Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | We pledge to continue to support them in that . |
| 3 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 4 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 5 | Now I want to see you in four weeks again . |
| 6 | I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’ |
| 7 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |
| 8 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 9 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 10 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 11 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 12 | It is not recommended to exercise her in this condition , because of the unwelcomed attention she will receive , and the risk of her becoming pregnant . |
| 13 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 14 | ‘ You have come to challenge me in mortal combat . ’ |
| 15 | No , well you want to put it in that front lawn . |
| 16 | How many wonem women would you need to do it in six hours ? |
| 17 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 18 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |
| 19 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 20 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 21 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 22 | ‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’ |
| 23 | Nutrition is the process by which the body acquires all the foodstuffs it needs to keep it in good working order and converts them into energy , new body tissue and those substances necessary to keep all the body processes ( metabolism ) going . |
| 24 | Now somehow I want you to break out of that and to , as I say , shout it from the rooftops , because in the end , the public applause from that will protect you from those who might seek to neuter you in that role . |
| 25 | Mummy me want to eat them in that high chair , you staying out here ? |
| 26 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 27 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 28 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 29 | I want to get you in three-quarter profile . ’ |
| 30 | If they want to join us in this enterprise , so much the better . |