Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although I found it hard to understand that you did n't want to meet her again that evening , I accepted that she was possibly ‘ not your type ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Franca , darling , I want to see you very much , you know that , but — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ As long as you remember that I want to see you as little as possible . |
| 4 | I had n't expected to see you here this evening . ’ |
| 5 | I want to try him again this evening . ’ |
| 6 | Could it have been one of the footpads who tried to ambush me earlier that day ? |
| 7 | they say oh tax is too high , I mean Labour want to put it up any way , but by the by , this answered them any way , what they say is oh its too high , erm even the American tax is four per cent , who gives a dam , because the thing is in America what you 're loosing , what you gain in your tax you have to pay out through the nose for health care |
| 8 | The E-Type Mortgage is a special low cost endowment designed to give you as much help as possible once you have fought your way out of the jungle . |
| 9 | And the benefit is , we want to do it again this year , that 's great ! |
| 10 | I want to do it as much because of him , because he did n't get the chance to do it . ’ |
| 11 | It was a trick and she knew it , to ask a personal question then appear to forget it so any answer would seem to be volunteered with all the humiliation of confession . |
| 12 | He has to call him again this morning . |
| 13 | Then if you want if you want to invite them back that 's right , yes . |
| 14 | They should have waited two years more , Henry thought bitterly , until the people had come to hate me even more than they hated Richard . |
| 15 | The limitation only comes if you want to blow it up any bigger than 8x10 — then you 've got to use large format ’ . |
| 16 | Later she phoned to tell me how much lighter she felt , as if a burden had somehow been lifted from her shoulders . |
| 17 | He promised to bring her back some Edinburgh rock — ‘ sweets to the sweet ’ . |
| 18 | Carrie was afraid at first that Albert would despise such a babyish pastime but he seemed to enjoy it as much as Nick did , shouting with laughter when he tripped over bumps in the ice and not wanting to stop , even when she said it was time they were going . |
| 19 | She did n't really expect to see him again that night . |
| 20 | He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her . |
| 21 | It 's practically built now , the roof is just going on , and we hope to open it later this year . |
| 22 | It is wasteful simply to flash the light into the air and hope to pick it up some distance away since most of the light spreads out in space ( compare this with radio communication ) — although this method does have its uses over very short-distances . |
| 23 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |
| 24 | One day my sister drew a T , and seemed to want it very much . |
| 25 | The herring looked delicious but he was n't at all sure he was going to enjoy it as much as he 'd thought . |
| 26 | So she said oh she has n't got to wear them as much now she said her eyes have improved , you know , |
| 27 | I would have found that too painful , I would have had to sacrifice them too much ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ But I would like to see you again this evening to take a fuller statement . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd like to meet him very much . ’ |
| 30 | Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ? |