Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] see [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its enormous membership , the LNU in the 1920s had not been a popular movement — it did not see its function primarily as campaigning to change Government policy . |
| 2 | But the first generation did not see their opportunities as restricted : migration itself was an optimistic move . |
| 3 | The clerk was instructed to inform Mr. Johnson however that the guardians ‘ did not see their way to continuing supplying champagne ’ . |
| 4 | In a poignant discussion of the hypothesis that Southern slave owners did not see their slaves as human beings he disagrees : |
| 5 | In general lay members did not see their role as an enabling one and do not play a particularly active role in hearings . |
| 6 | Dorothy did not see her brother again for nine years , and never once returned to the family home in Cockermouth before the death of her father in 1783 . |
| 7 | During 1986 , Mr Scott did once enter the kitchen , and when he did not see his wife assumed she was visiting relatives . |
| 8 | Looking at Winnie , who , it might be , closed her eyes that she did not see his teeth . |
| 9 | He probably did not see his wife or children while he remained there . |
| 10 | He did not see his assailants . |
| 11 | To the world , of course , I was busy , self-assured Mrs Sutherland ; the world did not see my breakwaters sinking lower every day . |
| 12 | I only hope she did not see my carriage ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You are saying that you did not see your brother alive again after the meal you had together yesterday evening . |
| 14 | They did n't see their prewar friends again and did n't replace them , it was hard to know why . |
| 15 | He did n't see her face . |
| 16 | In the event , Robbie did n't see her family at all . |
| 17 | I did n't see her hit you I want to hit you sometimes , except I do n't . |
| 18 | erm because we did n't see her last week . |
| 19 | I did n't see her mind . |
| 20 | ‘ You did n't see his face ? ’ |
| 21 | One of them — I did n't see his face — looked like a soldier . ’ |
| 22 | She did n't see his face change , eyes lighting with anger , rejection ; the first she knew was when he knocked his plate crashing across the room and yelled , ‘ To hell with you , then ! ’ |
| 23 | He did n't see his task as correcting the ways of men who had strayed into crime and needed help ; he and his warders existed to protect society from the kind of human garbage locked within the walls of Whitely . |
| 24 | And I still think one of the oddest things in this case is why Stratton did n't see his wife safely up to her room . |
| 25 | He did n't see his auntie as well then ? |
| 26 | I came up , did n't see his door , went through the gap and wham , bam . |
| 27 | No I did n't s er s I did n't see his door open . |
| 28 | I did n't see his mother |
| 29 | ‘ I know it meant that you did n't see your father but — ’ |
| 30 | Right , well I 'm going to reply to the debate , and then I hope we can move to a vote , ah , oh I did n't see your hand earlier Mr , I 'm sorry . |