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

No	Sentence
1	I hate to burden you with this .
2	I hate to see it like that . ’
3	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 .
4	Oh you want to see me in four weeks ?
5	But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ?
6	Now I want to see you in four weeks again .
7	I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’
8	‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam .
9	You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that .
10	‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’
11	Say you 've got a report about a small red car , and you want to compare it with all the other small red cars that have been reported in the area .
12	While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study .
13	I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes .
14	Okay , what I 'm going to do now is I 'm going to split you in , into groups , I want to split you into two groups , we could have up to you , and the dividing line will be you and then at the back there .
15	So how much will th if you want to replace them by one pipe how much will this pipe have ?
16	The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage .
17	I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth .
18	I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth .
19	I want to help them to enlightened self-expression , and to develop their imaginations — to rid themselves of repressions through self-expression .
20	So you want to avoid it at all costs in release three of four .
21	Efforts to maximize women 's achievement arousal and self-esteem , for instance , frequently involve presenting them with social rather than intellectual stimuli .
22	Then I would tell myself such ideas were unreasonable : why would an American half-poet want to betray me to any government agency ?
23	For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word .
24	‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added .
25	‘ If you want to put it like that , yes . ’
26	No , well you want to put it in that front lawn .
27	‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’
28	Erm I 've mentioned accessibility , I would raise that again , I 'm a non-driver erm it 's easy to hop in a car and get from here to Chelmsford , if you want to do it by public transport it is a nightmare erm the meeting here on , on Monday which was very poorly attended , and I understand that 's been the pattern right across the area , and I do n't think the health authority is that interested in finding out what people have thought to be honest !
29	But we feel so ill at ease with silence that we want to fill it with endless clatter and talk about ourselves .
30	On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat .