Example sentences of "but i see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember what band Petra 's in , but I seen them practise once . |
| 2 | But I saw nothing . |
| 3 | ‘ But I saw her perform those so-called miracles . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Ye think ye 're a big man , ’ Phillis said , with a rare spite , ‘ but I saw ye greeting . |
| 5 | I could still have easily called in if I 'd wanted to but I saw something advertised in a village saw the board took the number down and phoned them up . |
| 6 | But I saw her husband crossing the car park . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But I saw him only yesterday ! |
| 8 | ‘ I could n't see his face very well because the leaves and branches were in the way , but I saw him climb the fence and steal the bulbs . ’ |
| 9 | Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’ |
| 10 | I could n't hear and was crying from the pain , but I saw him put his foot sideways into Marius 's midriff . |
| 11 | I was standing in the kitchen , he did n't see me but I saw him . |
| 12 | But I saw him . |
| 13 | But I saw him with his cap full of golden sovereigns and turned on the table and lent them all he 'd got . |
| 14 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 15 | But I saw him . |
| 16 | But I saw him Sunday evening . ’ |
| 17 | But I saw them , I saw them face to face . |
| 18 | well I thought they 'd gone but , but I saw them here . |
| 19 | I have never used this model railway , but I saw which way he went . |
| 20 | But I saw what was coming . |
| 21 | He said he had , but I saw he was going red . |
| 22 | ‘ But I saw your husband come into the tent while you were over at the tombola , ’ Mrs Doran said to Mrs Yardley . |
| 23 | He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him . |
| 24 | I would have caught up with you earlier but I saw you talking to that poor downtrodden mouse of a Haynes woman and waited till she 'd gone . |
| 25 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 26 | Slim in her dungarees , with her long , curly , chestnut hair and wide-eyed enthusiasm , some would tell you Marcia was ‘ a little cookie ’ , but I saw someone who had the wisdom to recognise where she was happy and the courage to act on it . |
| 27 | But — but I saw someone cycling past ; cycling up towards Banbury Road . |
| 28 | I came to England when I was 9 , that would have been in 1961 , and that 's when I saw the world for what it 's all about , I was still a child but I saw it , the black and white thing , it was a reality . |
| 29 | As a scientist I can not believe it — but I saw it happen with my own eyes . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , sir , I am sorry but I saw it lying there and the temptation was too much for me . ’ |