Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 2 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 4 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 5 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 6 | She could not imagine who might want to see her at this time on a Saturday morning . |
| 7 | They 'll want to see her for sure . ’ |
| 8 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
| 9 | Local councillor Eddie McEvilly said : ‘ I do n't really want to talk about conditions on the operation , because I do n't want to see it at all . ’ |
| 10 | It was so useful to have been on the road myself and to have experienced cold-calling , setting up new accounts , or merchandising accounts that did n't want to see you at that particular moment . |
| 11 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 12 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 13 | No doubt they will want to interview you at some time . |
| 14 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 15 | We pledge to continue to support them in that . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've sweated blood to get him to agree to see me at all . |
| 17 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 18 | to continue to provide them with that service . |
| 19 | Now do you want to provide them with any parking facilities off parking ? |
| 20 | ‘ I do not want to know you at all , Monsieur Lemarchand , ’ she stated firmly . |
| 21 | They do n't want to know you at any other time … but most of them are n't like that here . |
| 22 | He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable . |
| 23 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 24 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 25 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 26 | Now I want to see you in four weeks again . |
| 27 | I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 29 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |