Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there I went a bit I once saw a big pile of soil at the back you know . |
| 2 | Then someone peers out the little square panel , and finally some bolts are drawn back and a Rasta I never saw before beckons me inside . |
| 3 | But I was pus pushing and p pulling of course I never saw the same doctor twice . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not the shape of any money I ever saw . ’ |
| 5 | For ten minutes I never saw my float as the fish cruised up and down . |
| 6 | You always see the foxes I never see them . |
| 7 | It had puzzled me originally , but after a quick word with Glyn as you came into the offices I now see he wants to pressurise you into following his wishes and signing the house over . ’ |
| 8 | They offer very scant opportunity for children to express themselves in creative and cultural activities , while retaining a relatively generous allocation for physical education ( a subject which in all my years as an inspector and teacher trainer I never saw convincingly taught outside college teaching practice ) . |
| 9 | Dark Star man , that , that had to be the funniest movie I ever saw , I saw it when I was about ten . |
| 10 | Maddox said , ‘ Luke was the best natural talent I ever saw . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm trying to find an actress I once saw who looks just like you . |
| 12 | In its cool , silvery light I suddenly saw everything very clearly . |
| 13 | But a glass key I never saw or heard of and can not imagine what use it might be ; it would shiver in any lock . ’ |
| 14 | At Thorsbury Manor she never saw the inside of the kitchen yet here , it was the centre of family life . |
| 15 | When we look at UK multinational corporations ' direct investment we again see the impact of the break-up of the Commonwealth as an economic bloc : in the early 1960s Commonwealth countries accounted for 60 per cent of the UK 's overseas direct assets , but by 1984 this figure had declined to 32 per cent ( taking account of current and ex-Commonwealth countries ) . |
| 16 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 17 | Claudia Schiffer , pouting Bardot of the Nineties , looks like a giggling girl in her cut-off hot pants and jacket — a far cry from the sultry pictures we usually see . |
| 18 | Combined with better recognition algorithms we now see the advent of the pen-based or ‘ notepad ’ computer . |
| 19 | While for those thrust into a position of ‘ ritual liminality ’ there is the possibility of becoming ‘ men apart ’ , of standing aside and though not necessarily following political alternatives posed by any counter-culture , undertaking the hero 's journey merely by seeking to comment on the social condition they now see with new eyes . |
| 20 | When the Home Secretary talked of the need for the Government to give a lead in tackling racial disadvantage he therefore saw this as in issue for the longer term . |
| 21 | Even as he did get his bearings a great tree swirled towards him out of the night and a rook he never saw rose up in alarm , cawing darkly away into the storm . |
| 22 | Of the last decision he says : ‘ Most of the winter I never see daylight . |
| 23 | My personal thoughts are of a collection of official Junkers models I once saw in Frankfurt , these included an F.13 and most unusual , a Ju52/3m floatplane all sectioned-off to show not only technical , but also cabin accommodation details . |
| 24 | She looked very peaceful , like a girl I once saw who had drowned . |
| 25 | he was the finest fast bowler I ever saw . |
| 26 | Recalling , no doubt , the sad disruptions of her own early life , she declared that ‘ our grand study has been to make him happy ’ , and added that under their Rousseau-inspired regime , in which Basil was taught nothing ‘ but what he learns from the evidence of his senses ’ , he had become ‘ certainly the most contented child I ever saw ; the least disposed to be fretful . ’ |
| 27 | Simon Simon I just saw that hand . |
| 28 | Ireland are still playing a style of rugby you only see when watching an old black and white Pathe News reel . |
| 29 | ‘ Ginger ’ Neil was not impressed with what he saw , and described 261 as ‘ the most motley crowd of goons you ever saw in your life — ferry pilots who had been formed into a squadron . ’ |
| 30 | It is a trait she rarely sees in the very young . |