Example sentences of "see [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 2 | He said he was n't when he came to see me a couple of years back . |
| 3 | She came to see me a year later , total loss of weight , total short of breath , hardly , she 's struggling to keep body and soul together . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't mind seeing them a long way off , ’ said the worried lady nome . |
| 5 | ‘ But seeing me a little disconcerted by his remark , he politely added , ‘ and with great propriety ’ . ’ |
| 6 | You 'd only seen me a couple of times , and then you were n't exactly falling over yourself to speak to me ! ’ she spat back . |
| 7 | I 've only ever seen you a couple of times , with your dad at matches . ’ |
| 8 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 9 | ‘ Only that Frank has seen him a number of times coming out of a special house down there . |
| 10 | Not as we seen him a lot but least he could come and say alright . |
| 11 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 12 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 13 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 14 | Oh I 've seen it a couple of times , yeah . |
| 15 | Mm I 've seen it a U as well I must admit . |
| 16 | In both cases the idea of purpose is only a metaphor , but we have already seen what a fruitful metaphor it is in the case of genes . |
| 17 | We have seen what a struggle it must have been for men in the late 18th century to keep body and soul together — how much worse , then , for their womenfolk . |
| 18 | Someone should have seen what a good wife she would have made . |
| 19 | I 'd want to go on seeing you a lot , though . ’ |
| 20 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 21 | Jennifer could you ask Mr if he could just pop in and see me a minute . |
| 22 | Cos I 'm doing some mobile , well I 'm hoping to get some mobile around Ruddington before it opens and so people can see me a bit before . |
| 23 | Yeah , well let's see yours a minute . |
| 24 | Ricky can I see yours a sec ? |
| 25 | We will see you a professor one day . ’ |
| 26 | We will see you a professor one day . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We 'll see you a week today , then , ’ she enthused , ‘ We 'll look forward — ’ |
| 28 | and I 'll see you a week on Friday |
| 29 | Right we 'll see you an hour and a half from now . |
| 30 | Only in mathematics do we see a successful artificial and international language , though when we come to talk about visual language we may see something a little like it ; and music might count as a language , though one in which it is hard to say anything very definite . |