Example sentences of "[conj] i see [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | I shall tell you , instead , of the time Gerda and I saw you on the stage in Vienna . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But erm so , so it 's difficult to know exactly what 's happening now , and unless I see it in the office . |
| 10 | Because I see it from the outside ? |
| 11 | ‘ She looked well enough to me when I saw her on the cake section of the WI stall yesterday morning ! ’ |
| 12 | I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Yeah I mean when I saw her round the park she said oh I 'm really enjoying it this |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 18 | ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship . |
| 19 | When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score . |
| 20 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 21 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
| 22 | ‘ When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true . |
| 23 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 24 | She 's a big woman who 's always in a green housecoat when I see her in the evenings after the pub when , as often happens , her son and I end up at her house . |
| 25 | When I see them in the church I always talk to them and I said ‘ Look have you got bottles ? ’ and sometimes they 'll say yes and sometimes they 'll say no . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm only happy when I see you in the theatre , ’ she said . |
| 27 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 28 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 29 | I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’ |
| 30 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |