Example sentences of "i [verb] see a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 2 | No I think , I , I mean see a lot of languages and I think you 're doing very well . |
| 3 | ‘ Now look , Connie me pet , it 's bleedin' cold in the parlour , ’ complained Archie , ‘ and , anyway , I got to see a bloke about a job . ’ |
| 4 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 5 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I pretended to see a pin on the floor . |
| 7 | I 'd seen a couple of caesarian sections , but I 'd never done one or been shown how . |
| 8 | Says Lt Watts , a Northern Ireland veteran : ‘ Before Bosnia I 'd seen a couple of bodies in road accidents but that was just it . |
| 9 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 10 | I 'd seen a lot of that splashy material . |
| 11 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 12 | I 'd seen a photograph of one of those ; they cut your throat and pull your tongue out through the slit . |
| 13 | I began to see a pattern to these puzzling events , a distinct and disturbing trend . |
| 14 | Ideally I like to see a ratio of 85 per cent positive , |
| 15 | I wake to see a scrap of sunlight pushing at the curtains . |
| 16 | I remember seeing a delegation from the tenants at that time . |
| 17 | ‘ I went to see a film at Penzance . ’ |
| 18 | I went to see a friend in Regent 's Park that evening but she was n't there , so I climbed the railings into the park , crossed the grass , and settled under an oak tree … |
| 19 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 20 | So I went to see a man in Devonshire Place and he sent me down the road for a barium meal X-ray . |
| 21 | Well , with my interest intensifying , I went to see a number of other black sportsmen who had achieved a measure of success to compare their perceptions and experiences . |
| 22 | It 's something that everybody should be aware of all the time , and I do see a lot of guitarists who really let themselves down by just falling back and letting the obvious happen . |
| 23 | When I had first arrived I had seen a couple of press people milling around , but now there seemed to be a whole platoon of them , cameras at the ready . |
| 24 | I had noticed the name on the map ; it seemed very remote but I had seen a reference to an inn there . |
| 25 | ‘ Earlier , I had seen a picture of Farrah in the paper . |
| 26 | I was very upset , even though I had seen a lot of birds die before ; I had really thought this one was going to make it . |
| 27 | He was among the founders of the Association of Cricket Statisticians in 1973 , playing a prominent role in their series of publications on the players of each first-class county and producing the A to Z of Cricket Records in 1976 : ‘ I had seen a book on the football records and persuaded the publisher to try a similar volume on cricket records — not only listing them by explaining them . |
| 28 | The TV is on , the sound is low , it 's some not-half-cheeky detective rubbish starring George Segal that I 've seen a couple of times before , just the way I like it . |
| 29 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 30 | ‘ I 've seen a cross-reference with British Army chaplains in the military documentation file , ’ Ilse said . |