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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ But you wo n't be alive to see me die ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It had been pleasant to see her flitting about Moorlake , absorbed in her enterprise . |
| 7 | ‘ But it 'll be strange to see him go left out of the tunnel . |
| 8 | It was strange to see them grown older , and more familiar with the Corporal , whom they 'd always feared , than me , their old mentor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Alex , it 'll be just terrific to see you again . ’ |
| 12 | It was quite usual to see her standing there baking , one knee on a cushion placed on a stool , to ease the pain . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Such claims might be contentious , but it would be odd to see them as meaningless . |
| 15 | ‘ The money aspect at Leeds is nothing to do with me but I could tell Mr Wilkinson was very sorry to see me go . |
| 16 | I was brave and did n't cry or nothing , but I was real sorry to see her go . |
| 17 | Not everyone on the island was sorry to see her go . |
| 18 | We were sorry to see her go . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | So I was not sorry to see them go . |
| 24 | Lear 's death may not have been devastating , but I was sorry to see him go . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not sorry to see him go — it 's like having death in the room . ’ |
| 26 | They were sorry to see him go . |
| 27 | But , like John Major , they 're not sorry to see him go Pictures : ROGER ALLEN |
| 28 | ATKINSON : Sorry to see him go |
| 29 | She was better off without him and we were n't sorry to see him off our patch . ’ |
| 30 | Commenting on Mr Hutchison 's decision Professor Raymond Miquel the Council Chairman said they would be sorry to see him go and paid tribute to the contribution he had made to Scottish sport over the past 26 years . |