Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] see [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because I always went there in the heat of the afternoon , I rarely saw anyone in the gardens . |
| 2 | No , I rarely see her after the show . |
| 3 | ‘ I only see her at the office . |
| 4 | I suddenly saw her as the shuttlecock in the game her husband is playing with his inamorata . |
| 5 | In fact , I just saw him in the flesh , bruised as that might be . ’ |
| 6 | Yes , I just saw you at the crossroads you see |
| 7 | I said to her , ‘ I 'm not willing to argue with you here because it would get me into trouble but if I ever saw you on the street I would ’ . |
| 8 | But I still see you by the bed that time . |
| 9 | ‘ I hardly see you in the role of agony aunt , ’ Lissa said tightly . |
| 10 | I never saw her in the daytime . |
| 11 | and I 'd had a and er they , I never saw them on the floor . |
| 12 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 13 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 14 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's difficult to work out somebody 's background when you only see them on the ski-slopes or fooling around après-ski . |
| 16 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |
| 17 | His parents were Anglo-Welsh , his father a beer-drinking , musical miner killed in a pit accident when the boy was fourteen ; his mother dogged , the one who bound a steel hoop of gentility around her Philip , the one who somehow saw him to the University of Wales from which he emerged aged twenty with a double honours degree in History and Mathematics . |
| 18 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel very angry that you always see me in the same negative way . |
| 20 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 21 | You ca I mean you occasionally see it in the fish markets . |
| 22 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 23 | you never see them on the motorways |
| 24 | you never see them across the other side |
| 25 | Did you never see him at the City of the Horizon ? |
| 26 | when you actually see it on the floor , it looks totally different |
| 27 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 28 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 29 | One always sees them at the airport in Geneva — they 've got a numbered bank account in Switzerland |
| 30 | Tony Soper was Nature 's early-riser and this programme suggested it is something of a habit with him , for we also saw him in the Falklands carrying out an investigation into whether the war — or was it just a conflict ? — had upset the wildlife there . |