Example sentences of "[vb past] see [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After work that day , 13 September , I went to the hospital and asked to see Suor Eusebia , the Mother Superior , a truly saintly woman . |
| 2 | She settled the squirrel evening cape that had belonged to her mother on top of her light summer coat , then walked in and asked to see Mrs O'Dare . |
| 3 | Herbert Cranko asked to see Dulcie Howes and discussed John 's training with her . |
| 4 | In the morning , she agreed to see Winifred Shalcross . |
| 5 | I expected to see Dr Mortimer , as I knew nobody else in the village . |
| 6 | It was the day before we expected to see Treasure Island . |
| 7 | First we got to see Joey B. Where is he ? ’ |
| 8 | He lived to see South Africa bend instead . |
| 9 | Anyway … off Boy Bradshaw beetled to see Colonel Bumface … . ’ |
| 10 | So I came to see Dr Bailey . |
| 11 | Strange visitors from government departments came to see Dr Rolleston . |
| 12 | " I came to see Dr Graham two months ago . |
| 13 | ‘ People came to see Kenneth Williams and thought they would be watching a ‘ Carry On ’ . ’ |
| 14 | Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s . |
| 15 | On May 21st Mr Yavlinsky and Mr Allison came to see Mr Zoellick , who was once a student of Mr Allison 's . |
| 16 | ‘ And remember , ’ she quipped , ‘ Dames Martha and Elizabeth recalled seeing Lady Eleanor walking in the grounds below their window just before Compline . ’ |
| 17 | But I 'd seen Dick Cleave and Les Petherbridge , good men both of them , choosing to hang on at the Gazette for ever . |
| 18 | Barbara said you 'd seen Peter Redburn . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd seen Dean Street , and liked what he saw . |
| 20 | Daryl remembered something your mother had told her in a letter a week or two before , she said that she 'd met Sally Hopes mother and had liked her and she said to that she 'd seen Mrs Hopes baby . |
| 21 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 22 | Nobody would believe her when she told them she 'd seen Mrs Sugar . |
| 23 | " Nobody would believe her when she told them she 'd seen Mrs Sugar , " How do you think the conversation went ? |
| 24 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 25 | How I wish I 'd seen Shirley Cowling 's article ( Nov '91 ) on ‘ Choosing the first machine ’ eight years ago ! |
| 26 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 27 | Without waiting , I asked her , ‘ You told me once that you 'd seen Sister Kenny treat a polio patient . ’ |
| 28 | They 'd seen Miss Lavant on the promenade and about the town , always walking slowly , sometimes with a neat wicker basket . |
| 29 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 30 | ‘ Seems reasonable , ’ said Dod , like he 'd seen Richard Widmark say it in a film once , really chill . |