Example sentences of "[noun prp] wish see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Miss Havisham wishes to see me , ’ answered Mr Pumblechook , a little confused . |
| 2 | Mr Jaggers told me Miss Havisham wished to see me on business , so I said I would go the next day . |
| 3 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 4 | There was a moral dilemma here , since what was good for the survival of the colony was harmful for others in a society which Makarenko wished to see participating in group ownership on collective lines . |
| 5 | F. E. Hutchinson wishes to see scholars using " a thoroughly careful apparatus criticus of the text " . |
| 6 | AMES wishes to see the FDR-FMLN adopt a " Minimum Women 's Programme " as part of its published manifesto and believes that as far as conditions permit , it is necessary to work for change now . |
| 7 | Editor , — Like Michelle Jacobs , the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain wishes to see the introduction of child resistant containers for liquid medicines . |
| 8 | Yoshida wished to see Japan restored to true independence but he did not wish to see Japanese armed forces re-created . |
| 9 | In truth , all that can be said is that , in both the Free Presbyterian Church and in the UPV , there were a small number of people ( none of whom were figures of any stature in the Church ) who were prepared to abet others in the commission of crimes to further the aims which the vast majority of people in the Church and UPV wished to see promoted by less violent means . |
| 10 | Representing the ‘ degenerate youth ’ in Mrs Whitehouse 's litany of folk devils was Richard Neville , who , as one of the defendants in the OZ trial , represented the antithesis of all that Mrs Whitehouse wished to see in modern youth . |
| 11 | Then he looked up sharply and , revealing more of the contents of his mouth than Kelly wished to see , said , ‘ Well , get on with it then . ’ |
| 12 | Signor Silvio wishes to see you . ’ |
| 13 | He asserted that the USA wished to see Israel 's " qualitative military superiority " over its neighbours maintained . |
| 14 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |