Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] see [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I thought I 'd seen cloud on top on the hills . |
| 2 | ‘ Not only do I have Penny 's word for it , but I happened to see Nicky on television last night , participating in a chat show that always goes out live from a studio just two blocks away from our own building here . ’ |
| 3 | I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything … |
| 4 | ‘ I 've seen others about infertility , ’ she admitted over lunch . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've seen Madonna in person and , before that , I thought she was at least cute . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've seen women on stage here , ’ Owen objected . |
| 7 | But I 've seen pictures of Holiday in a beaded sheath just like that , taken well before the war , and publicity shots of some of those French singers or chanteuses coming down staircases in just the same sort of thing even earlier in the century . |
| 8 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
| 9 | I have seen clauses in record contracts which are absolutely meaningless and which I would happily have traded for a defined amount of money for a tour support , video , or promotional commitment . |
| 10 | I w I wanted to see Aspects of Love with Michael Caine in , I mean Michael Ball , but he 's not in it any more . |
| 11 | ‘ She gives new insights , new ways of looking at things … she helped me begin to see pain as gift and grace . ’ |
| 12 | She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation . |
| 13 | If you want to see hell on earth go to the condemned hole the night before execution day . |
| 14 | It 's at times like this you start to see things in perspective . ’ |
| 15 | You 've seen you 've seen figures for intestacy . |
| 16 | Ah 've seen pictures of drinkin' vessels where the only way of gettin' at the liquor is through the penis , but Ah 've never seen fellatio depicted or pictures of miniatures like this … |
| 17 | The princess decided she wanted to see Paris by night … from the well-known spots where lovers sit for hours on end . |
| 18 | Erm we expect to see improvements on chlorine , but I ca n't give you a time . |
| 19 | However , we did see sets of study skills booklets acquired through the project ( in one case being used in library lessons ) , and in another school project work originating in tutorial periods was being developed in study skills lessons with a view to using specific project purchases . |
| 20 | We do see scope for research into resource allocation but believe this ought to be quite different from the common practice of the 1980s of relating census variables to utilisation rates . |
| 21 | We 've seen treaties on er nuclear disarmament , we 've seen treaties on control of the Panama canal in recent years . |
| 22 | We 've seen loads of model guitars of late , but these are definitely some of the nicest . |
| 23 | And in Bosnia , in the very heart of a supposedly prosperous and civilised continent , we have seen acts of genocide and other war crimes comparable in horror to those of the Hitler and Stalin regimes . |
| 24 | Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said . |
| 25 | Lord Mayor Bill Egerton said : ‘ We have seen shards of glass embedded in the ground . |
| 26 | We have seen instances of equation between E and E , and between P and P. We assume that equations between P and E are fundamentally incoherent ( though see the remarks below , concerning ( 37 ) ) . |
| 27 | ‘ In Scotland we have seen employment in manufacturing tumble from 605,000 people in 1979 to 348,000 today . |
| 28 | Together they went to see Baldwin after dinner and persuaded him , apparently without great difficulty , to go out , if he had to , with a bang and not a whimper . |
| 29 | They have seen pictures of Iron Age encampments , but had done very little previous work on the topic before starting on the drama . |
| 30 | They wanted to see a battleship launched , they wanted to see Royalty in action , they wanted to see anything that was happening which was an event in the world , and so cameramen like George Albert Smith , and eventually George Albert Smith 's staff , would go out around the world , much as it would happen now but in a much simpler way , erm to make actuality pictures . |