Example sentences of "[adv] see [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , just before his interview with Meese , he had dropped in to see McFarlane in his office precisely , McFarlane thought , to agonize over the fact that the diversion was a matter of record : ‘ I put it in a memo to the Admiral . ’ |
| 2 | She was to call him Tom from now on , he had said … she had walked him to his car after he had dropped in to see Faye over lunch . |
| 3 | ‘ I would love to have seen 400,000 kids coming along to see Kylie on this tour , but it just is not possible , ’ said Waterman . |
| 4 | I went down to see Will at ten o'clock after |
| 5 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 6 | He apparently sees Novell as the Grinch who will steal open systems . |
| 7 | William had to fight a much more serious war in Ireland , where the Catholic majority naturally saw James as their best hope for power ; the successful defence of Londonderry and the victory at the Boyne in 1690 became immovable parts of the Protestant tradition ; the Treaty of Limerick and the Protestant failure to honour the treaty 's promises of religious toleration became unforgettable parts of the Catholic view of the history of Ireland . |
| 8 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 9 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 10 | So Anne stayed at home , and only saw Diana in the evenings . |
| 11 | Leith asked promptly , sometimes not seeing Rosemary for days , but missing her now she was n't around . |
| 12 | He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while . |
| 13 | Keeper Neville Southall , the most capped keeper in Welsh history , believes the Belgians will be scared just seeing Giggs among the substitutes . |
| 14 | we might we might be going over to see Mary on Sunday |
| 15 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 16 | Had not seen Anna since then , but he said , ‘ Why does n't Nahum do something about making things easier for Anna ? ’ |
| 17 | I had not seen Hugo for three hours . |
| 18 | It occurred to him as he walked that he had not seen Taheb since their visit to the palace compound . |
| 19 | He saw Anna occasionally but he had not seen Freda for years though he had to admit that he might not have recognised her had he passed her in the street . |
| 20 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 21 | He had not seen Karr in more than three years . |
| 22 | She seemed so sanguine that he started to enjoy his leave and they all three went off to see Mona in Jermyn Street , who greeted them with her usual generous hospitality , very little of which was at her or their expense , but who had not seen Charles since his transformation from 2nd Lieutenant to Guardsman . |
| 23 | I had not seen Leeds at the time ’ ? |
| 24 | She had not seen Angela since the weekend before the one on which she had disappeared , but had spoken to her twice on the telephone . |
| 25 | Having just seen Topper at the Princess the week before , I had all I needed to complete my erotic evaporation fantasies . |
| 26 | He then went into the Army and did not see Minton for some time . |
| 27 | It was agreed that they would not see Minton for a while . |
| 28 | Dexter did not see Blanche for another few hours . |
| 29 | Her friends on the bridge saw the boat , but they did not see Anne under the tree . |
| 30 | Clearly the scene was beautiful , even though I do not see London as my city . |