Example sentences of "[adv] see you [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 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 | ‘ Probably sees you as a bit of a traitor . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't quite see you as a stonemason . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We no see you for an age . |
| 6 | I 've never seen you in a suit before Barry . |