Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MUSLIM woman who has not seen her bridegroom since the day of a registrar 's office wedding had her marriage annulled yesterday by a Scottish judge . |
| 2 | Despite problems of cutbacks and a diminution of services , more than two-thirds of nurses quizzed still see their future with the National Health Service . |
| 3 | ‘ Victoria has n't seen her father for months . |
| 4 | I think I 'd better see you face to face . |
| 5 | From the normative point of view , too , the approach to price theory adopted here sees its function in a way that is not related in any essential manner to the state of affairs at equilibrium . |
| 6 | Nigel was paid for his work , but he hated not seeing his piece in print . |
| 7 | Jonathan Ripman , mitigating , said Youds , who had no previous motoring convictions , had been rushing home to see his family in Liverpool . |
| 8 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 9 | I turned round to see what sort of bastard it was . |
| 10 | ‘ He walked in to see her standing in the kitchen naked with burnt pubic hair , ’ said Mr Godsmark . |
| 11 | I remember once seeing her turn into our gateway , and a boy on a bicycle spat at her . |
| 12 | That was one thing about the village , and your your neighbour would where Jane is the now , I do n't think she 'll have hardly seen her neighbour in Dumfries , but here they were always you know |
| 13 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 14 | He 's been to say that Bernard has put his wrist out , and it being Danny 's day off he went for Bill , but Bill 's gone over to see his mother in Consett , so he says , what about it , sir ? ’ |
| 15 | So er I thought a alright then , so I I went off like and I just heard erm and said , I went up to see her mother like and , I told her mother about it , like and that and erm her mother says different now , that she came round to see me at the time to tell , to give me a telling off like over her friend . |
| 16 | The clerk was instructed to inform Mr. Johnson however that the guardians ‘ did not see their way to continuing supplying champagne ’ . |
| 17 | In general lay members did not see their role as an enabling one and do not play a particularly active role in hearings . |
| 18 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 19 | I did n't see what kind of weapon it was that caused the injury . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I was lucky , they did n't see me escape through another door . |
| 21 | Yeah , I did n't see which sort of |
| 22 | In the event , Robbie did n't see her family at all . |
| 23 | There was nothing symbolic in my reflections — I did n't see my mother as a butcher of fish or of me . |
| 24 | I do n't see their relevance in our circumstances . |
| 25 | Fathers do n't have the sole authority in the home and mothers do n't see their role as servants to men . |
| 26 | Children learn it by rote to pass examinations , and they do n't see its relevance to the world around them . |
| 27 | It depresses me that people do n't see our sense of humour , ’ says Steve , Bruce Forsyth style . |
| 28 | We knew very little about these last clients of the season except that they were two attorneys and a proctologist , all from Georgia and all vacationing with their wives , and we also knew that one of the wives was a vegetarian and that the proctologist hated pasta , but beyond that our guests were utter strangers and so we waited nervously to see what kind of people would be our companions and paymasters for the next week . |
| 29 | I 've only seen my daughter-in-law for three minutes since I got the news . |
| 30 | He finished the glass of Kir and decided that he had better see his controller in person . |