Example sentences of "we [vb past] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We failed to see there would come a point where additional leisure would become more stultifying than satisfying and that the mass of men would be incapable of absorbing any more , ’ wrote the Harvard sociologist , David Riesman . |
| 2 | Just when we expected to see Cordoba produce an extra gear as Walter Swinburn got to work with the whip , the son of El Gran Senor capitulated and it was Balla Cove who produced extra reserves to hold the late thrust of Rock City . |
| 3 | It was the day before we expected to see Treasure Island . |
| 4 | ‘ The overall incidence profile is exactly what we expected to see . |
| 5 | Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space . |
| 6 | When we asked to see the tape on Thursday , the Beeb said it had mysteriously disappeared without authorisation . |
| 7 | ‘ When we asked to see test results so we could recommend the products with some confidence we were told that the data was confidential , between Colin Isaacs and Loblaws . ’ |
| 8 | What with all the activity associated with moving house , it was two weeks before we got to see Arthur 's famous castle . |
| 9 | We got to see a man . ’ |
| 10 | First we got to see Joey B. Where is he ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If we stopped seeing each other that would solve the problem , would n't it ? ’ |
| 12 | We tried to see into it , and wondered what horrible thing would appear . |
| 13 | Though Chrysler turned them down , the size of the bids intrigued Chrysler 's management : ’ We tried to see what outsiders saw in getting more from Acustar , ’ says Mr Gerald Greenwald , Chrysler 's vice-chairman . |
| 14 | ‘ In my boyhood we yearned to see the Poms defeated . ’ |
| 15 | In my boyhood , we yearned to see the Poms defeated . |
| 16 | ‘ We came to see your eyelashes , Deirdre , ’ Antony said in a soft , taunting voice . |
| 17 | And anyway , it was you we came to see . ’ |
| 18 | When they called on us , they would always say to Mum , ‘ Fanny , we came to see how you are getting on , but we can only stay a few minutes . ’ |
| 19 | We came to see how the prison is run . |
| 20 | ‘ In fact it was you we came to see . ’ |
| 21 | His dry sense of humour spilled over into what might have been a harrowing session and by carefully chosen words and clear illustrations we came to see the value of the painstaking work required by those at the scene of a major accident . |
| 22 | We came to see your play last night and we were absolutely disgusted . |
| 23 | If we 'd seen loads and loads of Soviet bodies , we would have felt it was true . |
| 24 | Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we 'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels . |
| 25 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 26 | We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke . |
| 27 | ‘ We all left the theatre with smiles — thinking not what an authentic production we 'd seen but how much we 'd enjoyed 18th century theatre ’ EARLY MUSIC NEWS |
| 28 | I do n't see them very often but when we meet it 's as though we 'd seen each other yesterday . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'd seen enough burnt-out buses after Mrs Gandhi 's assassination and we all of us in private had our own fears . |
| 30 | I knew he had something more than Liza and me because we 'd seen him when he had his bath and when he lay in bed in his short shirt . |