Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bratby was intrigued by Minton and soon after he got to know him painted a huge picture on paper , entitled ‘ Homage to John Minton ’ . |
| 2 | We want to see them receive a contract of employment which would extend their rights , particularly in relation to health and safety . |
| 3 | next Monday I want to see you have a happy Christmas . |
| 4 | I long to see him become a Giant . |
| 5 | Many people who took out their fireplaces several years ago now find they want to restore them to have a real open fire or some acceptable substitute like gas logs or a gas coal effect . |
| 6 | In part 2 the author has given you the option of turning off those infuriating flashing lasers and electric grills , which I found helped me to think a little easier but , alas , did n't help me in solving the problem . |
| 7 | This is very much a product of his legal background which , in a career spanning 40 years as a lawyer , has seen him spurn a more lucrative profession to concentrate on the injusticesthat accompany bureaucracies like the Civil Service . |
| 8 | A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed . |
| 9 | And , in an oblique attack on the partiality of judges , she has said she wants a commission to review appointments to the higher levels of the judiciary . |
| 10 | Germany pulled out of the joint project in July , but finance minister Theo Waigel has said he favours a scaled-down version of the plane costing £36 million to avoid job losses in times of recession . |
| 11 | Thus , if the Moon today has a small liquid iron core then either its small size or the lack of a solid inner core or the slow axial spin of the Moon ( sidereal period 27.32 days ) has prevented it generating an appreciable magnetic field . |
| 12 | Call me suspicious , but this implies that the crampon , far from adhering steadily to the spot upon which its owner has chosen to commit his or her weight , has decided it prefers an altogether different rock and has gone for a bit of a slide . |
| 13 | ‘ The coroner 's court has instructed me to obtain a photograph of a young girl … who will never wake up again . ’ |
| 14 | Hindley has made him become a poor , dull farm worker . |
| 15 | The sight of that blood has made me feel a whole lot better . |
| 16 | But with more than 50mpg available and the possibility of good deals to reduce the outlay , the cheapest Fiesta has made me take a long hard look at the lavishly equipped hot hatch we use as a shopping car . |
| 17 | I started buying every issue of Tennis World after Capriati 's looks and sheer dedication in every match she has played , brought me into tennis and she has made me become an addict . |
| 18 | The recession has made it take a hard look at the cost of law and at the attitude of big London firms that it 's used for more than fifty years . |
| 19 | I do n't want to ring your mum and say look we had a spot of bother but now we 're back in Caracas and Matt 's dead , yes , you heard it on the news but I do n't want to talk about it . |
| 20 | One of the former Scotland manager 's old teams , Airdrie , visit Somerset Park today — on a day when the Premier Division clubs have no matches as Scotland play on Wednesday — lying third in the First Division and keen to maintain form which has helped them overcome an uncertain beginning . |
| 21 | Although he did not wish to have his name mentioned fearing his surgery would be swamped by expectant mothers , he has helped us write an eight point guide to having your baby at home . |
| 22 | SPORT 'S role as a major employer and contributor to government coffers has helped it to discover a latent power and a voice of its own , discarding its traditionally apolitical posture in the process . |
| 23 | The following pages of Charts are designed to help you select a mortgage lender . |
| 24 | Goblin has harnessed the power of steam to maximum effect with the Steamatic , a new , versatile machine designed to help you tackle a wide variety of household cleaning problems . |
| 25 | They keep on going on in the negative sense and the bulldozing here , has got you digging a big hole , and you eventually fall into it . |
| 26 | Hewlett-Packard Co is amongst Unix vendors Microsoft Corp has approached to help it develop a Unix version of Microsoft Mail : Microsoft expects Mail could be running under Open Look and Motif by year-end , though observers are sceptical given that a promised OS/2 Presentation Manager version has yet to appear . |
| 27 | Er , and I mean if you want to buy you know a few hundred of it then fine , you know you could b it 'll do the job , you know if it 's , it 's not a , a thing that er |
| 28 | He started taking his own photographs to publicise his collections when he got impatient with photographers who did not understand what he was trying to say ; this has lead him to launch a parallel career as a photographer and his work is much in demand by magazines who like his candid portraits of such luminaires as Caroline of Monaco . |
| 29 | I 've got some names and I want to use them to do a deal . ’ |
| 30 | The absence of her own , however , has enabled her to spend a lifetime amusing and instructing other people 's . |