Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you were gon na go and tell him that he 'd better see me today . |
| 2 | He did not see any of the prisoners but was led to believe they were still inside . |
| 3 | As David ate popcorn , he did not see Snow White , and we know that Donna watched Mary Poppins , so Helen and David must have seen Fantasia . |
| 4 | He did not see how we could possibly do so under modern conditions . ' |
| 5 | He said that he did not see the point of a central control over pay beds which was a relic of the Labour governments of the 1960s . |
| 6 | During 1986 , Mr Scott did once enter the kitchen , and when he did not see his wife assumed she was visiting relatives . |
| 7 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 8 | He missed her physical presence too , and dreamed of her oftener now he did not see her . |
| 9 | He did not see why anyone , even a wealthy mill-owner , would want to drive a horse and carriage backwards down such a steeply sloping yard when he could just as easily leave it standing in the driveway . |
| 10 | The CIA man at the airport said he did not see any winking going on ; but the NHAO humanitarian flights , of which Duemling was in charge , routinely allowed ‘ 10 percent lethal ’ . |
| 11 | Flook claimed he did not see the family as they crossed a dual carriageway in Patchway , Bristol , as he was chased ‘ bumper to bumper ’ by two men in the other car . |
| 12 | He did not see why Burney need concern himself with dissecting the kidneys . |
| 13 | Then , when he thought seriously about the reaction , it left him puzzled , because he did not see it as being especially controversial . |
| 14 | He did not see the failure as a consequence of the refusal to unite all opponents of Unionism , but of the NILP 's willingness to compromise in order to achieve such unity : |
| 15 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 16 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 17 | There was , Henry had noticed , a specially reverent way of saying ‘ thank you ’ when accepting a cheese and tomato sandwich at a funeral reception and he did not see why people should develop critical faculties just because they were swigging back a wine glass containing a fair quantity of the domestic bleach known as Finish 'Em . |
| 18 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
| 19 | He did not see the soldier until he was almost on top of him . |
| 20 | Thiercelin and Epitot saluted smartly as he passed , but he did not see them , nor even his entourage . |
| 21 | He did not see the young lady but found a small sculptured image of Our Lady . |
| 22 | Though he did not see it , the car swung in a U-turn , the gunman ran forward and climbed in the back seat . |
| 23 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 24 | He did not see any sign of the runaway animals but later on that night the local policeman called on him and he took over the task of keeping a look out . |
| 25 | Musician Lake was bailed at Marylebone , London , on condition he did not see the boy . |
| 26 | He did not see the guard revise his aim , away from the gathered crowd . |
| 27 | My move woke him , and he did not see me . |
| 28 | He did not see size of firm as a particularly important factor in his choice . |
| 29 | He could see Prussian soldiers running away in the undergrowth and he felt the fierce exultation of a cavalryman given a helpless enemy to slaughter , but he did not see the batter of guns concealed in the deep shadows at the edge of the wood , nor the Prussian artillery officer who shouted , ‘ Fire ! ’ |
| 30 | Feeling overloaded with routine and emergency clinical work ( there are no deputising services in Bassetlaw ) and with administration , he did not see how he and his colleagues could commit any extra time to assessment . |