Example sentences of "[pers pn] see [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating . |
| 2 | One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating . |
| 3 | With four boys to keep in trousers she bought a pair of pants from the store , unpicked them to see how they were put together , cut a pattern from the pieces and never looked back . |
| 4 | Well , Kim Barnes joined them to see how it 's done . |
| 5 | That 's why , the morning the porter took me down to the forest , you sent Dame Catherine after me to see where we were going . |
| 6 | It grieved me to see how they had stripped the great Rhododendron and the lesser Kalmias . ’ |
| 7 | The next day Errol called me to see how I was . |
| 8 | This practical demonstration of working positively with conflict gives me confidence in your work and helps me to see how I can listen better to others . |
| 9 | It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her . |
| 10 | I saw where I was drifting and I was concerned about hitting the hangar but it was all right |
| 11 | I followed him , Lily , and then — I could n't believe it — I saw where he 'd a desk key hidden , so then I put the books down sudden , and bent double . |
| 12 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 13 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 14 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 15 | The officer I saw when I joined said to me : " Are you keen about the A. F. S. ? " |
| 16 | This hypothesis was roughly confirmed by what I saw when I came to the quayside , or what had been the quayside when the lake existed . |
| 17 | I saw why it was receding . |
| 18 | Then I saw why he was so confident . |
| 19 | I saw now she was softening me up just to ask me a favour . |
| 20 | And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ? |
| 21 | Er I saw how they used to do it in the after they 'd finished work , used to be at it till till nine or ten that night . |
| 22 | I saw how you looked at it . |
| 23 | I saw only her and my professor . |
| 24 | I see right I get you . |
| 25 | I see when he come to pay the bill . |
| 26 | He had severely limited the scope of his autobiography : ‘ I depict not what I was but what I see when I look back ’ , he told Eleanor Farjeon . |
| 27 | I know what I see when I look at the grass and I have been told that the colour is called ‘ green ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ What I see when I think about the past … ’ |
| 29 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
| 30 | Then , as with fuller information he feels himself being moved in the opposite direction , he can say to himself ‘ Ah , now I see why I ought not to go ’ . |