Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is noticeable that the Russell-Copleston debate became embroiled in a discussion of necessary propositions , a discussion made necessary by Copleston 's desire to show Russell that the world is such that it must be the case that it has a Creator . |
| 2 | In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway . |
| 3 | Thomas of Sandwich subsequently became mayor of Bordeaux in 1289 , and became embroiled in a dispute with the burgesses which led to an appeal to the Parlement of Paris ; his place as seneschal of Ponthieu was taken by Richard de Pevensey . |
| 4 | Her latest pester-the-public project involves hanging outside a shoe repair shop and testing people 's trust by asking to take a copy of their house key . |
| 5 | If these events became regarded as a norm for science then public confidence would be threatened . |
| 6 | Dysentery became regarded as a norm of life at Verdun . |
| 7 | Fawcett soon became regarded as a dasher , but a dodgy proposition on defence . |
| 8 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 9 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 10 | I do n't want to go for a ride ! |
| 11 | ‘ But I do n't want to go for a sail ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ How could anyone not want to go for a sail on a day like this ? ’ |
| 13 | Although you may not want to go on a course , or can not afford to , it is a good idea to ask a friend or relative you feel comfortable with to play the part of the interviewer and let you have a dummy run . |
| 14 | Neither would Souness want to go as a failure . |
| 15 | Mrs Aggie , I do n't want to go to a school where I wo n't be able to get out and come home . |
| 16 | I wanted a drink , but I did n't want to go to a pub at that time of the evening , when the rush would be on , and the serious drinkers getting down to it . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ Do you want to go to a party ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Do you want to go to a party tomorrow night ? ’ he asked . |
| 19 | Why do you want to go to a party today ? |
| 20 | ‘ I would say to children , ‘ Do you want your father to come home or do you want to go to a funeral as an orphan ? ’ |
| 21 | She did n't want to go to a dentist ; even her own dentist scared her , and it could n't be much — her teeth were perfect . |
| 22 | An Enfield clerical family took in a great-grandmother in her nineties for her last two years : ‘ she did n't want to go in a home and she wrote to my mother and asked if she could possibly look after her . |
| 23 | Whilst discussing Derwentwater he discourages drawing from a boat or small island , ‘ the passion for boat prospects is owing to the delusive fascinations of the water . ’ |
| 24 | That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of . |
| 25 | ‘ I hate to sound like a detective , but there was a puddle outside the front gate and only one new set of tyre-marks between the Saturday night and the Sunday night . |
| 26 | If the former involves drawing on a richness of tacit knowledge the latter is necessarily concerned with reversing this process , ie with making explicit the tacit richness of design activity . |
| 27 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | The investment they make goes into a fund combining equities , fixed interest and cash . |
| 29 | He was n't given too long a sentence providing he agreed to go into a clinic — you know — to be dried out and cured . |
| 30 | and you know how they say to you at times oh thanks ever so much , I 've never heard anybody that would cover a thing in quite so much detail , I mean you do n't want to sound like a machine that 's pumping out information |