Example sentences of "i see [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | IT FRIGHTENED me to see just how addicted our youngsters have become to computer games after reading of the 15,000-strong crowd at the Future Entertainment Show at Earls Court . |
2 | All those who were kind enough to offer me hospitality wanted me to see as much as possible in the time when I was not teaching . |
3 | Why have I seen only three Harmony guitars for sale in your classified section since 1990 ? |
4 | Never before , he wrote , have I seen so clearly how to end . |
5 | Seldom before had I seen so many priests and nuns on the streets or as many churches per square mile . |
6 | I thought it might be frozen all over , like a picture I seen once with all these people skating on the ice , but it ai n't . |
7 | Erm Jill can I see please . |
8 | Can I see upstairs ? ’ |
9 | Can I see then all those in favour of the resolution as amended ? |
10 | The upshot was I saw exactly what not to do with my life . |
11 | After a couple of days I saw Shelly outside . |
12 | We continued unimpeded until I saw ahead of me the drawing-room where I had interviewed Mountbatten , and sitting on one of the sofas with his back to us the unmistakable profile and balding head of Prince Charles . |
13 | A dip in the hill , much like those at Sulber Nick and Kirkby Nick , led over the crest by an outcrop and as I walked out from the dip I saw ahead of me Raydale with , to my left , Semer Water and Addlebrough behind it . |
14 | ‘ After what I saw here today , I do n't believe you 're afraid of anything . ’ |
15 | and I saw just how bony my legs were . |
16 | For the first time I saw clearly that it would be impossible to go through the rest of my life with a barrier in my mind between the baby and its conception . |
17 | But then what — ’ And I stopped as light flooded my mind and I saw clearly the chain of circumstances which connected us . |
18 | One of the most striking facts of the Commonwealth , as I saw clearly at the Commonwealth conference in Harare , is the immense affection and admiration that exists for Her Majesty the Queen among all Commonwealth leaders and countries . |
19 | I gathered from Anthony ( whom I saw later on Thursday ) that he had neither been asked for his advice nor had volunteered it . |
20 | I saw Yet drag himself up , eyes charged with fear , and make for the door to the lower regions . |
21 | I saw little actually changing hands , apart from a pedigree pup and a painting . |
22 | We stopped briefly at Recife ( which is quite near the equator ) and Rio de Janeiro before coming to Sao Paulo airport , but it was night time at Recife , and it was early morning with an overcast sky at Rio , so I saw little . |
23 | I saw today . |
24 | The centre , I saw briefly , was occupied by a large boat on blocks , its superstructure covered with lightweight grey plastic sheeting . |
25 | Looking over the heads of the children at the end of this tale , I saw slowly coming towards us , a large brown spiky thing as big as a room , with a dozen legs walking slowly and carefully under it . |
26 | The card , crudely coloured , showed a picture of a church labelled as St Stephen 's Basilica , although I saw immediately that architecturally it was not a basilica . |
27 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
28 | Erm which I saw again in Marks this year which you could wear tucked in with a belt . |
29 | I saw Best play a few times . |
30 | ‘ I saw exactly what he did and if it had n't been for Stuart those thieves would have got away . |