Example sentences of "[conj] i see [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was .
2 My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right .
3 I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh !
4 I shall tell you , instead , of the time Gerda and I saw you on the stage in Vienna . ’
5 This degree is an exciting new venture , and I see myself as the first of many lay people who will benefit from the training here ’ .
6 He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it .
7 I would n't cos I , I ca n't if I saw you in the street I do n't know you I could n't be , I could n't be attracted to you .
8 I do n't really get pocket money but if I see something in the shops in , in , this toy or something my mum , mum 'll buy it for me and say that 's your pocket money for this week .
9 If I see anything on the subject it goes into the file , and eventually I have enough material for a book or an article . ’
10 if I see anything on the table I 'll just pop it in a freezer bag
11 Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in …
12 but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration .
13 He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags .
14 But erm so , so it 's difficult to know exactly what 's happening now , and unless I see it in the office .
15 Because I see it from the outside ?
16 Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled .
17 ‘ She looked well enough to me when I saw her on the cake section of the WI stall yesterday morning ! ’
18 I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her .
19 ‘ Leith never said anything about agreeing to marry you when I saw her in the — ’ Travis left his own unhappy thoughts to start to exclaim .
20 Yeah I mean when I saw her round the park she said oh I 'm really enjoying it this
21 I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed .
22 The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty .
23 When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once .
24 ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship .
25 When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score .
26 Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’
27 Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door .
28 When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true .
29 When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’
30 When I see myself in the mirror I realise why ; I am very unattractive .
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