Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one thing we will learn from it I think , if we 're honest with ourselves , and we put , and try and save up and have a piece on the end there , but the one thing I think we will perhaps come to , and the one conclusion we may come to , is the fact that whilst we , we do live in this world and I absolutely agree that if somebody says , look I need to see a new as well , I need to see you now , or I need to see you tomorrow , that 'll be difficult , O K , and that 's the immediacy of the business . |
| 2 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 3 | From where she stood it shimmered in silver under a glancing sun , though upstream at the inn , where she had seen it close to , it rolled darkly brown and turgid , and laden with the debris of bushes , for the spring thaw had come late and violently , bringing down an immense weight of snow-water from the mountains of Wales . |
| 4 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 5 | In the past , as we have seen in earlier chapters , teachers have either confined themselves almost entirely to one or the other of the modes ( using terms like ‘ creative drama ’ in opposition to ‘ theatre ’ ) or they have seen them as separate stages in the child 's education . |
| 6 | The girls were still there , standing where he had seen them earlier . |
| 7 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 8 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 9 | I was unsure whether to make her Northern , like my own mother , which works wonderfully well with Zelma-like lines , eg. ‘ If you were me , would you wear the blue dress with the beading that everyone 's seen me in , or the new one I 've kept hanging up for two years ? ’ or ‘ Sha n't I buy the beef , then ? |
| 10 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 11 | ‘ No , not Rhoda Brocklebank , although I have seen her , in fact she has helped . |
| 12 | At the same time , I was refusing for her to be brought to the prison because although I wanted to see her more than anything , I was damn sure she was n't going to come to prison and see me . |
| 13 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 14 | No I was thinking that I 've seen her perhaps I was thinking , you know , you remind me of it . |
| 15 | No , now that I 've seen it . |
| 16 | I say I am bored , and that I hope to see him that evening . |
| 17 | I told Spruce a bit about Amy and Hereward 's marriage and I did mention that I 'd seen her here on Friday night and Saturday morning . |
| 18 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 19 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 20 | When we met again at the funeral , I knew that I had to see you again soon . |
| 21 | But I 'd already decided that I had to see you again , spend some time with you , and this was one way of doing it . ’ |
| 22 | She did n't realise , you see , that I had followed them , that I had seen them here together — and knew what they were planning . |
| 23 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 24 | " Some dogs do get over it , Wes. i did n't tell him that I had seen it happen only once . |
| 25 | In paying my respects and tribute to the bereaved of the two soldiers and the young man killed , I am tempted to say that I thought that I had seen it all . |
| 26 | ‘ As long as you remember that I want to see you as little as possible . |
| 27 | ‘ You forget , ’ Dorothea said gently , ‘ you forget that I have seen him . ’ |
| 28 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 29 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 30 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |