Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you want to see me in prison ? ’ |
| 2 | You are lucky enough to have Bella here to teach you , and your mother also , and as you know , I have undertaken to instruct you in history , since I am the one who has seen such a lot of it , as it were face to face . |
| 3 | But explore all the options first , such as cost-cutting and restructuring borrowings , before calling in an insolvency practitioner : they tend to see everything in terms of insolvency legislation . |
| 4 | I was able to go to see her in hospital . |
| 5 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 6 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 7 | You 're gon na want to support someone in groups are n't you ? |
| 8 | You 're gon na want to support someone in groups with the changes coming on board , know what I mean ? |
| 9 | But in the early stages of his reign , as he sought to establish himself in quarrels with some of his more powerful vassals , Philip relied heavily upon aid from Henry II and his sons , from the family which he was to do so much to tear apart . |
| 10 | The analyst contended that " studies that find age differences ( among teenagers ) tend to find them in measures that are sensitive to socio-economic factors such as the prenatal complications of toxaemia and anaemia , rather than in biologically constrained outcomes of labour and delivery " . |
| 11 | You want to see me in gaol . |
| 12 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 13 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 14 | The first is to try to classify them in terms of the kinds of knowledge , procedures and criteria of judgement they involve . |
| 15 | You need n't think I 'd have come to see you in Brixton . |
| 16 | I can not want a man who wants to see me in gaol . |
| 17 | Although the City Code does not have the force of law , those who wish to take advantage of the facilities of the securities markets in the UK are expected to conduct themselves in matters relating to takeovers according to the City Code . |
| 18 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If you ever want to meet anyone in movies — ’ she began . |
| 20 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 21 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 22 | ( c ) the offeror receives a binding commitment from the merchant bank to pay cash to accepting shareholders who elect to receive it in return for the offeror procuring the allotment to the merchant bank ( or , as directed , sub-underwriters ) of the consideration shares ( by means of the nominations received from accepting shareholders ) . |
| 23 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 24 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 25 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 26 | However , FreeHand is simpler to use for the amateur or casual artist and this may be all the motivation he or she needs to buy it in preference to Illustrator 88 . |
| 27 | If one has to express it in percentage terms , somewhere between 10% and 49% . |
| 28 | This structure had for long been partially responsible for delay in their legal recognition , since the civil law had not yet come to express it in terms it could comprehend . |
| 29 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 30 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |