Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frog eggs are about one to two millimetres in diameter and , like the chick , have enough yolk to enable them to grow to a stage when they can feed themselves . |
| 2 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 3 | ‘ Impressionable teenagers use the Arts Centre all the time and I do n't want to see them confronted by this sort of filth . |
| 4 | There 's something about them that makes me want to see them glazed with passion — ’ |
| 5 | I do n't want to see it end in tragedy . ’ |
| 6 | And frankly I think it and I hope to God that John I d I know he does n't want to see it happen to him , I hope to God it does n't . |
| 7 | And above all he does n't want to see it appearing in the Accounts . |
| 8 | You 've been good to me , Peter , I would n't want to see you hurt by having me around . ’ |
| 9 | Kindly do n't presume to issue me orders in my own house . ’ |
| 10 | You 'll have to wait to see what happens to the Famous Five until he can read it to you in his own inept fashion . |
| 11 | ‘ Daddy hates to see anybody sitting down doing nothing . ’ |
| 12 | Or at best everybody could just come up to but nobody would be creating re er a surplus , nobody would have the resources to invest to enable them to come above subsistence |
| 13 | How dear Maisie , or Natalia , and certainly Emma , would laugh to see him enslaved by an ankle after their more generous gifts of person yet enslaved he was . |
| 14 | She expected to see him gazing at Comfort with the admiration she deserved , but in fact he was looking down at Julia . |
| 15 | Maurice probably did n't want to risk her objecting to the surrender of Tristram 's letters . |
| 16 | He saw this diving towards Filfla trailing clouds of black and white smoke , but was then chased by another Messerschmitt and failed to see what happened to it . |
| 17 | In making his diplomatic push , Mr Bush agreed to continue US support for Unita , which has been receiving a covert aid programme of between $40-$50m ( £25-£30m ) a year . |
| 18 | One of ACE 's claims is that members will be able to develop systems based upon the same building blocks which are sufficiently differentiated to enable them to go after separate market niches . |
| 19 | I do n't want to encourage anybody to take on such a formidable task , just to say that I 'm glad I followed my heart and not my head for once . |
| 20 | It could be quite disconcerting for the archer whose bow disintegrated to find himself left with a handful of bits and pieces resembling a bundle of firewood . |
| 21 | Revolutionary this certainly was in concept , for it sought to displace what came to be called Capitalism by industrial collectivism , to secure that industry should be run by the workpeople for the workpeople , and through the agency of trade unionism . |
| 22 | ‘ We do n't want to find ourselves locked in here , that would be extremely nasty . |
| 23 | Most of your technical tutors will be seeing everything you do , and deriving what they need to know from it ; they do n't want to find you confused by criticism from senior students which might not be helpful to you at this point . |
| 24 | You would n't want to meet her coming towards you down a dark alley . |
| 25 | The guys will want to know what to do with him . ’ |
| 26 | Do n't ye want to know what happened to him ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't you want to know what happened to Phena ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 28 | My reply to these people , if they asked me what happened at the branch meeting I say , do you want to know what happened in the branch meeting ? |
| 29 | Community nurses and health visitors are paid a mileage allowance but you will also want to know who pays for what if you should break down or have an accident , and whether you can claim an allowance against income tax for general depreciation . |
| 30 | In contrast , the few policies aimed at older workers have been positively intended to encourage them to withdraw from the labour market . |