Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newspaper asked to see any responsible official — none was available . |
| 2 | Having said that he 's been out that long you know Alan and Cooper he 'll not want to miss any more football surely ? |
| 3 | The Convention , partly drawing on United Kingdom bilateral conventions , sought to harmonise these different concepts by providing a procedural device acceptable to all systems . |
| 4 | You will also want to preserve some well-structured meadows where stock can run in winter without too much poaching . |
| 5 | Where objects are deliberately unique it may be that they are intended to signify some generic concept of uniqueness , such as in art ; the object is then both an individual form and an example of a larger category to which it must be related . |
| 6 | My stomach muscles were up to it , but I did n't want to lose any more teeth . |
| 7 | As it 's turned out , it 's not efficient because the the ray dome spent a tremendous amount of time moving from one country to the other , there 's no doubt about that and before production we would want to see that particular nonsense removed and the whole thing made a lot more efficient , but for one or two development batch ray domes then you know , they 'll just have to learn from that lesson . |
| 8 | I do n't want to see another fucking rhinestone as long as I live ! ’ |
| 9 | For a moment he wished he had n't come : he did n't want to see this new Carrie . |
| 10 | This last view prevailed as the Commission rejected an intermediate third party status which would take account of this distinction , preferring to see all third parties in an identical legal position . |
| 11 | I failed to arrange any stereotypical symbol of masculinity in the porch where all visitors would see it instantly : a pair of size ten wellingtons , a cricket fixture list , a rifle perhaps . |
| 12 | The parents did not want to attend any more sessions and treatment was therefore terminated . |
| 13 | But , she argues , ‘ Kant , himself a humane man , does not want to issue this general licence for redirected aggression . |
| 14 | Situated right in the centre of the town and directly facing Malcesine 's picturesque harbour , the Centrale is perfectly placed to enjoy this attractive lakeside resort . |
| 15 | Yesterday 's action has probably ended any prospect of the UNHCR helping to monitor any compulsory repatriation to Vietnam . |
| 16 | An unfinished coffin on black tressels , which stood in the middle of the shop , looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him , every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object : from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head , to drive him mad with terror . |
| 17 | He half expected to see some naked tourist in the corner , bound and gagged . |
| 18 | ‘ If I do , will you say that if I do n't want to risk any similar events the solution is for me to move ? ’ she responded . |
| 19 | When subjects are interrupted on going to sleep and asked to report any mental activity whatsoever they usually have something to say about what was going on in their minds . |
| 20 | Bob Henry , you must be aware of some of the criticisms which were levelled at the companies which were put out by arts associations , where they say really it 's very self-indulgent and nobody much goes to see this particular type of dance group . |
| 21 | Courses tend to accommodate all these categories of biological , social , and political experience under the idealized name of ‘ women ’ , and to gloss over the differences and overlaps between them . |
| 22 | Early anatomists sought to arrange all living things linearly , on a single ‘ ladder of nature ’ : man was about half-way up , with angels , archangels , and powers above him , and a sequence of animals below . |
| 23 | Where he was intellectually confused was that he failed to see any close connection between the economic stance of his Government and its industrial problems . |
| 24 | Nelson has been struggling to implement this grand vision ever since but , in the course of his work , he established the hypertext model as a means of getting around a huge database . |
| 25 | The bottom line with Motif , he argues , is that Sun does n't want to support any more toolkits . |
| 26 | Of course we must have cartwheels and the maiden to whose lot it had fallen to perform this important feature of the dance so very neatly and prettily is recalled . |
| 27 | In their protest they sought to restore some political coals to Newcastle : the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320 committed the lay and ecclesiastical nobles of Scotland to support Robert Bruce , who stood against proud Edward 's army , and sent him homeward to think again . |
| 28 | As early as 1920 , therefore , a special commission on the history of the party and the October revolution was set up and empowered to gather all relevant documentary material — from party archives to the records of the tsarist secret police and the memoirs of participants in the great events . |
| 29 | However this sketch hardly rises above a ‘ Dallas'-type description and Stotland failed to provide any empirical grounding for his arguments . |
| 30 | Gordon Parkes , the firm 's head of human resources , said : ‘ Some current job roles are being discontinued and new more appropriate roles have been developed to meet these increased demands from the market place . |