Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'll be OK for you to go on seeing me there . |
| 2 | Again more mildly , she added , ‘ I wish I could forbid you to go on seeing her . ’ |
| 3 | The mere fact that Penry Vaughan wished to go on seeing her , however few and far between their meetings , did wonders for her self-esteem . |
| 4 | I owe it to him to explain what 's happened between us , to get his permission to go on seeing you . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd want to go on seeing you a lot , though . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 7 | I want to go down see it . |
| 8 | Their need for live practice has since seen them support The Paris Angels and Northside , though they admit they 'd be better or suited to a dance crowd . |
| 9 | ‘ It is now up to Mr Jones to come in to see us to try to sort it out . |
| 10 | One night their father had come down to see her . |
| 11 | Cos she , she 'd gone to you first and she , and she came along , she said erm Ann 's not in , she said I 've come down to see you both . |
| 12 | ‘ I had to come especially to see you this morning , Leith , ’ he said earnestly as he fell into step with her . |
| 13 | After half an hour or so , spent scratching mosquito bites , I head over to see him . |
| 14 | This makes them more varied to look at , and in general perhaps more picturesque , but it is not easy to make them intelligible to someone who has not seen them . |
| 15 | She has not seen him since half past six , when they met in the kitchen over a salami sandwich . |
| 16 | ‘ Isa has not seen me since the happy news and it is that which restores me to near my old self . ’ |
| 17 | For instance the project will assess children 's understanding of the following situation : at a pedestrian crossing I can rely on the motorist stopping if I know that he has seen me , but I can not rely on it if I know that he has not seen me . |
| 18 | He really scents the difficulty but thinks it too hard for discussion and so conveniently pretends that he has not seen it . |
| 19 | Ken has encouraged me to circulate this , although he has not seen it in detail . |
| 20 | Watch out for a driver or cyclist who has not seen you on the crossing — Rules 10 , 11 , 12 and 13 . |
| 21 | A little later he crooked her in the shelter of his arms and said , ‘ You 've no idea what it took for me to come over to see you that first time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ She pretended not to see me though , not that I care of course . ’ |
| 23 | Those on the sidelines tried not to see them or know about them , but it was difficult . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 25 | ‘ No machine has ever seen me beaten . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm afraid nobody has ever seen him in church . |
| 27 | For this is the earth as no bird has ever seen it , and no man from any plane . |
| 28 | But then , clearly startled as some thought came to him , a sudden exclamation in his own language rent the air , and , ‘ Would I be right in thinking that no man , known to you or a recent stranger , has ever seen you ready for bed ? ’ he asked . |
| 29 | With a wide , delighted smile , because she had n't really expected ever to see him again , she teased , ‘ Are you following me ? ’ |
| 30 | He looks up to see her approaching . |