Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old and lonely are very vulnerable , and if you have sounded detached , preoccupied , or hurried during the conversation they can easily feel hurt and rejected ; and that hurt can be like an emotional graze that will remain painful until you are able to see them again and heal it . |
| 2 | Happily she waved back , realising just how pleased she was to see them again and when , moments later , she climbed into the crowded bus with David behind her she was deafened by welcoming voices . |
| 3 | and then I come back and then I went to see them again and they were all on a great big table as though they were celebrating a party and Joyce said er |
| 4 | And you really have to see them before and after . |
| 5 | We should not have expected to see them there if we went again . |
| 6 | He bored easily and though he loved beautiful women of all dimensions and aspects , he had rarely bothered to see them twice if there was not some fire of the spirit or intelligence to intrigue him . |
| 7 | Overall , the most fruitful way to examine the interaction of courts , executives and assemblies is to see them all as engaged in a continuous process by which the law and rights are constantly being defined and redefined . |
| 8 | I was in the bank , so he came to see me there and introduced himself . |
| 9 | I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk . |
| 10 | Their sensual lives consisted in picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them , perhaps only seeing them once or twice more , or never again . |
| 11 | Jack grew dizzy as he thought of it , seeing them sitting with tall glasses on a shady patio and , strangely , seeing them too as they were now , untouched by the hand of time . |
| 12 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 13 | I just looked down , I seen it then and ah nelly . |
| 14 | I was glad he had n't seen me either as I hurried away in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | but er otherwise I 'll , I 'll would n't , I never want to go back to Nazeing not after now and , and now the , this new town we were taken shopping the other Tuesday , it was really lovely and we see all the shops , first time I 've really seen them properly and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and we were all given erm in a , is it Blockers one of the shops ? |
| 16 | I 've seen her , well yeah I 've seen them both but I do n't know them , never spoken to them . |
| 17 | ‘ Seen you before but I ca n't think who you are ’ sort of look . |
| 18 | I knew I 'd seen you before and I could n't think where . ’ |
| 19 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 20 | He did not know the man 's name but was certain he had seen him before and believed he knew where he worked . |
| 21 | I had seen him now and again during those ten years , before his sacking . |
| 22 | I had seen him once before when he had waved to me from an upper window and I had waved back . |
| 23 | I 've seen him once and will try to photograph him . ’ |
| 24 | She had read about him in the newspapers , seen him once or twice on television , seen photographs of him in magazines . |
| 25 | And they might n't have seen her yet if Ronni had n't spoken , so totally absorbed were they in one another . |
| 26 | Well I 've , I 've seen her today but she said she 'd er get me some socks and that out for , out for Lianne . |
| 27 | Japan had never seen her before and she is now so popular there she could not fail really . |
| 28 | She was thinner than when Carrie had seen her before and had a transparent look , like a skeleton leaf : all her veins and bones showing . |
| 29 | I think my G P actually sent me further down hill into anorexia after I 'd lost about , about when I was seven stone I went to see her , I 'd never seen her before and she said well you look perfectly acc , sociably acceptable to me so I went on to lose two more stone before going back to see her and was admitted to hospital as a medical emergency ! |
| 30 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |