Example sentences of "he [vb past] see [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd seen her like this before , when she had her nose in those poetry books , and once when he 'd sneaked up the stairs and caught her using the telephone . |
| 2 | He 'd seen 'em like that afore and a good gallop put 'em right . |
| 3 | He liked seeing her like that , even although he was cowering under his coat collar trying to keep dry , still surprised at how easily it had gone at home . |
| 4 | Over the past few years , since she had broken off her engagement to Jean-Paul , he had seen her on various occasions — at balls in London , or at country-house weekends once at Christian Glendinning 's parents ' house , but they had spoken only briefly . |
| 5 | Noel Cooper was lifted aboard : he had seen nothing of Norman Teacher since the Lt-Cmdr swam off towards the shore . |
| 6 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 7 | What I still could n't understand was why he wanted to see me at all . |
| 8 | ‘ He wanted to see us at four-thirty . ’ |