Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] in the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 8 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 11 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're gon na gang bang them in the drive-ins , Harry . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 19 | He used to come to see me in the prison . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 22 | ‘ Captain Aranyos wants to see you in the south chapel of the Stefansdom at three o'clock , ’ she blurted before he had the opportunity to broach the subject . |
| 23 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 24 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 25 | He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live . |
| 26 | ‘ It has devastated everyone in the organisation . |
| 27 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 28 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 29 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
| 30 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |