Example sentences of "[conj] i see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 5pm that day I went along to Anouska Hempel 's very individual and attractive showroom at 2 Pond Place , Chelsea , where I saw her really lovely couture collection , for which she derived the inspiration from Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks . |
| 3 | I mentioned to Ewen that I still had some ( I told him 10 , but it appears to be only 8 ) copies left of GGE , and yesterday I approached Bargain Books on Princes Street , where I see they 're selling it for £6 , in the hope that I might add my copies to their stock and get a cheque for you . |
| 4 | I kept my eyes open over the next few days and although I saw her sitting in the window she never appeared outside . |
| 5 | John explained in a programme note that he had tried ‘ to get the robustness of the early eighteenth century as well as the extremely mannered movements of the period ’ and , although I saw it once only , memory suggests that he succeeded to good effect . |
| 6 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 7 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 8 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 9 | And , though I hate to admit it , the fact that I saw him differently was Sophie 's doing . |
| 10 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 11 | I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him . |
| 12 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 13 | So the decision was made for me , you see , it was only afterwards that I saw I had taken quite a step — a leap in the dark , in fact . |
| 14 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 15 | You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident . |
| 16 | It was n't until much later that I saw it metaphorically . |
| 17 | that 's the way that I saw it . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw you , it means nothing that I saw you … |
| 19 | ‘ It is important that I see her . ’ |
| 20 | In the end , it 's on that rainy promenade that I see her . |
| 21 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
| 22 | He takes good care that I see it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I hope you realise that it is only on account of the entreaty of Taheb that I see you , Huy , ’ were his words of greeting . |
| 24 | Well , I was there , behind the bar , standing in for Marcus , for a few minutes he said , more like two hours , so I saw it all develop . |
| 25 | He came over and said , ‘ So I see you are not enjoying this concert . |
| 26 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 27 | You went and , you went and sat down and I seen yous fucking between the so I went and sat down . |
| 28 | We was we was outside our house and I seen it turning along there somewhere . |
| 29 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 30 | ‘ Lightning flashed , and I saw her , ’ said a relative . |