Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] see [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 2 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 3 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 4 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 5 | Well I 've seen 'em for a hundred now actually , a hundred quid . |
| 6 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 7 | ‘ I have to see someone for a minute . |
| 8 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 9 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 10 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 11 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 12 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |