Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But he has n't been anywhere near our place , or tried to see Anna . ’ |
| 2 | Customers were asked to fill in a brief form stating whether they knew or had seen Mr McEvoy . |
| 3 | A public that had seen income tax rise fivefold in five years were only too ready to believe that their money was being wasted . |
| 4 | When he joined Littlewoods in 1983 the company was just emerging from a disastrous turn in fortunes that had seen profits plummet from £49 million in 1978 to £11.5 million two years later . |
| 5 | Whatever Beccaria 's personal position , his vision of a social contract set up by people who can at least imagine themselves as the recipients of its punishments is in marked contrast to the later , positivist position that tended to see criminals as different kinds of people altogether . |
| 6 | On this particular tour they were based in Chicago for seven weeks and expected to see gangsters shooting on the sidewalks every minute . |
| 7 | After work that day , 13 September , I went to the hospital and asked to see Suor Eusebia , the Mother Superior , a truly saintly woman . |
| 8 | She settled the squirrel evening cape that had belonged to her mother on top of her light summer coat , then walked in and asked to see Mrs O'Dare . |
| 9 | He thought a little wistfully of Provence , tried and failed to see Edith as happy in the Hôtel Paradis , and returned to savour anew the pleasures of Ramsgate . |
| 10 | Slipping back to rescue the camera case , Jack was charmed and moved to see Hans quietly remove all the addresses from his anorak pocket and throw them casually on the fire at the same time as he ordered a English beer . |
| 11 | Perhaps out of guilt , Harriet discontinued her writing and stopped seeing Mill , with whom she had dined alone twice a week , in order to nurse her husband . |
| 12 | In order to bypass this traditional way of seeing society , Marx turned away from administrative and political organization and tried to see society in different , more fundamental terms . |
| 13 | Rourke bared his teeth , and in the tense moments that followed as they squared up to each other they heard the unmistakable sound of a cough , and turned to see Adam make an appearance in the doorway . |
| 14 | Presently , he heard the foliage rustling behind him , and turned to see Walterkin coming over the edge of the roof . |
| 15 | He stopped in mid-flow and turned to see Nigel Steen standing in the doorway . |
| 16 | She heard a footstep behind her and turned to see Matthew . |
| 17 | She closed the door and turned to see Craig leaning against the fireplace , his eyes shining through the coal dust . |
| 18 | He was almost there when he heard the sound of running feet behind him , and turned to see Merymose coming towards him . |
| 19 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 20 | When Morse , himself looking far from serene , had come into The Randolph and demanded to see Messrs Aldrich and Brown immediately , he had resolutely avoided her eyes , appearing to have no wish to rekindle the brief moments of intimacy which had occurred in the morning 's early hours . |
| 21 | She walked into the theatre , and demanded to see Mr Stone . |
| 22 | He skipped along the corridors and went to see Matron to tell her the good news . |
| 23 | We left the station and went to see Mrs Laura Lyons . |
| 24 | Finally she came to a decision and went to see Mrs Constantine . |
| 25 | LUCAN left and went to see friends in Sussex , but he took a strange route . |
| 26 | I arrived at the Ministry of Culture and went to see Khalturin . |
| 27 | I was at Low Newton a couple of weeks and then I got out on bail and went to see Stephen , but then I got lifted again , back to Low Newton . |
| 28 | Captain Frederick Roy-Smith was serving in Germany in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps and had seen Rottweilers who had impressed him greatly , especially with their working ability . |
| 29 | Now , if they seen a miracle , if they had been there before and had seen Jesus do something like this , then it would appear that they would have ev , that Jesus would have every reason for saying , oh you faithless people ! |
| 30 | She had been on a bus once and had seen Simon in a posh car pulling out of an ‘ executive ’ housing estate opposite the boating lake . |