Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been pleasant to see her flitting about Moorlake , absorbed in her enterprise . |
| 2 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It does not matter that you may perceive a witness to be a witness for the opposition ; although it will happen rarely , if they are prepared to see you , go and see them . |
| 5 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 6 | It demonstrates how assiduously my hon. Friend serves his constituents , and I am delighted to see him here . |
| 7 | ‘ I am delighted to see you again , even if it be under such tragic circumstances . |
| 8 | I am delighted to see you . |
| 9 | Some companies assume that their staff accept that colleagues X and Y will move up and over their heads , and are content to see it happen . |
| 10 | Anne 's mother and father had been delighted to see her , plying her with tea and cake and endless conversation in the delightful setting of their Oxfordshire home . |
| 11 | The Prince had loved children , had been very kind to them , and Sally-Anne had been delighted to see him gravely encourage two four-year-old boys , the twin sons of an old friend , to race pieces of bread , butter and jam up and down his expensively trousered leg . |
| 12 | ‘ I am relieved to see it . |
| 13 | In a way , I am sad to see him go . |
| 14 | The second reason that , that we 're delighted to see you is that as a Trades Council we have been trying very hard over the last six or seven years to raise the profile of the trade union movement and this has been quite difficult in in during the Thatcher years , during the anti-trade union legislation , the onslaught by the media , trade unions er , the profile of trade unions has not been easy to raise . |
| 15 | Now we 're delighted to see you here because we know that the , the G M B shares this view and we know that you 've also been in the forefront of introducing technology , er and we know also that having you here er , having your conference here , helps us enormously to continue this process of raising the profile of the trades unions , the trades council , the labour movement in the city . |
| 16 | Well , you might say you 're glad to see me but , in view of what I 've heard , perhaps you 're not . " |
| 17 | ‘ I know you 're glad to see me back , ’ said Thorfinn . |
| 18 | representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred . |
| 19 | People are treating me like they 're happy to see me . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You have n't said you 're pleased to see me , Silas . |
| 21 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 22 | ‘ She knows we 're anxious to see him , and does n't expect him to go rushing off to see her the minute he arrives . ’ |
| 23 | The result is a perfectly acceptable ‘ build ’ fraction that will fool most of the people who are likely to see it and , unlike the generic fraction fonts , is actually in the correct typeface . |
| 24 | She had been lucky to see it in Vogue and to find it available in Harrods . |
| 25 | ‘ I am glad to see you , ’ she said . |
| 26 | ‘ And Rupert , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ I am glad to see you did n't lose any of your hair after last Thursday . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I am glad to see you … ’ he began . |
| 28 | The first practice game for Brian Horton as manchester city manager was in the back garden of his woodstock home with twins matthew and lucy … some United fans are glad to see him go … sadly his passion for good football … his achievement of keeping a small club alfoat with little or no money has n't been given enough credit … he did the club proud … |
| 29 | The first practice game for Brian Horton as manchester city manager was in the back garden of his woodstock home with twins matthew and lucy … some United fans are glad to see him go … sadly his passion for good football … his achievement of keeping a small club alfoat with little or no money has n't been given enough credit … he did the club proud … |
| 30 | I have been unable to see it with binoculars , though keener-eyed observers may be more successful . |