Example sentences of "[verb] see [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |
| 2 | And Jimmy [ Jewel ] came to see him the other day and we walked across the road to the pub . |
| 3 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 4 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 5 | " David Fairfax came to see you the other day , " Matthew went on . |
| 6 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 7 | But they 'd seen him the moment he saw them , so he kept on walking towards them . |
| 8 | She would have seen me the week before ; and this time , have heard my arrival and tried to catch a glimpse of me — that explained the old man 's quick looks past me , and perhaps some of his nervous strangeness . |
| 9 | Alright , she 'll be expecting she reckons she 's due on the twenty third of March , but the hospital say it 's , it 's the twenty ninth , so it 'll be next week , I 'll have to give a ring , we went to see her the other week , to see how she was , erm we went round er one night , I rung her up to see if she 'd be in , I said right we 'll be round for an hour |
| 10 | Went to see them the other week |
| 11 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |
| 12 | He strode to her , eyes blazing , and shouted , ‘ Why did you specifically come to see me the minute you found out I had my own investment bank ? ’ |
| 13 | Most Kingsmarkham faces were familiar to Wexford and Burden remembered seeing him the night before arm-in-arm with the dead man , singing and disturbing decent citizens . |
| 14 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 15 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 16 | The last time he had seen him the Trollslayer had been wandering off to booze with his fellow outcast Dwarfs . |
| 17 | ‘ If she had seen you the night of the Giants she might have thought differently , ’ Ratagan said gently . |