Example sentences of "[adj] see [pers pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some see it and have sound explanations , like one Magar lady in rural west central Nepal who gave a ten-minute lecture to me on the problems of the transference of fertility from forest to arable land , and changing uses of crop residues with increasing population pressure , that would have stood up well in a graduate seminar . |
| 2 | Some see it as reflecting only an odd set of ancient taboos . |
| 3 | I was relieved to see her and encouraged by the confidence she gave me . |
| 4 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 5 | In spite of this , Catherine was very glad to see him and rushed up to kiss him . |
| 6 | By the time his ready smile reached us we were glad to see him and retreated to try to get warm and ask a few questions . |
| 7 | If that was the discovery Francis had made and mentioned in his diary it might have caused him distress but it was hard to see it as providing a motive for his murder . |
| 8 | The dog looks back to see where the owner is , panics at being unable to see him and comes running back . |
| 9 | Unfortunately Atticus is not too pleased to see her and tells Jem to take her and Bill home . |
| 10 | Hayling had seemed unusually pleased to see him and offered him some champagne . |
| 11 | We managed to visit her on our way back , however , and she was very pleased to see us and made us most welcome . |
| 12 | We reached Mandalay and I went straight to the Winchester Mission where dear Willie Garrad looked shocked to see me and said in a scandalised voice , ‘ Oh , but you ca n't possibly stay here ’ — it was a Brotherhood you see ! |
| 13 | By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu . |
| 14 | Offering the meagre purse of local gossip , news from Buttermere , Nicholson spoke about Mr Skelton 's plans for building a large stone manor house in the area ; dwelt longingly on the prospect of Miss Skelton and said something about the wrestling which included a mention of Mary of Buttermere and a young man from the north of the county walking thirty or forty miles just to see her and make his feelings known to her . |
| 15 | Syl 's mother was highly displeased to see her and made a great to-do of fetching an extra cup , saucer and plate , worrying aloud that there would n't be enough for three of us to eat . |
| 16 | He realized the boy had grown in the two months since he had last seen him and looked at him carefully , noticing the way his wrists poked out of the shirt and the slight roughness of the clear skin . |
| 17 | It is now over a year since I last saw you and believe me Elsie it seems like an awful lot more time than that . |