Example sentences of "they [verb] [not/n't] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not see him as they came in . |
| 2 | Luckily , they did not see us , but they heard our six friends riding out of the trees , and with a shout they galloped towards them . |
| 3 | What was found tomorrow , though they did not see it for newspapers were beyond their means , was a further notice from Robert Asshe to the effect that he would not be responsible for his daughter 's debts . |
| 4 | Their guides took them by a route well to the west of the main Annandale road , round the hill of Trailtrow , although they did not see it , avoiding the Brydekirk area , and on down the winding valley of a small stream running south-eastwards . |
| 5 | Moray and Robert Stewart had similar tales to tell of the poor leadership and rash foolishness at Halidon Hill , although being themselves young and inexperienced they did not see it in quite the same terms as had the veteran Keith . |
| 6 | They did n't see her . |
| 7 | They kept trying to speak to her and yet they did n't see her . |
| 8 | ‘ I was lucky , they did n't see me escape through another door . |
| 9 | How they did n't see me , I 'll never know , 'cos I was just huddled up in the corner of the alley . |
| 10 | ‘ They did n't see me , ’ he told Carrie . |
| 11 | ‘ They brought some other poor sod in , ’ he said , as if in answer to my question , ‘ but I was over behind the door and they did n't see me . |
| 12 | They did n't see him again . |
| 13 | This can be illustrated by a sentence in the active such as They did n't see him cross the street , which in fact usually implies that he did cross the street , even though he was not seen doing it . |
| 14 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 15 | ‘ Then let's trust that they did n't see you . |
| 16 | I may be that , like the street cars of San Francisco , artists living in London see them so much , they do n't see them at all . |
| 17 | I may be that , like the street cars of San Francisco , artists living in London see them so much , they do n't see them at all . |
| 18 | They do n't see her at all . |
| 19 | They do n't see me , so they just carry on , real friendly and private like . |
| 20 | A deaf therapist said : ‘ They do n't see me as a health professional who knows it all , but who does n't really understand ; they see me as a disabled person . ’ |
| 21 | and they just pull out and they do n't see me . |
| 22 | We often meet people who are in in their forties and fifties on er early retirement and little bit difficult to get over the message they do n't they do n't see it as retirement and yet surprisingly very few of the people who got redundancy at forty and forty five and fifty seem to be bothered about taking up other work at all that . |
| 23 | ‘ They do n't see it like that . |
| 24 | So they do n't see it as two conflicting aims , they see er the two sort of complementing one another . |
| 25 | Men-at-arms … four of them … better if they do n't see you . |
| 26 | See money 's all right they probably love the money you can bring in but if they do n't see you to spend it or to share it . |
| 27 | But they do n't see you as much as his secretary does either do they ? |