Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But explore all the options first , such as cost-cutting and restructuring borrowings , before calling in an insolvency practitioner : they tend to see everything in terms of insolvency legislation . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | You want to see me in gaol . |
| 4 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 5 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 6 | ‘ If you ever want to meet anyone in movies — ’ she began . |
| 7 | ( 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | you wan na see the spellings in here , you want to leave them in Ton |
| 11 | Now I want to spoil you in return . |
| 12 | In fact we 've just refused er the application er to change the use of that site to housing , or some of that site to housing , er for the very reason that we want to keep it in employment use and at the same meeting we also refused another site , another major employment site , erm and we want to keep that in employment use as well . |
| 13 | When they want to warm themselves in front of a fire they are not ashamed to lift up their kilts and display their private parts . |
| 14 | no , no , I , I , I just really want , cos I do n't think there 's any question of me this afternoon ruling on whether you 're right or not on these points , but I just er on second I thoughts I want to have them in mind |
| 15 | He says well if you want to pack it in love |
| 16 | Scott , it declared , ‘ wants a tight rein , and we hope to see it in Lord Palmerston 's hand ’ , but he should resign rather than undertake work in any other than that in which he has distinguished himself . |
| 17 | ‘ I hope to see you in Hong Kong , ’ he chuckled to the American Eagles . |
| 18 | ‘ I hope to see you in Hong Kong , ’ he chuckled to the American Eagles . |
| 19 | Of course many speakers have continued to use it casually , and in some spoken contexts almost invariably , but they tend to prefer he in writing . |
| 20 | Yet other varieties happen to find themselves in possession of new tricks : they turn out to be even better self-replicators than their predecessors and contemporaries . |
| 21 | Once people overcome their fears about computers and begin to use them in telecottages , they acquire their own equipment . |
| 22 | Sometimes Papert 's writings and his enthusiasm for changing the structure of education seem to place him in affinity with such educational radicals as Ivan Illich and Everett Reimer , but this is misleading . |
| 23 | Split red lentils , smaller and milder , cook even more quickly and soon turn to ‘ mush ’ — so keep an eye on them , if you intend to use them in salads . |
| 24 | He 's back tomorrow on Channel Four to anchor their weekly live coverage of the Italian league , the best club football in the world , and he said : ‘ This will be much more like the Premier League than what we like to call ours in England . ’ |
| 25 | They call her The Green Goddess , and Queen of the Greens ; they like to photograph her in supermarkets against the Ecover , looking wholesome and fresh , youthful but still somehow serious . |
| 26 | The latter point has been a cause of some concern because , in the 1980s , black kids continue to involve themselves in sport with a fervour which alarms many , fearful that blacks ' achievements can only reinforce traditional stereotyped images about blacks being adept at physical pursuits , but inept at intellectual ones . |
| 27 | Elderly ladies tend to cook themselves in front of an electric or gas fire for hours on end in an effort to keep warm . |
| 28 | Since Leopold ruled a small State and had neither fears nor ambitions so far as territorial changes were concerned ( he wished to establish the perpetual neutrality of the Grand Duchy as a tradition of European diplomacy , to give it more or less the status which Switzerland was to enjoy in the following century ) he was able to accept radical ideas and even try to realize them in practice in a way quite impossible to Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 29 | ‘ If I were you , I would go to the conference centre itself and ask to see someone in security . |
| 30 | We shall just introduce them now , but try to bear them in mind as you read on . |