Example sentences of "[verb] not see much " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has not seen much of Montparnasse recently , she confesses to her readers , she has been staying indoors ‘ nursing a sick wasp and writing a comic romance . |
| 2 | Jo Baker 's guest house in Ross on Wye has n't seen much trade recently . |
| 3 | The only woman I had anything to do with regularly was my mother , aid except at meals aid bed time I did not see much even of my mother . |
| 4 | They came with a boat , and did all their shopping in Tobermory , so we did not see much of them at all . ’ |
| 5 | Although he was satisfied with his progress , he did not see much possibility for immediate promotion . |
| 6 | She did not see much of Florence as they roared through it in the jeep , just a muddled impression of large buildings and a broad dark green river , but as they began to drive up the steep , swooping hill to Fiesole , David 's friend said : |
| 7 | Theda did not see much of the gentleman , for he ate with Araminta in the breakfast parlour , while Theda always had her meals in Mrs Diggory 's little pantry . |
| 8 | I do not see much to encourage me at all , but this does not worry me for it could be much later when they arrive , after I have left for home . |
| 9 | Of the tax paid by Osaka 's residents and businesses , 84% goes to central government ; they do not see much of it again . |
| 10 | Sensuality had disappeared in the Fifties ; except maybe for Elvis , you did n't see much of it . |
| 11 | He did n't see much more of Tina and the teachers treated him with gentle sympathy , almost as if he were an invalid . |
| 12 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 13 | They were mostly LTIs [ long-term inmates ] so I did n't see much of them . |
| 14 | I did n't see much of Will 's wife . |
| 15 | Connie held that it was a simple matter to forgive your enemies because , if you had the sense you were born with , you did n't see much of them , whereas with the way society was constituted , you spent most of your time with your nearest and dearest , and the things they could do to annoy you made the whole concept of forgiveness extremely difficult to entertain . |
| 16 | I did n't see much of her recently anyway . |
| 17 | Everyone was in a hurry as they squeezed by ; no-one seemed to notice her , and she did n't see much chance of getting their attention right now . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't see much evidence of it when you were dealing with me ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ No , only that she did n't see much of you … ’ |
| 20 | It was well I did n't see much sense in that either but er I mean if they were eating on the j er eating on the job did n't give you a break at all . |
| 21 | ‘ We did n't see much of them , ’ Woodruffe went on . |
| 22 | I was way down the other end , so I did n't see much of it . |
| 23 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 24 | ‘ You said you did n't see much of your family until recently . |
| 25 | I was gon na say as I recollect I did n't see much wrong with it that I would disagree with erm I think it 's nice to see , you know , sort of progress seems to be going on and erm er what I would say is sort of it might be a good idea to sort of line the numbers up a bit more but erm |
| 26 | Tha , well you did n't see much of it did you ? |
| 27 | Well I did n't see much point |
| 28 | ‘ He 's OK , ’ I replied , ‘ Do n't see much of him . |
| 29 | I do n't see much of them unless they want something and they do n't see much of me . |
| 30 | I do n't see much of them unless they want something and they do n't see much of me . |