Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 2 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 3 | But I did n't want to be seen talking to her in the office , so I should have to wait until she got home . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've made sure that I am seen talking to you at the time of this man 's arrest in a public place . |
| 5 | The young hedgehogs are reared by their mothers , and at about four weeks of age they may be seen foraging with her in the darkness . |
| 6 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 7 | As the years have passed , he 's started waiting for us at the door on visitors ' days . |