Example sentences of "[subord] i [adv] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My South American Aluminium Catfish seemed to settle in well , although I never saw it eat , dry or live food . |
| 2 | although I never see her on Wednesday night . |
| 3 | Standing there with her back to me , she looks more beautiful than I ever seen her . |
| 4 | It 's J 's birthday on April 2nd & they are having a party ( at last ! ) so I 'll catch up on the news then — they are v. seldom at Gayfield St these days , so I never see them . |
| 5 | My probation officer outside told me she 'd try to bring her up , but then she said it was too far and she could n't get the funds , so I only saw her twice in eight months . |
| 6 | And if I sometimes see them at their worst , I sometimes see them at their best as well . |
| 7 | I said to her , ‘ I 'm not willing to argue with you here because it would get me into trouble but if I ever saw you on the street I would ’ . |
| 8 | But , if you ever cause any more trouble , in any way to my family , or if I ever see you near our house , then I swear I 'll kill you both . |
| 9 | That 's the worst for them ; they 're cutting off my pittance if I ever see you again . |
| 10 | I do n't care if I never see him again . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Because as far as I 'm concerned , if I never see you again … ’ |
| 12 | I certainly never pictured it as being the same operation acting on different pieces until I actually saw it happening on the cube . |
| 13 | Even then I did n't really believe it until I actually saw it . |
| 14 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 15 | But suddenly I 'm looking round that kitchen like I never saw it before . |
| 16 | he , cos I never saw her he just said to say are you alright ? |
| 17 | I do n't think he lives here , cos I never see him except in Ibrahim 's room . |
| 18 | Europe ? well we could beat about the bush but there 's not a single rep on the road that ever gets out the office so got ta win it cos I actually saw I actually we I actually saw her go out and see a customer so she must she must be er |
| 19 | I 'm alright like cos I hardly see him but yous have him all day . |
| 20 | ‘ Because I never saw him before Monday and I have n't stopped seeing him since . |
| 21 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 22 | My task , as I now see it , is to communicate the true nature of my attitude or ( more important ) my actual behaviour towards women . |
| 23 | I was encouraged to do A level maths at school , but did n't fancy being in a group full of nasty adolescent boys ( as I then saw it ) and so opted for English and languages . |
| 24 | I do n't know , as I never saw it . |
| 25 | That 's how I think of it : as my home , even though I only see it for a short time every year . |
| 26 | She told me I was the only person she could trust , though I often saw her around with other people , misplaced people , I suppose . |
| 27 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |