Example sentences of "see [pron] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Normally we do n't like people to see them at this stage . |
2 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
3 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
4 | But , we 've seen them on this side as well ! |
5 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
6 | The Gulf has seen nothing on this scale before . ’ |
7 | ‘ I 've never seen you along this way before , ’ she said . |
8 | I have not seen him since this morning . ’ |
9 | I have n't seen him since this morning . ’ |
10 | Eden wrote : ‘ After three months without a comment from the Prime Minister ’ ( he had not seen him during this period , which included the ‘ internationalization ’ of the Spanish Civil War ) , ‘ I found this an astonishing doctrine , ’ |
11 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
12 | She had never seen him in this mood before , but the expression on his face was familiar . |
13 | ‘ Do you know , ’ she said , ‘ I have never seen him in this room . |
14 | ‘ I do n't know what he does but I 've seen him around this area . |
15 | Those who had seen her in this mood before faded quietly out of reach ; others got their fingers burnt . |
16 | I 've never seen her before this year ! |
17 | ‘ Have you seen anyone around this warehouse in the last six months ? ’ |
18 | ‘ We have not seen anything of this kind in Britain , ’ added the Commission 's Head of Site Studies . |
19 | Hills cut him from 10-1 to 6-1 , prompting their representative , Don Payne , to comment : ‘ You expect big market moves before races like this , but I 've never seen anything on this scale . ’ |
20 | How nice to see you at this kind of gathering . |
21 | The next customer was a middle-aged man who must have been a regular , for he began by saying , ‘ Do n't often see you on this side , miss . ’ |
22 | Well he sai he did say he was gon na come and see you about this money . |
23 | I do n't see one in this room . ’ |
24 | Charles put on a brave face to the world , but secretly he was in turmoil for many , many months ; and one other person who helped see him through this period was Diana . |
25 | I did n't see her until this afternoon , and I could n't ask her then , not just before her operation . |
26 | Mistake was perhaps to let Moira F. see it at this stage , he wrote . |
27 | She could even see it in this thing , the pallor of it , the fine dust of jet black fur . |
28 | " If you close your eyes you can see it in this room , the two of them standing there , rough kind of people . |
29 | But if you are still in the UK for the four days from July 15–18 , put a note in your dairy to come and see us at this year 's Art in Action at Waterperry House , Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
30 | ‘ You did n't see anything of this man in the caldarium ? ’ |