Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |
| 2 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 3 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 4 | My mum come up to see me and asked me what the bandage was for and I told her I 'd burnt myself . |
| 5 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 6 | When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’ |
| 7 | I offered my thanks to the interviewer for seeing me and shook his/her hand at the end . |
| 8 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 9 | I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me . |
| 10 | ‘ But they have long since vanished from Ireland , Fergus , and it may be that I will be the last Queen to have seen them and heard them . |
| 11 | For a year he had neither seen her nor permitted her name to be spoken in his hearing . |
| 12 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 13 | His newborn son 's face he could still recall vividly and sometimes did in his dreams , that white unsullied look of sweet knowledgeable contentment , as if , in a brief moment of life , he had seen and known all there was to know , seen it and rejected it . |
| 14 | The accidental loss or destruction of a will has no effect upon its validity , and its contents may be proved by the production of copies or drafts , or even by the recollection of persons who have seen it or heard it read . |
| 15 | ‘ I was lucky that he was worried about who might see us and allowed me to get away . |
| 16 | On the wall , the new star mounted a photograph of Gene Kelly , who came to see him and told him how proud he was of his performance , and painted on the door were the words ‘ Ginger Crawford ’ . |
| 17 | Hayling had seemed unusually pleased to see him and offered him some champagne . |
| 18 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 19 | This realisation touched him , took the shock of seeing her and softened it . |
| 20 | On several occasions I saw them and watched them while bombs were falling in the neighbourhood and air raids were overhead and asked them questions relating to war , sirens , etc … |
| 21 | I expect he felt it was all over when he saw me and realised our relationship . |
| 22 | Zak flashed a glance at the crew , saw me and gave me a thumbs-up sign . |
| 23 | Bunny saw me and gave me a brief nod , then went back to talking to a young black dude wearing a blue trenchcoat and nursing a colour-co-ordinated Filofax . |
| 24 | He turned round when he saw me and waved his hammer . |
| 25 | We saw you but did you have to come running over |
| 26 | Our lookout man on the forecastle reported her as close to our port bow , where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her as did our quarter-deck midshipman , who was sent forward at once to the forecastle to report back . |
| 27 | A former colleague from Usher saw her and thought she looked very thin . |
| 28 | She was running wildly when the two college students saw her and recognised her from the party as Greg 's girlfriend . |
| 29 | They saw him and kicked their horses forward so Sharpe turned his tired mare northwards , and spurred her into a gallop . |
| 30 | The Eel came round the bushes , saw him and cried his triumph . |