Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd better see for myself . |
| 2 | I 'd better see what I looked like . |
| 3 | I 'd better see if I can help . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , I suppose I 'd better see what translation the TARDIS computer can offer of these papers . ’ |
| 5 | I was going to take them , I was going to take them , and I said , Oh I 'd better , I 'd better see Dr first . |
| 6 | " I 'd better see them on their way . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better see who it is , ’ he said savagely as she rolled away from him , allowing him to ease himself off the bed to gather his trousers from the floor . |
| 8 | I think I 'd better see you face to face . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd better see them first . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd better see him on my own . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd better see how much |
| 12 | So we end up dissociating one piece of behaviour from another : in ‘ blindsight ’ , the verbal response ‘ No , I did not see the light ’ is dissociated from the ability to move the eyes towards the light . |
| 13 | As I drove into Brighton , I did not see one sign to the Labour Party conference , but many directing me to something called Bodytalk . |
| 14 | ‘ I did not see any interference , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I did not see Richard Langhorn being kicked by Ian Davies . |
| 16 | Still — ‘ I did not see him again and I did not want to ’ . |
| 17 | The only woman I had anything to do with regularly was my mother , aid except at meals aid bed time I did not see much even of my mother . |
| 18 | They regarded no convention , and I did not see till later that their unconvention was almost as intolerant as my parents , convention. , Helen stayed with Mrs Logan — who was awaiting a divorce — dating Edward 's first year at Lincoln . |
| 19 | I did not see Jordi again , except for one brief encounter in Salamanca . |
| 20 | Of course I did not see it like that at the time . |
| 21 | I did not see why he should have piano lessons when I was told I was too young ; so I hid behind the curtains and listened to what he was being taught . |
| 22 | I DID not see the London Marathon this weekend , and so can not complain about it too loudly , but my heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who found themselves confronted by 25,000 runners , all anxious to show how goodhearted they were and what fun they were having . |
| 23 | Wendy was still living in Old Wolverton , and because of her shift work I did not see her very often ; and most of those with whom I had been friendliest were billeted in outlying areas . |
| 24 | I did not see the production until the following Christmas , when it contained an amusing touch which I imagine John must have added that year , after Leonide Massine had revived The Three-cornered Hat at Covent Garden : Hansel and Gretel danced a few steps with a bunch of grapes , a good-humoured quotation from the dance of the miller and his wife in Massine 's ballet . |
| 25 | I did not see it until I was standing on it . |
| 26 | I did not see le Grand Charles myself . |
| 27 | John Conway , a mathematician at Cambridge University , had already developed a similar but more poetic notation but I did not see this until the summer of 1979 . |
| 28 | I prepared myself for the baton change as Mac set off on his leg , so I did not see what happened there . |
| 29 | I decided to spend three nights watching the Peckoltias when they would be at their most active to gauge the aggression that — during the day — I did not see . |
| 30 | ‘ I did not see the television , as even my friends who had it had not the Independent ; and the only person who saw it seemed to be the greengrocer , who naturally had everything . |