Example sentences of "[verb] i [modal v] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't know it the way you two do the work it looks so fine that I did n't think I could see it properly . |
| 2 | But I think I heard on the television like somebody goes I 'll see you in court , I 'll sue you for millions so like , it 's terrible , but I mean , they , Desmond Lyneham was int was erm tt talking to so to someone from Ladbrokes , |
| 3 | He finishes it with erm Eddie goes I 'll see you around somewhere or something |
| 4 | He did n't know I could see him . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect I 'll see you in the office , ’ he said . |
| 6 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |
| 7 | She somebody has fenced it off , she says I could see them far enough , she said , we always had that bit for our camp and it was further down the glen . |
| 8 | I hope I can see you again . ’ |
| 9 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 10 | Look I 'll see you . |
| 11 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |
| 12 | But erm unless he alters his way you know I can see it coming off . |
| 13 | I know I could see you writing them anyway . |
| 14 | Indeed , this very struggle that I find so fascinating in the writing of Paradise Lost , you know , a rather intimate way I feel I can see it in eleven words that come just a little earlier in the fourth book , in which he tells us ‘ Seeing the apples growing on the trees , that they are hisperian fables true , if true here only and of delicious taste ’ . |
| 15 | The colours of the countryside as we pass are English colours , greens , golds , the high washed blue bag sky , but as my eyes become adjusted and my mind learns to relax I can see them change and become , in the blue grey light , more obviously French . |
| 16 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 17 | Life had become spiced by my longing , by the sheer happiness of knowing I would see you that morning , that night , next day : |
| 18 | Oh well I do n't suppose I 'll see her on Tuesday . |
| 19 | I do n't suppose I 'll see you again , because Doctor Rice will be back in a day or two . |
| 20 | I do n't suppose I shall see her again . " |
| 21 | I really thought I would see her round Sale , I 've never seen anything of her |
| 22 | ‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I 've seen similar situations on company planets run by the Usurians , but I never thought I 'd see it on Earth . ’ |
| 24 | I never thought I 'd see you again ! ’ |
| 25 | Another door , Harry had said , down by the river 's edge : and in fact , when I looked I could see it , a once-painted slab of wood set in brickwork , its bottom edge barely six inches above the water . |
| 26 | I think I ought to see her again — just once , to reassure myself that all the old feelings really are as dead as I believe . |
| 27 | Sometimes I think I can see him . ’ |
| 28 | After that we can go to a hotel and so on , but I think I should see him . ’ |
| 29 | and sharpened up with typical 20th-century cynicism by the American lyricist Stephen Sondheim : I 've got those " God why do n't you love me , oh you do I 'll see you later " blues , That " long as you ignore me , you 're the only thing that matters " feeling , That " if I 'm good enough for you , you 're not good enough " And " thank you for the present but what 's wrong with it ? " stuff . |
| 30 | That means I will see you at least once . |