Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] 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 w I wanted to see Aspects of Love with Michael Caine in , I mean Michael Ball , but he 's not in it any more . |
| 5 | She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation . |
| 6 | The princess decided she wanted to see Paris by night … from the well-known spots where lovers sit for hours on end . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What was involved in this extension of structural linguistics was a profound alteration of perspective in most of the human sciences ; it was no longer a question of gathering empirically verifiable data ; of turning a positivist gaze onto a world of objects , but it meant seeing forms of expression as signs whose meanings depend on conventions , relations and systems , rather than on any inherent features . |
| 11 | He had seen Hugo from time to time in the intervening years ; he knew from Hugo 's cousin Christian that his former tutor had fallen on hard times . |
| 12 | Rex Cunningham had told her that he had seen Clare in possession of a photograph of me which had convinced him we were intimate friends . |
| 13 | The young man went on staring at him ; the idea that he had seen Dyson on television seemed to be too far-fetched even to penetrate his consciousness . |
| 14 | It 's just that he wanted to see Jenny in front of everyone else . |
| 15 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |