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Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I hate to lose you , but we 'll meet again soon , ’ she said .
2	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 .
3	I hate to burden you with this .
4	Here knowledge of material practices and social understanding combine to enable them to read the text in specific ways .
5	The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 .
6	Where feminist psychologists recognize social differences , they , like conventional psychologists , tend to treat them as psychological variables of the usual sort , controllable , and equivalent to each other .
7	Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm .
8	‘ You intend to see him , then ? ’
9	‘ I want to hear that from Garry , and I intend to see him , with or without your co-operation . ’
10	I fear to acknowledge it .
11	That it 's an zoom delete it .
12	‘ I hate to see them do that , but it is better than the children being trampled underfoot in the rush .
13	‘ I love animals and hate to see them killed , ’ said Clara McKay , 81 .
14	Also , I love animals and hate to see them suffer .
15	I hate to see it like that . ’
16	‘ And I hate to see you unhappy , and you wo n't feel better if you stay in and frowst by the fire all day .
17	‘ I hate to see you going home empty handed , ’ said Madame , and she gave him a package tied like a cake in neatly folded greaseproof paper .
18	" I had n't thought of that , but I hate to see you so cold . "
19	It can not make me change my mind , so if you intend using it use it and shoot me now .
20	‘ That is my assessment of the case , Madame , as I intend to report it to my commandant . ’
21	Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas .
22	His violations of truth and trust make him , for anyone who conceives of the human community as being based on mutual help , guilty of ingratitude , of breaking those bonds of reciprocity which make life possible .
23	There was enough money in her savings account to see her through for a while .
24	So you know again I tend to hit it downwards you see , but a lot of players do n't even er lot of players play their rolls like that .
25	But I told di man , do n't vorry , do n't vorry , I vill make you di best ‘ police force ’ in Glasgow .
26	Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program .
27	Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic .
28	Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top .
29	LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers .
30	We tend to see it from perhaps sort of Heathrow that you want to go in , into London because that 's where , where the links are , by roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Piccadilly line .