Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [adv] see [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I also saw the blood and noise of war . |
| 2 | I have n't I have n't actually seen one , but I once saw a lady on the bus with one |
| 3 | Correct me if I 'm wrong , but I never saw the likes of ‘ Doyler ’ sneaking off the pitch for a quickie , unlike , say , Jimbo Morrison or the boys in Led Zep who considered such interludes to be an amusing challenge to their versatility as artistes . |
| 4 | But you never saw the king of beasts clap his forepaws nor balance a ball on his nose ! |
| 5 | But you seldom see a woman driver mixed up in it . |
| 6 | But she only saw the girl who had now returned her full attention to the case . |
| 7 | Lorne tried chanting a few limericks over and over , but we never saw the eels again , though we dived there often . |
| 8 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 9 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 10 | But he also sees the need for guarantees on employment conditions there . |
| 11 | ‘ There was nice stuff written during that era but it never saw the light of day . |