Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb mod] see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | bluecollar gipsy I can see it in your eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ In that case I 'll see him now , then he 'll be able to go ashore . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Right , in that case I 'll see them now . ’ |
| 4 | In that case I 'll see you later . ’ |
| 5 | Through a tear in the singlet I could see his rib bones sticking out . |
| 6 | As an islander I can see something of both points of view , and I have been aware of a sense of embarrassment in some of my Faroese friends that the outside world should think of them as ‘ barbarians ’ . |
| 7 | Mum flopped down in her chair and did n't say a word but by her look I could see I would suffer for it later . |
| 8 | ‘ This one sounds quite promising , but of course I must see him first — one ca n't always tell from the application , he added primly . |
| 9 | With a bit of luck I 'll see you tomorrow . ’ |
| 10 | Then with luck I 'll see my dear wife before midnight . ’ |
| 11 | We shall have to consider the sub judice rule in relation to what is said , but at present I can see nothing sub judice in this matter . |
| 12 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 13 | From my seat I could see your profile . |
| 14 | I nodded to them , but when they looked at me I turned away quickly , for fear I should see them exchange puzzled glances . |
| 15 | She said that if I stood in my doorway I could see her face , for the girl was not veiled . |
| 16 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 17 | Kukuli was Quechua for ‘ beautiful bird ’ and even in the dim light of the carriage I could see she had eyes like stars . |
| 18 | However , if you attempt to arrest any man or woman here on a charge of vagrancy I will see they are defended in your court — and in any higher court to which they may be sent for trial . |
| 19 | I do n't know wen I 'll see you agen , but I 'm sorry for the things I did , and I 'm ashamd . |
| 20 | Me — at a health farm — it 's the last place I could see myself , especially with my build which resembles that of a heavyweight wrestler but without the muscles ! |
| 21 | I keep my distance and do not look at him , though from the comer of my eye I can see him so smartly attired , decked out in scarves and jumpers , set to brace the cold and the street at any hour . |
| 22 | from the corner of my eye I can see his partner , tangled with his chair in the dirt behind the portacabin . |
| 23 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 24 | From my second-floor vantage point I could see my classmates as they tumbled out into the quad playing catch with my shoes . |
| 25 | Just as my son entered our room I could see them , seven or eight hefty white boys entering through the door downstairs . |
| 26 | Only her red mouth glowed , and even from across the room I could see it smiling straight at me , the lips shining in the light as though she had just licked them , as though they were still moist . |
| 27 | One day I 'll see what this creature looks like . ’ |
| 28 | There were curtains dangling above my head , and under the frill I could see it was starting to get light . |
| 29 | Even at this distance I could see he was liberally spattered with yellow paint . |
| 30 | So it 's in a minute I should see him |