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Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1	The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale .
2	‘ We 've heard them rustling about but they 're staying out of our way .
3	She had heard them come in very late .
4	My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point .
5	From the smaller to the greater , the patterns always hold true , and the Factory has taught me to watch out for them and respect them .
6	At the Mas Rose she hoped every day to see them riding down the white stony hillside track .
7	Still , it was great to see them go back into the wild when they were old enough . ’
8	If he does n't , we 'll do it for him , so I like to see them trying out grass for themselves .
9	There are people who are genuinely trying to make money for themselves and their families at car boot sales , so I think , you know , I do n't , I would n't like to see them stamped on altogether .
10	The banks are businesses too and we do not want to see them closed down . ’
11	It seemed a pity to see them going out of business . ’
12	The drives we put on against New Zealand were things that we had worked on and it was very satisfying to see them coming off , not just for the forwards but for the backs as well .
13	Now what sort of pay formula would you like to see them come up with ?
14	They went back to the Franz Joseph together — she liked everyone to see them walking off together when the performance was over .
15	The buggers want to see me go under .
16	She wanted to see me grow up , it was as simple as that , but it 's those simple things that are sometimes the hardest to accept . ’
17	I do n't want him to know we 've got divers aboard and I especially do n't want him to see me taking off with divers in the general direction of the Delos .
18	People have me in a little pocket of their minds in that role [ Ben Braddock ] and they do n't want to see me get out of it .
19	I only wish Tata had lived to see me take up my place at Bedford College .
20	This also encourages them to chase up the referees .
21	take better policy decisions by assisting them to work out the implications of their basic strategy in terms of policies in specific areas , to establish the relative priorities to be given to the different sectors of their programme as a whole , to identify those areas of policy in which new choices can be exercised and to ensure that the underlying implications of alternative courses of action are fully analysed and considered .
22	But biological weapons are unlikely to be much used on troops in combat , mainly because of the difficulties of getting the aerosols on to them without seeing them drift back on to those who released them .
23	I could do the English and the intelligence tests , but I was hopeless at mental arithmetic : for some reason my mind would go blank whenever I tried to visualise numbers instead of seeing them written down .
24	‘ People in Middlesbrough were used to seeing me walking around .
25	get that from up here now do you want me to clean out the chicken ?
26	Surely you do n't want me to give up my evenings too .
27	‘ Do you want me to give up racing ? ’
28	And the only thing I need to ask you about is that bloody great , bloody great memo , I 've said it so I 'll say it again it 's pinned up in my old tutor 's room what do you want me to put down on the document for the record of achievement on attendance ?
29	Hope he does n't want me to traipse about with Lisa .
30	Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting .