Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] see " in BNC.

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1 Thankfully I have seen little of SARAH recently .
2 right I want to see the homework , those that have n't got it etcetera .
3 ‘ For now , I would rather look at you , take in your beauty and your warmth , hear your voice and bask in your smile — see you in reality just as hitherto I have seen you only in my dreams ! ’
4 You see er what I 'm worried about is that erm basically I wanted to see you first before I even answered it before I phoned them up and say yeah okay or wha what have you .
5 M. Perhaps I 've seen her .
6 Perhaps I wanted to see the windows again .
7 I do n't know whether I have or not , yes I think perhaps I have seen it
8 So I came to see Dr Bailey .
9 So I went to see a man in Devonshire Place and he sent me down the road for a barium meal X-ray .
10 And so I went to see Jack Gillam and he said , ‘ What do you do ? ’
11 So I went to see Semenov .
12 So I went to see Mr Rhys .
13 So I went to see him and the neighbour said to me , Well , I said , God it 's cold , I said , Why ai n't he got a fire ?
14 So I went to see the latest one , Mrs Houston she was called .
15 Well I could n't take I could n't do nowt about it at all so I went to see t head of firm and Aye , he says , it 's bad , he says , we do n't know to do things like that .
16 So I had to see Dad every day and have him deplore me .
17 No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ?
18 I said , so I 've seen the job and I says er and I do n't think it 's worth doing for ninety quid .
19 ‘ So Lady Lavinia told me , and so I have seen .
20 They will be able to have a voice in choosing the chairman of the European commission which is like a Euro quango in a way so I do see a parallel which I want to put to you that we are remedying the democratic deficit in Europe with that giant Euro quango in the same way that we would like to remedy the democratic deficit with respect to the proliferation of quangos in Wales .
21 We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together .
22 Now what we 're on about yeah as I were on about , that er what I do is , with days like this , cos you can never guarantee if they 're gon na be dry , wet or what , so I watch to see if it rains , if it do n't they 're virtually dry when I fetch them in .
23 And I said oh I 've got a present for you so I want to see you give it to you .
24 So I wanted to see the girl I had worked with because she must have known what happened to my stuff .
25 So I expect to see er improvements in confidence backed by greater provision and I like to see that directed at the venture capital , risk capital , long term capital .
26 And suddenly she wanted to see him , to tell him she knew .
27 If only she had seen him come into the shop — but she always seemed to miss him .
28 Naturally she wants to see him . ’
29 Basically you do see enhancement in these cases .
30 But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free .
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