Example sentences of "[verb] see [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 2 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 3 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 4 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 5 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 7 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 8 | ‘ What the hell do you want to see him for ? ’ asked Brown . |
| 9 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 10 | and I 'm certainly wearing paint tonight , quite a bit of it because its very hot under here and you would n't want to see me without it , but that 's me saying that , I mean why do I ? , why do I ? , why are we all wearing make-up ? , do we actually think we look better ? , are we trying to disguise something ? , yes |
| 11 | ‘ Did you want to see me about something ? ’ said Wilcox impatiently . |
| 12 | D' you want to see me in prison ? ’ |
| 13 | She could not imagine who might want to see her at this time on a Saturday morning . |
| 14 | They 'll want to see her for sure . ’ |
| 15 | But after he had left them Rain wondered whether Shildon might not want to see her about his MacQuillan inquiry , a matter other events had put out of her mind . |
| 16 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
| 17 | Local councillor Eddie McEvilly said : ‘ I do n't really want to talk about conditions on the operation , because I do n't want to see it at all . ’ |
| 18 | It was so useful to have been on the road myself and to have experienced cold-calling , setting up new accounts , or merchandising accounts that did n't want to see you at that particular moment . |
| 19 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 20 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 21 | Monism , with its rejection of the form-meaning dichotomy , was a tenet of the New Critics , who rejected the idea that a poem conveys a message , preferring to see it as an autonomous verbal artefact . |
| 22 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 23 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 24 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 25 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 26 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 27 | We tend to see it from perhaps sort of Heathrow that you want to go in , into London because that 's where , where the links are , by roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Piccadilly line . |
| 28 | Eyam is a small , intimate house , so do n't all rush to see it at once , for the guides can accommodate only limited numbers on their tours . |
| 29 | I was able to go to see her in hospital . |
| 30 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |