Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [verb] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it was not pure ocular seeing , or I should have seen her as a girl of the age which I have now reached . |
| 2 | I wrapped it up or you could have seen it . |
| 3 | ‘ So this William is probably not much younger than you , or you 'd remember seeing him around . ’ |
| 4 | Where he 'd last seen him . |
| 5 | Is Jobson really 30 years old ? 2 million quid seems an awful lot of money for a 30 year old , although I would like to see us buy a really top class centre back . |
| 6 | It is midnight and after great difficulty I managed with my little bit of French to convey to my dancing partner of the evening that I would like to see her home . |
| 7 | Yes I w I I would think so I mean it it wo n't occur in five minutes of course erm and I I would still say that I would like to see them in the six yard box more often . |
| 8 | It really is something that I would like to see us achieve in the future and if this can be brought forward by meeting the developer down there , then I would be , certainly be in favour of that and I would certainly like , and this is what we said at this meeting , to find out a little more detail of exactly what they were offering but we have to be minded all the time , as I said again , is how we 're going to acquire permission to go over one or two different land owners ' lands . |
| 9 | You 'd better warn him that I 'll expect to see him some time tomorrow , if he does n't feel up to an interview this evening , that is ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But understand , from my side , that I 'd like to see her once a fortnight , if it 's just for an hour , and that whatever holidays the other bairns have , she 's got to have the same . |
| 11 | It was dark , by then , but they have them new electric lights there , so I must have seen him . |
| 12 | Once I could have seen them off by asserting that I had no interest in such things , preferring to live from one day to the next , unfettered by possessions and responsibilities . |
| 13 | Not that she would have seen it as any sacrifice that she had neither husband nor child . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's only , when I suggested to Rosie that she might like to see you … . ’ |
| 15 | Of the driver it would be reasonable to say that she must have seen them but she has forgotten about the pigeons and just did n't notice the lights and roadworks . |
| 16 | It was so obvious that he marvelled that none should have seen it before him . |
| 17 | So is that I mean to what extent do you feel erm the ch the church generally has moved along the road that you 'd like to see it ? |
| 18 | ‘ Are you quite sure , then , that you will come to see him ? ’ |
| 19 | I 'm very sorry , ’ said Breeze sedately , ‘ that you should have seen me in that cowardly moment . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's only that we 'd like to see you happy … ’ |
| 21 | Just above , the feature inlay as Mercier paints it is worthy of comment , chiefly because the panel with the semicircular ends is placed very much farther to the left than we would expect to see it . |
| 22 | The Commissioner feels that trade union members sometimes find it difficult to accept her limited role and that they would like to see her resolve a wide range of problems . |
| 23 | over round the left hand side in the first place , but she must have been in the wrong so they must have seen it as well , they have n't really got a strong case so they threw it out of court and last week he had a letter , he opened it , from the , from the court , and he thought oh gawld here we go again , he 's got jury service , oh |
| 24 | His boyish , open face with its look of disciplined idealism was vaguely familiar to Massingham , who suspected that he might have seen it in a police recruitment pamphlet , but decided in the interest of harmonious co-operation to give Underhill the benefit of the doubt . |
| 25 | 17.15 : Head asks me to tell Class Teacher that he would like to see her after meeting with parent is over . |
| 26 | A vague idea formed in his mind — not that he loved her but that he would like to see her always in his house , like some suitable decoration or finishing touch . |
| 27 | He stressed the importance of TNT and its effect on customer service but said that he would like to see it developed more in sales as well as manufacturing . |
| 28 | Er we have n't had to see anybody about that and he sent us a letter saying that he 'd like to see us and we went and he says it there might not be a second inquest . |
| 29 | I explained that I could n't actually prescribe and that he 'd need to see you . |
| 30 | but no I mean I i mean I 've lost a lot of good friends on it , and I would love to see them back alive but , there 's nothing much I can do about it . |