Example sentences of "[vb past] see this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came to see this play last week . |
| 2 | So in 1818 when a doctor called Herbert was told of a young man living on the island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands off the north of Scotland who had been deaf and blind from birth , he hastened to see this object of curiosity for himself . |
| 3 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 4 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |
| 5 | And this astonished him , because he 'd seen this kind of thing at home . |
| 6 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 7 | When the hundred came up it weas from a very different Hick and Worcestershhire to what we 'd seen this morning . |
| 8 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 9 | ‘ I never thought to see this day , ’ he murmured , as he rose to his feet and gently pulled her up to him . |
| 10 | I kept seeing this leer of his , the leer of a wary yokel , reflected in the numerous little mirrors set around Herta 's marriage crown ( traditional : to ward off evil spirits , and so on ) . |
| 11 | I went to see this bloke play at Ronnie Scott 's last night . |
| 12 | We went to see this bloke called Tom he was n't there , he was erm |
| 13 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 14 | This guy I know really well suffered from it and went to see this faith healer and made a complete recovery . |
| 15 | So tell me , you went to see this girl ? |
| 16 | So , anyway , erm he went to see this lad , then he says oh I 've only just rang up about these speakers , they 're eleven pound odd each . |
| 17 | ( Laughing ) I went to see this lot live once and like , it was all really moody and I honestly thought the singer was about to launch into some sort of mime routine , I mean , he 's such a f—ing pansy . |
| 18 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 19 | Here the paraphrase would be " how he longed to see this sunlight once before he died ! " , but the fact remains that the person designated by he in this example is felt as not yet having attained the realization of " seeing the sunlight once more " , i.e. as being before this event in time . |
| 20 | You had to see this game to believe it . |
| 21 | She knew she had seen this man not just in the fog , but in the Rockingham public house . |
| 22 | As soon as I had seen this reading of the phrase it at once seemed more plausible . |
| 23 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
| 24 | Once a man had seen this type of dusky-skinned beauty , she imagined nothing else would do . |
| 25 | Before the vote , councillors had seen this video by the League Against Cruel Sports . |
| 26 | David Tindle had recently returned from a visit to Paris where he had seen this painting for the first time . |
| 27 | He had seen this breed before . |
| 28 | She had seen this expression , this lack of expression , this closing in and down , on the face of the demon baby Ruth had once been . |
| 29 | Phyllisia had seen this girl called Marian , she wanted to be her friend because she was perfect and her father would have been impressed , but when she approached her , Marian snubbed Phyllisia . |
| 30 | ‘ Probably an interositor , ’ said Tuppe , who had seen This Island Earth three times . |