Example sentences of "see [indef pn] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might see someone walking in the street , in an outfit I like , and think , she looks good . |
| 2 | I do n't know about you , but if I had to sort of pass something on to somebody else to check , if I can see somebody scribbling on it , I , I , I , I feel quite edgy , I hate it , I like to feel that I can do it and I can do it well and that other people do n't need to have to amend it . |
| 3 | Massless electron neutrinos spin only one way : if you could see one coming towards you , it would always appear to be spinning clockwise . |
| 4 | No I did n't see anybody looking like that so I do n't know . |
| 5 | I stare into the TV picture to see if I can see anyone moving in my flat . |
| 6 | Did you see anyone talking to Sir Thomas at all , who might have upset him ? ’ |
| 7 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 8 | it was still in the sixties , they call it the swinging sixties , I mean I did n't see anything swinging in the sixties at all , I did n't think it was swinging , but er and they do n't like now the swinging sixties and I think really it was then that er people did er branch out to new ideas . |
| 9 | As long as your revolutionary chums do their bit , I ca n't see anything standing in our way . ’ |
| 10 | Ca n't see anything coming over the horizon cos it 's almost on top of you . |