Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 2 | I did think about it and asked to see him again , and once again he visited me with Patrick Nairne . |
| 3 | After he had been out of work for months his telephone rang and a manager asked to see him . |
| 4 | I asked to see him , but they said no . ’ |
| 5 | My contact with the family had lapsed for a while when the head asked to see me to request help in explaining the Statementing procedures to Mrs Singh . |
| 6 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 7 | Before I left Ruritania , Princess Flavia asked to see me again , and Fritz took me to her . |
| 8 | All of these meetings required careful preparation and I was relieved when my election team agreed with my general tactics , although they added that I must make myself available for private talks with any colleague who asked to see me . |
| 9 | Anyway , the marshal asked to see you as soon as you recovered . |
| 10 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 11 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 12 | She hesitated a moment and then said , " Matthew asked to see you as soon as you arrived . |
| 13 | I do n't want to miss them growing up . ’ |
| 14 | In any case , the Shetland spring would soon be upon us — and I would n't want to miss it . |
| 15 | You do n't want to miss it , ’ sniffs Molly , dabbing at her cheeks with a scrap of peach-coloured lace … |
| 16 | Karen did not want to miss it , any more . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't want to miss it . ’ |
| 18 | Did n't want to miss it . |
| 19 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 20 | ‘ I hate to lose you , but we 'll meet again soon , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Frog eggs are about one to two millimetres in diameter and , like the chick , have enough yolk to enable them to grow to a stage when they can feed themselves . |
| 22 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 23 | No I 'll see how I 'm feeling the thing is I do want to go to enjoy it . |
| 24 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 25 | Gave a wondering smile which made Léonie want to hit her . |
| 26 | ‘ But why should she want to hit you ? ’ |
| 27 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 28 | So I did n't want to burden her by being awkward about it , make her feel bad about it , equally I have n't really thanked her . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 30 | But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all . |