Example sentences of "i see this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it was so easy for me to see this evidence and to talk to those who had substantial proof of their ownership of homes in mandate Palestine , surely it would be no more difficult to go to Israel , find those same homes and — the idea had a special excitement about it — to knock on those same front doors . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you shall have it as you wish , though it goes against the grain with me to see this fellow go free . |
| 3 | ‘ You want me to see this guy , sir ? ’ |
| 4 | What is this anthropomorphism , and why do I see this landscape as male ? |
| 5 | Gets up in the morning I sees this pair of red shoes , I thought oh you stupid cow . |
| 6 | Léonie said very fast : what happened was I saw this person all in red . |
| 7 | I saw this good-looking redhead with a bust to challenge Shakti 's — a sight which was getting rarer and rarer as women were made to get thinner and thinner for the convenience of the multi-billion dress designing industry , much easier and hence more economical and hence more profitable to clothe a bean pole than an hour glass — walking my way . |
| 8 | Looking around , I saw this man with a beard , who smelled nice and friendly , so I thought I 'd go and say ‘ hello ’ . |
| 9 | The one I saw this week at Hillier 's Arboretum , Ampfield , near Winchester , was already on the turn , with leaves orange and scarlet amidst clusters of large red haws , much bigger than those you find on wild hawthorns . |
| 10 | I saw this small sum not as a personal insult but as a gain for the charity I was supporting . |
| 11 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 12 | An artist friend once remarked : ‘ I saw this chap make something out of an ordinary piece of wood — he fashioned it into an exquisite work of art . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I saw this coming , ’ Dorothea said . |
| 14 | I saw this some time ago . |
| 15 | I saw this one bus thrown across the road . |
| 16 | When I saw this happening I began to watch more closely , and I saw that some nights even when she was n't up on the stage Madame had her eye on these two and would often look from one to the other and then back again . |
| 17 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
| 18 | Well , I called in there today for cigars and I saw this young woman ; and you remember the one that was in the sweet shop , she was so nice and obliging ; well I thought I was looking at her twin . |
| 19 | I saw this familiar — too familiar — fact at a different angle , and I was charmed and haunted by it . |
| 20 | I saw this frog as a small jewel box , a matrix in which the pure notes of music were formed and cut as by a skilled diamond cutter and then released as glittering , crystalline jewels . |
| 21 | It was not until I visited the SHAPE nursery in Belgium in 1969 , with my then grown-up daughter that I saw this again . |
| 22 | The first time I saw this I thought ‘ Oh God , not another Socratic dialogue ’ but I was impressed on reading it . |
| 23 | Seems like I saw this scene before on the Twilight Zone . |
| 24 | The magician who taught me this commented ‘ I saw this done with chopsticks and patter about a Chinese system of numerals . |
| 25 | When I got back to Australia , I saw this one in a music store and just had to have it . |
| 26 | I saw this old pamphlet for Shakin' Stevens from about 1971 and it said ‘ Thinking man 's rock'n'roll . |
| 27 | I saw this piece some time ago by Richard Burton in which he was talking about what happened to him when he gave up booze . |
| 28 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 29 | ‘ The personnel officer insisted I saw this 41-year-old woman when I was interviewing for a new secretary , ’ says Gina , a 30-year-old manager in a retail company . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw this Fiesta shoot past me sideways , bounce off the wall and pile into this group of kids , ’ he said . |