Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] see [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connections : I 'd seen Nevil at Sedgeley House ; I 'd seen Jo at the Mimosa Club where Nevil was supposed to work , or at least beat up barmen . |
| 2 | Yeah I thought I 'd seen cloud on top on the hills . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I went to see Sleepless in Seattle last night . |
| 5 | I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation . |
| 8 | " You came to see Doris about bed-bugs . " |
| 9 | It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him that she thought she 'd seen Amy on Friday night . |
| 10 | It was time to move on to the offensive : ‘ What I 'd like to know is how you managed to see Newley in Primrose Hill at six o'clock . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You went to see Angy on Monday afternoon and told Rick that evening about the invitation for Tuesday , right ? ’ |
| 12 | She had seen pictures in books and on television of gaudily painted narrow boats and had warmed to the romantic life they portrayed . |
| 13 | The princess decided she wanted to see Paris by night … from the well-known spots where lovers sit for hours on end . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He 'd seen patients in calipers but did n't know how to do it himself . |
| 18 | He learnt to see people as individuals with a need of God . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In 1977 yet another alibi witness surfaced , one Richard Hurn , who knew nothing of the case or of McMahon 's imprisonment but told a friend that he remembered seeing McMahon in London on the afternoon of the murder , a date which for other reasons he had cause to remember . |
| 21 | Soon after his first brush with ravens he had seen buzzards like Woil in the distance . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was ironical that ten days before he had seen Shiva at Heathrow . |
| 24 | The week before last , when it had been colder , he had seen parties of hikers , a fisherman coming from the Hilder , cyclists on the Loomlade road , campers with tent and calor gas stove and blankets on their backs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It 's just that he wanted to see Jenny in front of everyone else . |
| 28 | 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 . |