Example sentences of "[pron] see [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack . |
| 2 | I was anxious to settle the terms of the contract with M. Chaillot and , because I wanted to avoid being cornered by him in Passy , I suggested to Jean-Claude that he make an appointment for me to see him at the radio , mid-morning , on a date when I had a luncheon appointment . |
| 3 | No-one seeing her on the move , rushing headlong through drear fuming tunnels , would really note the missing arms and absent tail , the sealed face , the scarlet sash . |
| 4 | I seen it on the News — |
| 5 | " I seen him in the street Sunday , " said Fat Paul . |
| 6 | I meant , why have n't I seen you outside the theatre ? |
| 7 | I flash upon my own family ; the way I have to think a moment before deciding who to include in my family , whether to include the step-parents or the siblings on my father 's side whom I would not know should I see them on the street , the hastiness of Mom and Larry on Sunday swirls between galleries and sushi , untapered by excess or sentimentality , busy with books and foreign films and the Sunday supplement of the New York Times , the wisdom of Ivy Leagues and schedules too dense to live by , to wake by , to sleep and breathe by . |
| 8 | What time shall I see you in the morning ? ’ |
| 9 | The C-in-C was sending his car for her , and when it arrived , I saw her to the quay . |
| 10 | I saw her at the window when we arrived . |
| 11 | I saw her at the butcher 's this morning . |
| 12 | I saw her on the way to the doctors and she 'd thought she 'd got chicken pox . |
| 13 | ‘ She looked well enough to me when I saw her on the cake section of the WI stall yesterday morning ! ’ |
| 14 | I know I saw her on the corner there |
| 15 | Yeah I mean when I saw her round the park she said oh I 'm really enjoying it this |
| 16 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 17 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 18 | I saw her in the crowd outside the ship as they sealed the lock . ’ |
| 19 | I saw her in the paper shop this morning . |
| 20 | I saw her from the window , walking upright on two canes without a pause and there were twenty cliffside steps from the gate to my borrowed front door . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw him at the tow-lift earlier , ’ she revealed . |
| 22 | The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw him at the Jobcentre a lot . |
| 24 | Aye I saw him down the pub . |
| 25 | I saw him to the door and watched him pace away along the streets he knew better than most others in London . |
| 26 | ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship . |
| 27 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 28 | ‘ Tuppe , I saw him on the television set . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the Americans ’ first goal against England . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the first goal against England . |