Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked to see the images in the church , of which there was so much talk . |
| 2 | What interests her , apparently , is not the remark itself , but ‘ the degree to which the piece of recall ’ — her piece of recall , presumably — ‘ failed to affect the novel in any way ’ . |
| 3 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 4 | She did n't want to see the hurt in his eyes , in case it made her soften and forgive him . |
| 5 | That 's one of the reasons why they do n't like doing this kind of thing that the did this morning , because they do n't want to affect the project in any way , and I think the management takes advantage of that . |
| 6 | I greeted the first man to approach the car in my broken French and to my surprise , he asked if I would prefer to continue the conversation in English . |
| 7 | In order to continue to monitor the developments in the English vocabulary from day to day and from year to year , it is essential for the Dictionary Department to continue to collect such quotations . |
| 8 | Police investigating Katie 's death will also want to interview the suspect in London . |
| 9 | The tendency for prescriptive ideologies to inhibit and distort responses in situations where informants are conscious of a competing set of standard norms became evident when Labov pressed his questions with people who had been heard using the construction in conversation . |
| 10 | Russia , in helping to restore the museums in other former republics after the war , gave them works both from its own museum collections and from war booty . |
| 11 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 12 | The jury was told that Paul admitted using the bat in a game of baseball in Battersea Park just a few days after the killing . |
| 13 | Scientific language is theory-laden : in using it , one is taught to see the world in a particular way . |
| 14 | As a mode of explanation it involves bringing the outside in , and linking the particular to the general . |
| 15 | ‘ This is one more example of our ability and willingness to continue to support the UN in the cause of peace . ’ |
| 16 | It was quite dark when Breeze let herself into the house , and for a second she was dazzled by the electric light , and failed to see the suitcases in the hall . |
| 17 | ‘ Charles has at times given the impression that he would prefer to renounce the throne in favour of his son . |
| 18 | Having some 1979 data on custody practices and prisoner interviews he sought to replicate the study in 1986/7 to assess the influence of the legislation on police practice . |
| 19 | I had already run three miles , and my boots were too heavy for sprinting — besides I did not want to catch the gang in front . |
| 20 | After a long campaign to set the record straight , including an investigation by a House of Lords committee , Salter was eventually vindicated in 1990 when the Department of Energy agreed to adjust the figures in its official literature . |
| 21 | A surgical colleague , G. E. Linskog , agreed to try the treatment in human patients . |
| 22 | The doctors made monoclonal antibodies against the attacking white cells in the transfused blood and Bryan 's parents agreed to try the treatment in a desperate attempt to save him . |
| 23 | Edith Durham sought to redress the balance in dispatches for The Times and the Manchester Guardian and through indefatigable lobbying in Whitehall and elsewhere . |
| 24 | Ungar and his group went on to endeavour to purify the component in the brain extract which , they claimed , carried the information about fear of the dark ’ . |
| 25 | Time and again women failed to find the words in which to frame their questions , knowing only that the language available to them did not fit . |
| 26 | Each agrees to accept the dividend in full satisfaction in consideration of every other creditor who is a party to the agreement doing so . |
| 27 | Feeder and maggot expected to provide the winner in this two day event on Lough Muckno , County Monaghan . |
| 28 | You want to see the birds in the park . |
| 29 | Let us say , though , that you simply want to see the work in print . |
| 30 | Referring to the range of Zichy 's work , of the museum he said , ‘ It will perhaps entice those who want to see the ocean in a drop of water ’ . |