Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to see him , but they said no . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 3 | My inclination was to decline , but as that would have been discourteous in the extreme to Wilson , for whom I then had enormous respect , I agreed to see him . |
| 4 | No I ge , I got to see it |
| 5 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 6 | From my hiding place , I strained to see her more clearly . |
| 7 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 8 | Then I stopped seeing her . |
| 9 | And then , because I stopped looking out for her , I stopped seeing her altogether . |
| 10 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 11 | They dropped their voices to a whisper when they saw me but I 'd seen them taking nips from a bottle of gin . |
| 12 | And she did n't really tell me , it was just that I guessed , I 'd seen them quite a few times , mooning about , and I asked her if she was going to marry him . |
| 13 | Once I 'd seen them , I realized I had to get to her before they did . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 15 | Told you I 'd seen them . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd seen him like that so many times before , but at least after a couple of days he 'd say , ‘ Vicky , I got to clean up . ’ |
| 17 | I thought I 'd seen him before somewhere . |
| 18 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 19 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 20 | I 'd seen him earlier that night , here at the house , behaving in a way that made me very anxious to find out what he was doing here on Moila . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd seen him around a few times . |
| 22 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 23 | I was quite impressed by this and since he was going back to England that evening I decided to go back as soon as I 'd seen him off . |
| 24 | I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun . |
| 25 | I told you I 'd seen him . |
| 26 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 27 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 28 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 29 | Father , when he used to , I 'd seen him years ago when he was a young man , he 'd do a sheep in five minutes . |
| 30 | Yeah I swore I 'd seen him before . |