Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [vb mod] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect I 'll see you in the office , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Just a minute … ’ and finally , ‘ Well , I expect we 'll see you when you 've the time , ’ as if she only visited them twice a year . |
| 3 | I hope I can see you again . ’ |
| 4 | As she stepped further into the boatyard , she thought : I hope you can hear me , Pascoe , and I hope you can see me clearly from the tree , because I can smell the tiger . |
| 5 | and when we and when we were dredging that up , that used to be all like er er trunks of trees and you could , I mean you could see it when they come up it was very light . |
| 6 | I mean you 'd see it going round the town quite regularly emptying the gullies . |
| 7 | Even from er the quality of the brochure I mean you can see you know I mean that 's quite high level |
| 8 | I mean you must see it yourself . |
| 9 | Look I 'll see you . |
| 10 | twelve thirty three , and if you look you 'll see I 'm from Orkney . |
| 11 | Look you can see it 's all brown . |
| 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 | unless it 's the but er if you 've forgot it back good reason for handing it over so yeah I mean I , I think that well I 've given you the , the , the strength if you like we can see it , perhaps a little bit more open questioning would n't go amiss would it ? |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | I suppose they could see I was in a mild state of shock . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sometimes I think I can see him . ’ |
| 19 | After that we can go to a hotel and so on , but I think I should see him . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I think you can see we are on the road to recovery . |
| 22 | I , I mean it may not be right , but it , I mean as I think you can see it has a kind of logic about it , erm and , and i it may be that it , it 's not the right explanation , but the very fact that erm we 're suggesting it , I think shows that erm again it 's naive to think that motherhood is a kind of er is a one-sided affair where you know mothers sacrifice themselves er for their offspring , because nature demands it . |
| 23 | And and I think we might see it in one of two ways . |
| 24 | I think , I think we should see it for what it is , which is a power struggle inside a ruling elite in the Soviet Union for which we do n't really have an interest in taking sides . |
| 25 | It 's perhaps of some interest to us that erm these to great -isms , liberalism and nationalism I think we can see them as products of the French revolution . |
| 26 | And if they do we 'll see them coming miles away . ’ |
| 27 | I suppose in theory I could be lying through my teeth and have some other reason for wanting to go to Strathspeld — maybe I 'm just getting homesick for Scotland — but I 'm certain he knows that I 'm not lying and that there is a body ; I think he can see it in my eyes . |
| 28 | I wish I may see it ! ’ |
| 29 | I mean … well , I mean , I 'm not sorry to leave the school , leave here , but I 'm sorry to leave you , and I wish I could see you again . |
| 30 | I really wish I could see you . |