Example sentences of "[pron] see [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw her with black hair and I told her it was great , but she prefers to be blonde . |
| 2 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 3 | I saw him with that Jones girl , ’ answered his sister Dorothy . |
| 4 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 5 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
| 6 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
| 7 | well I 've never got any , I saw it in this shop |
| 8 | But I want to hear now the whole story of your life , and how you came to be with the boys I saw you with that day . ’ |
| 9 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
| 10 | It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle … |
| 11 | It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle … |
| 12 | CHARLES : Well , frankly , the problem as I see it At this moment in time is whether I Should just lie down under all this hassle And let them walk all over me , Or , whether I should just say : ‘ OK , I get the message ’ , and do myself in . |
| 13 | The task of the theist , as I see it in this book , is to define what he or she means by the word ‘ God ’ , and to give some evidence for believing that this Deity exists . |
| 14 | Are women being exploited by a system which sees them as easy targets ? |
| 15 | Kahnweiler throughout his life was to maintain that the painting was unfinished , and on occasion was even to assert that Picasso himself saw it in this way . |
| 16 | Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown . |
| 17 | It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are |
| 18 | Have you , have you seen him since that time when you said to him about coming . |
| 19 | Did you see you with that gas that advert she did with that poor woman ! |
| 20 | JEREMY Irons says his wife does n't worry when she sees him in sexy scenes on the big screen because she knows he 's not that good . |
| 21 | As she turned she saw him with startling clarity , brightly instantaneous as a camera flash . |
| 22 | She saw him from fifty yards away , coming towards her ; then he spotted her and when they came together he was smiling and had a hand outstretched with which he took her elbow . |
| 23 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 24 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 25 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 26 | What are the problems as you see them in this neighbourhood ? |
| 27 | ( Even if you see it in other people , you might well not see it in yourself . ) |
| 28 | Wherever you see it in this brochure , you can be confident of very high standards . |
| 29 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 30 | One saw it in extreme form in the 1960s , with Alan Sharp and Archie Hind , and in a quiet way with William McIlvanney . |