Example sentences of "as i [verb] see [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I was quite impressed by this and since he was going back to England that evening I decided to go back as soon as I 'd seen him off .
2 I thought then that , much as I longed to see him , it might be as well to start hoping he would n't come back until I could truthfully tell him there would be no baby .
3 ( Looking at her , I was often reminded of the famous Lina Cavalieri as I had seen her in photographs .
4 There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before .
5 I thought of Aunt Louise as I had seen her last , sitting upright in her plastic-covered armchair .
6 The gilded chair by the dressing-table was strewn with clothing , just as I had seen it when I had sometimes taken in her morning tisane .
7 , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home .
8 I also remember right from when she was a baby as I went to see her after she had been brought home .
9 Was this ever issued as I 've seen nothing of it anywhere ?
10 They just do nt seem to be sharp enough or is it that midfield are n't providing good service — I ca n't really say as I 've seen none of the games , just read reports .
11 The precision of Hilaire 's placing was constantly astonishing and in an air-borne rond de jambe Guillem 's long lean line was as breathtaking as I 've seen it .
12 The walls of the actual Boot Room , as I 've seen it , have no room for blackboards or instructional pitches because every inch is covered with pin-ups picked for protuberant busts .
13 I 've got a ticket , and I 'm using it as soon as I 've seen you . ’
14 And if it meant the purchase of a hundred acres of timber , I 'd count it cash well spent — especially to get men who can work as I 've seen you lads work this week ! ’
15 Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ?
16 My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water .
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