Example sentences of "was [verb] to see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 2 | I for one was heartened to see us just going out there and enjoying ourselves , despite going down by eight goals to one . |
| 3 | When I said she did n't , he rang for his chauffeur and told me he was going to see her and asked if I wanted to go with him . |
| 4 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
| 5 | But now he was going to see her in the flesh . |
| 6 | ‘ That I was going to see you . ’ |
| 7 | But he cancelled his trip to England at the last minute and pretended he thought I was going to see you in your show and might as well hand you the invitation at the same time . ’ |
| 8 | One of his men was waiting to see him , there was a telephone call , a customer was asking for him , and the receptionist was getting agitated . |
| 9 | He was waiting to see you and fully expecting you would be there . |
| 10 | ‘ Angy and I had supper together on the Monday evening but she never said that girl had been here , or that Rick was corning to see her . ’ |
| 11 | During this session the rapport between her and the therapist appeared to have deteriorated , and the therapist thought this was because Pamela was beginning to see her as aligned with her parents . |
| 12 | She said only that someone was coming to see her . |
| 13 | Ianthe remembered that Miss Grimes had been to Spain for her holiday one year , but she supposed that she must have bought the wine specially when Ianthe had said she was coming to see her . |
| 14 | I was coming to see you . |
| 15 | She turned now and looked at her mother , adding , ‘ He … he was coming to see you at Christmas . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was coming to see you , ’ he began , and his voice was low . |
| 17 | She was gratified to see them jump apart , eyes popping . |
| 18 | ‘ But it was upsetting to see her so unhappy . |
| 19 | I was allowed to see her in the visiting room , but if some of the girls knew you were from C1 they 'd call you muppet . |
| 20 | She told me no one was allowed to see him . |
| 21 | ( Press reports of Sept. 27 cited PLO officials as apparently confirming that on the previous day Ashrawi and Husseini had addressed the PNC , while Le Monde reported the " audition " of Ashrawi and Husseini by the PNC , " although nobody outside the members of the congress ' political committee was allowed to see them and therefore provide tangible proof of their presence " . |
| 22 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 23 | A fortnight later , when it was dry and varnished , Alexandra was allowed to see it . |
| 24 | The other time I was taken to see him , which was better . |
| 25 | I was hoping to see her while I was here , that 's why I came … ’ |
| 26 | The reference to the tent meant either that ‘ John Parsons ’ had written it , and was hoping to see me around , or that they had teamed up on a declared truce . |
| 27 | She threw her sister an apprehensive glance but was reassured to see she was smiling . |
| 28 | I was determined to see it and I pulled away from him and went up to the box office to pay my penny , hoping he would follow . |
| 29 | He had been shocked by the resentment he had aroused — especially from a group of poets who themselves had only lately moved into the Vale : but he had dug in and dug on , he was no coward and he would not budge , he was determined to see it built , to live in it in the season and to be happy there with his wife and daughter . |
| 30 | He had written to me every week when he could , and I was longing to see him again . |