Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] see [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 2 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 3 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 4 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 5 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 6 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 7 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 8 | But I was sure I had seen it after that , slinking , a shadow cat in the tree shadows , black as Egypt 's night . |
| 9 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 10 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 11 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 12 | He 'd seen her like this before , when she had her nose in those poetry books , and once when he 'd sneaked up the stairs and caught her using the telephone . |
| 13 | He 'd seen 'em like that afore and a good gallop put 'em right . |
| 14 | He liked seeing her like that , even although he was cowering under his coat collar trying to keep dry , still surprised at how easily it had gone at home . |
| 15 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 16 | What I still could n't understand was why he wanted to see me at all . |