippling maintenance costs , according to Earl Haig . |
| 26 | There is a revolution taking place today in the way that executives are obtaining information to help them make critical business decisions . |
| 27 | While recognising that recent trends in health education are encouraging a move away from a purely topics-based programme , pupils need to have access to reliable information on a wide range of aspects of health to help them make informed judgements about healthy practices . |
| 28 | Drinkwise 1993 is designed to provide the public with information about alcohol to help them make informed choices about drinking . |
| 29 | The pupils who come to Learning Support are encouraged to look openly and realistically at their problems and to use departmental resources , staff , accommodation and equipment to help them resolve these problems . |
| 30 | It can be seen straight away that the Faculty has an enormous task merely trying to help members keep up-to-date with all these changes , to help them interpret some of the more obscure elements and , wherever possible , to pool their combined knowledge to match the tax authorities ' ability to pool their knowledge of the activities of taxpayers and their advisers . |