Example sentences of "[conj] i see " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mentioned to Ewen that I still had some ( I told him 10 , but it appears to be only 8 ) copies left of GGE , and yesterday I approached Bargain Books on Princes Street , where I see they 're selling it for £6 , in the hope that I might add my copies to their stock and get a cheque for you . |
| 2 | I never go round by myself without seeing one because I hear feet scrabbling on the bark or I see bits of fir cone floating down . |
| 3 | I go to the pub a bit , but I have n't got the money , or I see my boyfriend , or I keep my mam company . " |
| 4 | Well , we had to make a better road through the forest , although I see through the window that it 's grown up a bit recently . |
| 5 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 6 | And this light that I see ? |
| 7 | I can only say that I see no right whatsoever . ’ |
| 8 | It does n't happen , and students are the poorer because the compounds that I see as old friends are more like enemies to them . |
| 9 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 10 | ‘ As far as I am concerned diving is not an excessive calorie-consuming sport , and certainly from the numbers of divers that I see who are overweight , I do not actually believe that the statement in ‘ The Great Diving Adventure ’ , by Horace Hobbs , is actually borne out . |
| 11 | They see things that I miss and miss things that I see . |
| 12 | He takes good care that I see it . ’ |
| 13 | The limitations are the lack of footswitching between the clean/crunch and OD1/OD2 modes , and that I see as a drawback ( unless you find you prefer one or the other and stick to it ) . |
| 14 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 15 | He was always grateful for ‘ the healthy and restorative force that I see in the country . ’ |
| 16 | By that I mean that I see the New English Art Club as standing for a cultured , civilised , very English approach to art — a kind of visual stability . |
| 17 | I must tell you that I see no advantage to them in this situation . |
| 18 | " I ca n't say that I see why not . |
| 19 | To say that I see the squirrel with the black nose is to be committed not only to the existence of a visual experience , but also to the existence of something else . |
| 20 | That I see before me ? |
| 21 | A reply might be that surely I am inferring that I see a sheep in the field from my knowledge of my own present sensory states . |
| 22 | I am ushered reverently into a cabin and pick up the quaint hand set , which has an additional round earpiece for clamping over the spare ear , so that I see myself reflected in the glass like a radio operator or a session singer . |
| 23 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
| 24 | And are those hot chestnuts that I see ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It is important that I see her . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I hope you realise that it is only on account of the entreaty of Taheb that I see you , Huy , ’ were his words of greeting . |
| 27 | In the end , it 's on that rainy promenade that I see her . |
| 28 | It 's been so long now that I see the title as my right . ’ |
| 29 | But the only difference that I see was that they pushed their ploughs there , so they must have been smaller than the ones we use . |
| 30 | You might be forgiven for thinking that I see an ideal speaker-hearer as someone who relies on everyone else to complete his conversational turns , never finishes a sentence , speaks very quickly and often with his mouth full , never answers questions , always repeats himself , says nothing without hedging , and invariably forgets what he wants to say — but who survives , if only by ending his utterance with a triumphant whatchamacallit . |