Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he 'd been to see Ben who was living on the Jonquil . |
| 2 | But , after we 'd been to see Mrs Diamond , she was like you … . |
| 3 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |
| 4 | They had been to see La Boheme , at which Mr O'Hara had cried quite openly , and which Ellie had sat through dry-eyed , but with a breaking heart . |
| 5 | Ludens was glad he had been to see Franca and felt sure , as he sat in another taxi bound for Victoria , that she had understood why , and in what frame of mind , he had come . |
| 6 | And if the England boss had been to see QPR in recent weeks , he would have been impressed , especially with Sinton . |
| 7 | The foresters gave evidence that two townsmen of Colchester had been seen hunting in the forest , but had evaded attachment . |
| 8 | In August 1981 every piece of the city 's urban common carried a population of wall butterflies ( Lasiommosta megera ) , the first time this species had been seen north of the Tyne this century . |
| 9 | Maura had been seeing Terry for nearly five months , and miraculously had managed to keep him a secret . |
| 10 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 11 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
| 12 | Joanne Morse , 18 , had been seeing Osborne weeks before the killing . |
| 13 | Mr Hartley , in his final year studying community arts at Newcastle , had been seeing Miss Harrison for about a year . |
| 14 | He had been seeing Molly on and off for about six months . |