Example sentences of "[noun] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 2 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
| 3 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 4 | Young women had travelled from all over the country during his trial to see him and meet him . |
| 5 | " Eh , alors , when do you bring this Ben to see me ? " |
| 6 | But whatever it was , he did n't think twice about sending his heavies to see me . |
| 7 | You have to get people out from behind their desks to see them clearly . |
| 8 | Being anxious is normal , the next stage though is to admit the anxiety and to ask for the faith to see it through . |
| 9 | She made it easier for Sarah to see him . |
| 10 | Often , apprentice footballers refuse to sign professional forms seeing them , as one Midland youth put it , as ‘ bad risks ’ ; and young boxers would , in the pugilistic vernacular , ‘ swallow ’ before they had given their careers time to bloom — usually on the say-so of parents . |
| 11 | Kerry and Joanne took time out to pop across from their busy stand to see us . |
| 12 | He was going to let you come to the sanatorium to see me . |
| 13 | But I had to have an excuse to see you , so I 'm not complaining . |
| 14 | It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks . |
| 15 | Then , make sure Stevie ate his bread , watch Gary to see he did n't pinch the beans off Jenny 's plate , talk to Patrick to see he did n't fall asleep again and keep an eye out for fights , punches , kicks under the table and flying crusts . |
| 16 | Sitting behind Eva and Dad in the car , watching their hands constantly fluttering towards each other , you did n't have to be a genius to see they were a couple . |
| 17 | She had the cheek to think he might come to Brighton to see her . |
| 18 | If he lingered at the end of the corridor he could see the class without Percy Makepeace seeing him . |
| 19 | an hour to see me . |
| 20 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 21 | I 'm inclined to ring in half an hour to see you 've got there safely , but I suppose I 'd have your brother hopping out of bed . ’ |
| 22 | I went down there one Sunday afternoon to see him working . |
| 23 | Erm so I 'm gon na go in this afternoon to see her . |
| 24 | ‘ The Daleks ’ , however , took the show up into the rarified heights of peak viewing , prompting programme schedulers to see it as a very useful keystone in grabbing audiences for the whole of Saturday evening — which had been Donald Baverstock 's prime intention all along . |
| 25 | Then , make sure Stevie ate his bread , watch Gary to see he did n't pinch the beans off Jenny 's plate , talk to Patrick to see he did n't fall asleep again and keep an eye out for fights , punches , kicks under the table and flying crusts . |
| 26 | Sir Paul would be grateful if Commander Dalgliesh could spare a few minutes to see him . |
| 27 | Otherwise it is rather like spending several days journeying to a famous tourist site , but when we get there only allowing ourselves 20 minutes to see it . |
| 28 | You never knew when your luck would turn — another mean Taibach slogan to see him through these dazzling fields of honey and clover . |
| 29 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
| 30 | I went up there from school six times to see it . |