Example sentences of "[modal v] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I ought to see her again — just once , to reassure myself that all the old feelings really are as dead as I believe . |
| 2 | How many times did you tell me I ought to see her ? ’ |
| 3 | I could do park parade tha , a girl was , er er anywa , I went in the factory and one of the girls says they were saying about a dance , says ooh I quite a few you ought to see him dance the park parade ! |
| 4 | ‘ You ought to see them . |
| 5 | You ought to see them . |
| 6 | You ought to see them up it 's sort of like a leg here , half a leg there a bit of chatting up . |
| 7 | Klaus , is n't it ? and Klara — Oh , of course — ’ corrected — ‘ Erika , Fritz , Rosa … we really ought to see you more often , ought we not ? |
| 8 | ‘ A doctor ought to see you first , ’ said the man . |
| 9 | You ought to see it , Simon ! |
| 10 | She ought to see it first . ’ |
| 11 | But I thought you ought to see it . ’ |
| 12 | You ought to see it ! |
| 13 | A return to five furlongs should see him back on the winning path . |
| 14 | You should see him slobber in the office ! |
| 15 | Until then she had been tortured by fears that she might not recognise her son if she should see him . |
| 16 | You should see him playing guitar ! |
| 17 | After that we can go to a hotel and so on , but I think I should see him . ’ |
| 18 | Robert stood alone and waited ; he was patiently expectant of Nicandra 's disappointment when she should see him . |
| 19 | ‘ How kind of you , ’ she said , balancing nicely on the edge of irony , in case a few minutes more of this should see him running out of line to shoot , and make it desirable to jettison him , ‘ how kind of you to tell me all about it ! ’ |
| 20 | Ye should see him . |
| 21 | Where had he been all this time , that she should see him now being led prisoner into Parfois ? |
| 22 | We should see him soon he was doing some er curtain tracks for us . |
| 23 | Should see him when he acts right . |
| 24 | So it 's in a minute I should see him |
| 25 | You should see him , well , he 's so wiry , he 's into everything , how they cope with him , he 's not naughty as such but he 's such erm |
| 26 | I mean , I mean , you know , John , you should see him he 's happy ! |
| 27 | But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope . |
| 28 | Kathleen turned away from the window , hastily , for fear her sister should see her watching and began to get out the mixing bowl and pastry board , the flour and the milk . |
| 29 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |
| 30 | ‘ His second wife , ’ Hodai sighed in a pretence of ecstasy , ‘ Heavenly Name , you should see her . |