Example sentences of "[verb] see [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 2 | She could not imagine who might want to see her at this time on a Saturday morning . |
| 3 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 5 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 6 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 7 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 8 | Now I want to see you in four weeks again . |
| 9 | I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’ |
| 10 | I 've come to see you under another guise . |
| 11 | Nobody has seen him since that day . |
| 12 | By the time the aged parents had arrived , Lisabeth was ensconced in my bedroom , the sleeping-bag ( which has seen me through three continents , two sit-ins , an eviction and a New Year 's Eve in Trafalgar Square , and which I called Hemingway ) in place on the sofa . |
| 13 | Charles put on a brave face to the world , but secretly he was in turmoil for many , many months ; and one other person who helped see him through this period was Diana . |
| 14 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 15 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 16 | But after a while he augmented the phone calls with occasional visits , and as the summer wore on came to see her with increasing regularity , eventually as often as his professional commitments allowed . |
| 17 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 18 | If you seek to see them with loving eyes , you will experience their beauty and be aware of their good points while making allowances for whatever may be lacking . |
| 19 | If the complex we observed was required for PPT expression we would expect to see it in these cells . |
| 20 | Seven student teachers will be taking their examinations on 21st and 28th March — we wish them luck and hope to see them at next Q.T. Day . |
| 21 | You know you wrote that letter and it said oh , I hope to see you in half term and then , then said I hope not |
| 22 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 23 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
| 24 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 25 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 26 | Heaven knows why , but numerous other GTi drivers seem to see us as some kind of personal challenge . |
| 27 | I 've the head of the Board of Tourism coming to see me in five minutes . ’ |
| 28 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 29 | He would have seen it as infantile behaviour . |
| 30 | I would n't have seen you for another hour . |