Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
2 | I 'd also seen a probation person . |
3 | I 'd never seen a weapon like that before — only military rifles . |
4 | I went to see the semi-finals of the Midland Bank Championships in Brighton — the first time I 'd ever seen a tennis match live . |
5 | I came here to see a Mrs Denner , to design her garden . ’ |
6 | ‘ However , on the day in question I turned round to see a car coming slowly towards me , and I stepped aside . |
7 | I tricked him , but I had to , I remember once seeing a mosaic , a Roman mosaic . |
8 | I turn round to see a trail of spit running down the length of my left shoulder-blade . |
9 | ‘ But if my name has been so discredited , I do not see a remedy . ’ |
10 | Graham believes care managers will have the option of pursuing careers in management or specialist practice roles : ‘ I do n't see a problem with returning to direct client work . |
11 | I , I do n't see a problem . |
12 | They can talk to a player , warn him and if he persists caution him so I do n't see a need for this new law . ’ |
13 | I do n't see a need to have it repeated on a separate bit of paper anywhere else . |
14 | Road , sometimes I do n't see a soul , Jimmy 's about the only one I see |
15 | In fact I 'll give my neighbours who live opposite , I do n't see a lot of them but they they are my opposite neighbours and of course the 's really I 'm on good terms with I ought to give them I 'll get them a tin of biscuits as well . |
16 | I wheeled around to see a 3D abhorrent Zombie attempting to maul me . |
17 | I wheeled around to see a 3D abhorrent Zombie attempting to maul me . |
18 | Yet I did not see a foul . |
19 | I did n't see a Barn Owl here for 20 years or so . |
20 | I did n't see a cheque ! |
21 | ‘ I sent in a report to the committee and I did n't see a flag at any stage , ’ he said . |
22 | I did n't see a car . |
23 | In another letter he wrote : ‘ I did n't see a cock the whole time — except my own and that glimpsed only briefly in a cracked mirror . ’ |
24 | ‘ I did n't see a thing , ’ Gus said bitterly . |
25 | Well I was like that once , I did n't see a thing I wanted to buy . |
26 | Well I did n't see a soul that I kn I mean I used to go and used to see people like |
27 | er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about |
28 | I yes , I mean it did make I did actually see a press release erm |
29 | We were going to see a film and I had n't seen a film before . |
30 | I had already seen a couple of ringed seals , several eider duck , many Arctic terns and kittiwakes and a few scruffy immature glaucous gulls before I crept into my bunk to sleep . |