Example sentences of "[vb past] see [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody asked to see their passports and they were airborne half an hour later , on their way to Keflavik on the western side of Iceland , where they landed seven hours later . |
| 2 | He then asked to see my legs . |
| 3 | I asked to see his identification . |
| 4 | ‘ Asked to see his driving licence . ’ |
| 5 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
| 6 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 7 | The woman looked around the yard as if she expected to see her daughter emerge from one of the doors or from behind a pile of rubbish . |
| 8 | She fully expected to see her suitcases standing somewhere . |
| 9 | I must say I expected to see my sister accuse Orlick of attacking her , but instead she seemed very pleased to see him . |
| 10 | At 7.25 p.m. he finally got to see his solicitor . |
| 11 | Now , I 'd let someone else do it , whilst I checked to see what window I could jump out of ! ) |
| 12 | The plan was to build a building and to endow it , and though we are very sad that Dr McDonald died before he lived to see his schemes carried through , he approved all the building designs , and made very full provision in his will , as he had promised . |
| 13 | My heart sank to see their faces . |
| 14 | Inspired , Yeremi sprayed a stream of incandescent rainbow plasma gobbets at a defence laser which was tracking in that forbidden direction , and rejoiced to see its shield fail and the shark-snouted gun warp and drip like a lugubrious runny nose . |
| 15 | This magazine as a whole attempts to provide some of that missing sense of movement by tracking down individual people that the NI once profiled to see what time has done to them . |
| 16 | He seemed to see himself , small and alone , in the centre of a circular chamber that expanded when he tried to see its perimeter . |
| 17 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 18 | Though Chrysler turned them down , the size of the bids intrigued Chrysler 's management : ’ We tried to see what outsiders saw in getting more from Acustar , ’ says Mr Gerald Greenwald , Chrysler 's vice-chairman . |
| 19 | One other Fulmar pilot , Sub Lt. R.F. Walker flying No. 2 to Gardner , reported seeing his fire hit a Bf110 , following which he attacked a Ju87 which disappeared into cloud pouring smoke . |
| 20 | In the 1980s , management came to see its information system as part of a variety of decision support systems . |
| 21 | He came to see yer mother and talk to her about paying a reward . |
| 22 | Alongside Ernest Bevin 's conduct of the Ministry of Labour , they were at the forefront of the process by which workers came to see their interests as identified with the extension of state power in economic life . |
| 23 | She , a beautician , came to see her friend |
| 24 | He came to see her father and advised that she be sent to relatives in Cork and kept there till the danger to her immortal soul was past . |
| 25 | ‘ We came to see your eyelashes , Deirdre , ’ Antony said in a soft , taunting voice . |
| 26 | We came to see your play last night and we were absolutely disgusted . |
| 27 | I wanted to help ; that 's why I came to see your sister . |
| 28 | ‘ I came to see your mother , sir . ’ |
| 29 | Later Joe came to see his mother and they were able to tell him that his and Sarah 's secret was known to them . |
| 30 | ‘ Yesterday , Mr Laing , you came to see my colleague here , having quit Saudi Arabia by whatever means you were able , and made serious allegations concerning the integrity of Mr Steve Pyle . ’ |