Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 2 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 3 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 4 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 6 | cos I did n't fancy eating it like that and er she goes , I told her give us a piece of some of that wrapping you know |
| 7 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She could not imagine who might want to see her at this time on a Saturday morning . |
| 10 | They 'll want to see her for sure . ’ |
| 11 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
| 12 | Local councillor Eddie McEvilly said : ‘ I do n't really want to talk about conditions on the operation , because I do n't want to see it at all . ’ |
| 13 | It was so useful to have been on the road myself and to have experienced cold-calling , setting up new accounts , or merchandising accounts that did n't want to see you at that particular moment . |
| 14 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 15 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 16 | No doubt they will want to interview you at some time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Given , let let's say y'know somebody of a status goes to see somebody of equivalent status wait so it 's it 's about the distance , yeah . |
| 19 | Where possible social/cultural visits will be arranged to include something of special professional interest to the individual . |
| 20 | The starting dose was adjusted to induce one to two bowel movements per day , loose enough to ensure complete daily emptying of the lower bowel and prevent pain or stool soiling , or both . |
| 21 | We pledge to continue to support them in that . |
| 22 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 23 | They would n't have allowed them , you know , did n't want to kill themselves like that . |
| 24 | That anyone should want to kill anyone on this tender lovely evening was a concept beyond the understanding of all of them . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've sweated blood to get him to agree to see me at all . |
| 26 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 27 | to continue to provide them with that service . |
| 28 | Units which sought to establish themselves outside such a plan would not only not receive public money ; they would also not qualify for any other public benefits . |
| 29 | Now do you want to provide them with any parking facilities off parking ? |
| 30 | ‘ We do n't want to provide anything of that sort just yet . |