Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you want to see me about something ? ’ said Wilcox impatiently . |
| 2 | ‘ You want to see me about something ? ’ |
| 3 | When you want to pass it to somebody else in the press ? |
| 4 | The media can not operate without input and you will need to provide them with something of interest to impart . |
| 5 | If you want to challenge him about anything you had better have your facts right . |
| 6 | The cost of weapons often means they are in potentially short supply , all the more so because once commanders find that a weapon works , they want to use it for everything . |
| 7 | Just in case they want to put you on something else . ’ |
| 8 | But he did n't need to give it to anyone else — no one else was flawed in the way Denis was , no one else 's loyalty gave grounds for doubt and therefore for the most unsavoury of tests . |
| 9 | Knowing you , Jesus , brings so much joy and hope into my life that I want to share you with everyone I meet , |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the ultimate defence of literature against the culturalist or contextualizing pressures which want to turn it into something else is usually along aesthetic lines . |
| 11 | She never shared her inner thoughts with anyone , not even her friends at school who had come to regard her as something of an enigma . |
| 12 | You may turn into one of those driving , ambitious wives who are not glad of their husband 's contentment but want to change him into something he is not . |
| 13 | ‘ What I do n't understand is why you appear to blame me for something someone else thought and said . ’ |
| 14 | I will tell you about one or two just to get you going but it would be unsporting to warn you about everything . |
| 15 | Following an appeal by UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar for a cease-fire over civilian-populated areas , this was accepted by both sides and the secretary-general now sought to widen it into something that would give effect to the Security Council resolutions , call for an end to the fighting altogether . |
| 16 | The theory behind the sections is that , if an owner of goods agrees to sell them to someone and retains title but nevertheless lets the buyer have possession , that owner must bear the consequences ( i.e. loss of title ) if the buyer then sells and delivers the goods to an innocent sub-purchaser . |
| 17 | I dare n't have done if I had n't er oh oh I know once my my doctor came to see me about something and there was erm a lot of people used to use er some pills oh what were they called , little round pills , when at the monthly periods they used to use them , oh Doctor Johnson 's , Doctor somebody 's pills , now they would have the effect of er your period you would see more than you usually did . |
| 18 | He looked mulish now , with his hard-eyed expression that she dreaded , that seemed to treat her as nothing . |
| 19 | Surely these workers are provided with Health and Safety equipment and should they not be made to wear them by someone in authority ? |
| 20 | It seemed to remind him of something . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not a child , you know , although you seem to treat me like one . |
| 22 | six two O twos , and we 're not going to replace it with anything , and we have an opportunity if we go for it now that we could replace them with sixteen double O fours and the projections are |
| 23 | Erlich had offered to help them with anything they might shout for , and he had been turned down . |
| 24 | You know , they 're not going to do it for nothing . |
| 25 | However I would like to leave you with something to think about during the day . |
| 26 | I did not plan to submit it to anyone . |
| 27 | ‘ If I do it for you , I 've got to do it for everyone … |
| 28 | You , you just see what each other are doing , because I 'm going to put you into lots of groups in a minute . |
| 29 | Among the counsellors whom he has , none enjoys such importance that he would dare to contradict him in anything or be of another opinion . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps you 'd like to exchange them for something else in my shop . |