Example sentences of "that i see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 2 | It was n't until later that I saw what ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ was capable of , in Block 10 . |
| 3 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 4 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 5 | And , though I hate to admit it , the fact that I saw him differently was Sophie 's doing . |
| 6 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 7 | I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him . |
| 8 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 9 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 10 | It was then that I saw her wild , inhuman face ! |
| 11 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 12 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 13 | So the decision was made for me , you see , it was only afterwards that I saw I had taken quite a step — a leap in the dark , in fact . |
| 14 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 15 | You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident . |
| 16 | It was n't until much later that I saw it metaphorically . |
| 17 | that 's the way that I saw it . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw you , it means nothing that I saw you … |
| 19 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 20 | I am ushered reverently into a cabin and pick up the quaint hand set , which has an additional round earpiece for clamping over the spare ear , so that I see myself reflected in the glass like a radio operator or a session singer . |
| 21 | ‘ It is important that I see her . ’ |
| 22 | In the end , it 's on that rainy promenade that I see her . |
| 23 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
| 24 | ‘ As far as I am concerned diving is not an excessive calorie-consuming sport , and certainly from the numbers of divers that I see who are overweight , I do not actually believe that the statement in ‘ The Great Diving Adventure ’ , by Horace Hobbs , is actually borne out . |
| 25 | He takes good care that I see it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I hope you realise that it is only on account of the entreaty of Taheb that I see you , Huy , ’ were his words of greeting . |
| 27 | Now , I must say that I see there is a point of charging for every television set , erm , I do n't have any er , er objection to that , but one rider , that senior citizens should be helped . |