Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Casual observers tend to see what they expect to see , and naked-eye observations of the full Moon are a case in point . |
| 2 | Late risers always exasperate early risers like myself , who hate to miss what they know is the best part of the day . |
| 3 | You pressed me to condemn myself , yet you fear to confirm something which we both know . ’ |
| 4 | Take legal advice if you want to , but I intend to know what it was that your uncle confided to you . ’ |
| 5 | I personally do n't get any joy from seeing people reproduce their records exactly on stage ; I want to see something which is special for the night . ’ |
| 6 | I think they 'd say that they 'd like to see an officer in a car because they do n't see anybody , what they really mean they want to see somebody they can talk |
| 7 | I want to see what they 'll do . |
| 8 | I want to see what they are . ’ |
| 9 | I had a what 's it today , from , something about the over fifties you see , so , cos they found it cost , it cost , it costs eight pounds a year to join you see , you know , you know , eh , pay on , so I 've joined it , I want to see what they 've got to say you know , you get , we get a lot of things you know |
| 10 | ‘ I want to see what you look like . ‘ |
| 11 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 12 | Carson said , ‘ I want to see what I 'm buying , first . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm sorry , Nicky Scott Wilson , but if you want to see me you 'd better make proper arrangements . ’ |
| 14 | Every time you want to see me you have to make an excuse , have n't you , tell a fib of some sort ? |
| 15 | Olympic champion Chris Boardman is going for it he 's riding in a twenty five mile time trial and will be setting off from Cumnor at six o clock … if you want to see him he 'll be wizzing up and down the A420 and the A34 … |
| 16 | So I decided : if anyone does come , I want to see who it is before I show myself . |
| 17 | So I said , well , I have my thing here in Salzburg ; if they want to see it they must make the effort to come here . |
| 18 | Police want to interview anyone who was in the wine bar on Wednesday evening who may have seen a woman drinking with a man . |
| 19 | And want to find something you 've got to root through everything else , you 've got to move everything else and then when you want to come and find something else , you 've moved it . |
| 20 | If you want to find him you 'll have to go across the field there . |
| 21 | And , like I said , I want to know everything you hear , what anyone 's got to say , from the pimps to the tarts through to the doormen at the clip-joints and the managers of restaurants . |
| 22 | The Captain was saying to the Sub-lieutenant , ‘ I want to know everything she can tell us about the Maxwell girl , family , friends , habits , etcetera — everything . |
| 23 | I have shaken hands with a great many friends , but there are some things I want to know which no-one seems able to explain . |
| 24 | What what have you got tell me what you 've been ironing Marjorie I want to know what what sort of things ? |
| 25 | I want to know what they meant by sending a son of mine to — ’ |
| 26 | The other of course we have to know what they want in the we want to know what they want in their ad . |
| 27 | And then there are others in the market who simply want to know what we make . |
| 28 | We want to know what her paintings are about — how images of Penelope , Cornelia Mother of the Gracchi , Cleopatra , Andromache and many others were being used to explore the possibility of representing women 's intellect , courage , political judgement as well as their passions , pride or grief in that contradictory and fluid moment of western European history . |
| 29 | ‘ I want to know what she was like , and I want to clear up some questions which have been puzzling me and which do n't appear on the record . ’ |
| 30 | I want to know what she was doing in your — Oh ! ’ |