Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 2 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 3 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 6 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 7 | That this person should harbour aggressive feelings towards you is unimaginable , but then suddenly , she goes to poke you in the eye — and you blink . |
| 8 | The superintendents … have at least stopped using it in a noisy and disagreeable way |
| 9 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 10 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 11 | The message from my friend is this : that you should keep that pretty little nose out of things that do n't concern you if you do n't want to find yourself in a whole load of trouble . |
| 12 | This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell . |
| 13 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 14 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 15 | The liberal-historians , on the other hand , tend to find themselves in a somewhat more tricky position . |
| 16 | When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities . |
| 17 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 18 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 19 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 20 | Maggie clung to the privacy of her room , as small children do to their teddy bears ; she never invited her friends there , preferring to contain them in the large sitting-room below . |
| 21 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 22 | You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're gon na gang bang them in the drive-ins , Harry . |
| 26 | Stuart is too good to be kept on the sidelines at a time when England have looked to include him in the B squad as the next stage of his international career . |
| 27 | You want to sacrifice yourself in a bloody revolution that will have no hope of success , and you want to sacrifice hundreds , perhaps thousands of young lives with you ! |
| 28 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 29 | He used to come to see me in the prison . |
| 30 | The elderly lady found a private moment in which to invite her hostess to come to see her in the room she occupied in her daughter 's house . |