Example sentences of "[vb past] see [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did think about it and asked to see him again , and once again he visited me with Patrick Nairne . |
| 2 | Before I left Ruritania , Princess Flavia asked to see me again , and Fritz took me to her . |
| 3 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 4 | From my hiding place , I strained to see her more clearly . |
| 5 | And then , because I stopped looking out for her , I stopped seeing her altogether . |
| 6 | She tried to see him objectively , but the results were equally disturbing ! |
| 7 | She tried to see him dispassionately as a grey-haired solicitor rather too well endowed with easy charm ; indeed , she saw him thus , but she also saw him otherwise , and could not help herself . |
| 8 | Unlike the mothers of some of the other children , her mother came to see them quite a lot , and she remembers it not being so bad — " once you get used to it , it 's just like your home " . |
| 9 | But her greatest thrill of all came on the very day they were going home , for the Brownie Guider from Stowbridge came to see them off and she brought the exciting news that a second Pack was being formed at Stowbridge and that the way was now wide open for Brenda to become a Brownie . |
| 10 | She came to see him once , was shy and vague and noncommittal , later wrote to say it was best for them not to see each other again . |
| 11 | I know this because after my machine arrived , the salesman whose job it would have been to persuade me to buy it , had I not been too quick for him , came to see me anyway . |
| 12 | The last time that the transport did n't come , my friends came to see me instead . |
| 13 | Did I tell you Madeleine came to see me again shortly after you left ? |
| 14 | Maxine came to see me again the following week and we began the follow-up treatment , along the lines of those which you will find detailed in the ‘ case histories ’ sections of this book . |
| 15 | I heard nothing more until a year later when Carol came to see me again . |
| 16 | ‘ The Professor came to see me yesterday evening , and told me all of it . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know if you 've heard , ’ he went on , ‘ but James came to see me yesterday . ’ |
| 18 | When your mother , good woman that she is , came to see me yesterday I was not shocked to hear what she had to say . |
| 19 | When Ivy went to see her she said oh Mrs Mr came to see me yesterday afternoon he brought another gentleman with him , a nice gentleman so I she said I think they were taking the census , they got me to sign a paper . |
| 20 | I was in the bank , so he came to see me there and introduced himself . |
| 21 | After a while I said , ‘ Doone came to see me twice . |
| 22 | A neighbour came to see me twice . |
| 23 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
| 24 | Peter first came to see me halfway through the golfing season . |
| 25 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 26 | ‘ Ranulf the rat-catcher came to see me earlier today . |
| 27 | ‘ And Shergold came to see her regularly ? ’ |
| 28 | During the months they were waiting for the divorce he came to see her nearly every day . |
| 29 | That was what the man came to see her about . |
| 30 | It was not very long before I came to see it as simply one fad among others . |