Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] 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 | I was able to go to see her in hospital . |
| 4 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | You want to see me in gaol . |
| 8 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 9 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 10 | The first is to try to classify them in terms of the kinds of knowledge , procedures and criteria of judgement they involve . |
| 11 | You need n't think I 'd have come to see you in Brixton . |
| 12 | I can not want a man who wants to see me in gaol . |
| 13 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( 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 ) . |
| 17 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 18 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If one has to express it in percentage terms , somewhere between 10% and 49% . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 24 | Try to scan artwork as near to the size you want to use it in order to avoid taking up large amounts of memory and having to re-size with the desktop publishing software . |
| 25 | Well , Jenny needs to give him in writing what she wants to say . |
| 26 | This national scheme , which is supported by the Government , is designed to put you in touch with tenants in other local authorities ' areas who might be interested in exchanging homes with you . |
| 27 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 28 | She feels she is on the verge of some interesting illumination here , but has to abandon it in order to search for Brian , to ask him to fasten the back of her dress : if she does not leave soon , she will be late for her early arrival , and moreover she has promised to meet Esther Breuer at eight thirty precisely on the corner of Harley Street and Weymouth Street . |
| 29 | As it was American atomic attitudes in this period hardened British resolution not to be bullied out of the business and not to acquiesce in an American monopoly ; it encouraged her determination to be a nuclear power for the sake of the influence this was expected to give her in Washington ! |
| 30 | You may not need to do it in Scotland as well to the in England . |