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 ? ’
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