Example sentences of "[adj] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And probably be an idea if you remind me sometime during that week when I 'm due to see you . |
| 2 | But for a stranger to see it . |
| 3 | Nikolai Demidenko is certainly the name on everyone 's lips these days — his extensive marketing and publicity has paid dividends — so it is refreshing to see him tackling repertoire which deserves to be recorded properly . |
| 4 | " You were upset and it seemed simpler to see you both together , but I will now give you information about all the bequests and tell you what I have arranged about probate and death duties . " |
| 5 | Maurice had been quite decent , seemed quite upset to see her go , swore he would try and get a divorce , but the old cow would sooner die , you could tell from her photograph . |
| 6 | ‘ But you wo n't be alive to see me die ! ’ |
| 7 | But that pleasure was tinged with sadness because his mother , Joanna , is n't alive to see him in a role he might have been born to play . |
| 8 | It had been pleasant to see her flitting about Moorlake , absorbed in her enterprise . |
| 9 | ‘ But it 'll be strange to see him go left out of the tunnel . |
| 10 | It was strange to see them grown older , and more familiar with the Corporal , whom they 'd always feared , than me , their old mentor . |
| 11 | She would have got soaked had they stayed any longer , and Ven was quite right to see it was not sensible to amble around in the pouring rain . |
| 12 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 13 | ‘ Alex , it 'll be just terrific to see you again . ’ |
| 14 | Ca n't do that seeing it 's your box . |
| 15 | It was quite usual to see her standing there baking , one knee on a cushion placed on a stool , to ease the pain . |
| 16 | ‘ It is — ah — splendid and — ah — heartwarming to see you all here enjoying yourselves , and I want to say — ah — how much pleasure it gives my good wife and — ah — myself ’ ( he could never work out whether it should be ‘ I ’ or ‘ me ’ ) ‘ to be able to entertain you in our modest home . |
| 17 | Such claims might be contentious , but it would be odd to see them as meaningless . |
| 18 | ‘ The money aspect at Leeds is nothing to do with me but I could tell Mr Wilkinson was very sorry to see me go . |
| 19 | I was brave and did n't cry or nothing , but I was real sorry to see her go . |
| 20 | Not everyone on the island was sorry to see her go . |
| 21 | We were sorry to see her go . ’ |
| 22 | No one was really sorry to see her go as she was very expensive to maintain and had never been very effective as a revenue vessel . |
| 23 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 24 | I have this day bid farewell to the Misses Wynne , two English ladies who have been as friends to me and I am sorry to see them go , and have taken in Miss Hawarth , an old friend of Mr Browning 's together with two other ladies who will stay until Easter . |
| 25 | ‘ I was sorry to see them striding along the walks at Tunbridge Wells with their arms akimbo , dressed in martial uniform , ’ wrote the authoress Elizabeth Montagu that spring of some fellow members of her sex . |
| 26 | So I was not sorry to see them go . |
| 27 | Lear 's death may not have been devastating , but I was sorry to see him go . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not sorry to see him go — it 's like having death in the room . ’ |
| 29 | They were sorry to see him go . |
| 30 | But , like John Major , they 're not sorry to see him go Pictures : ROGER ALLEN |