Example sentences of "[vb past] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 2 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 3 | They asked to see a doctor and Zahira was taken to another part of the building where , she says , she was superficially examined by a doctor and a nurse . |
| 4 | Leeds Crown Court was hearing a statement about the reaction of a porter who found her body when Robin Pask asked to see a doctor . |
| 5 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 6 | Dr Fleming said the reason was that Germans had a quite different medical tradition and expected to see a specialist . |
| 7 | ‘ I expected to see a beach ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 8 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
| 9 | America , Canada , Britain and Sweden are all now expected to see a fall in economic output this year ; America 's GNP is forecast to shrink by 0.4% . |
| 10 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 11 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 12 | When Psyche lighted the lamp , she expected to see a beast , but she saw a god . |
| 13 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |
| 14 | We got to see a man . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Now look , Connie me pet , it 's bleedin' cold in the parlour , ’ complained Archie , ‘ and , anyway , I got to see a bloke about a job . ’ |
| 16 | There 's no decent men in it and there 's no nudity of men it , even when he 's in it all you got to see of him was waist-high , you got to see a clips of his bum . |
| 17 | ‘ If you promise not to tell anyone , ’ Margaret said , when she finally got to see a doctor , ‘ I nearly had it done the old way , you know , with a knitting needle , then I lost my nerve . ’ |
| 18 | In doing so , he failed to see a pothole in the driveway , fell off and was injured . |
| 19 | So intent was she on making a good impression , she failed to see a crane coming towards her . |
| 20 | Next morning the sun rose to see a variety of signs hanging , not always squarely , on the battered quarry gate . |
| 21 | I pretended to see a pin on the floor . |
| 22 | Someone described seeing a couple having tea in a restaurant with an elderly parent . |
| 23 | One witness described seeing a plume of moke and a ball of fire and then seeing a body on the road . |
| 24 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 25 | Not long after that , witnesses near the St Claude Avenue Bridge , eight miles away , reported seeing a man and a woman go by on a motorcycle . |
| 26 | Rescue teams were alerted when two golfers reported seeing a body falling through the sky . |
| 27 | The only clue they have was provided by neighbours who reported seeing a silver or grey car driving away from Greta Avenue after gunshots were heard . |
| 28 | Police are searching Ollersett Moor in the Derbyshire Peak District after a farmer reported seeing a panther in his field . |
| 29 | Two years ago , Capitol police reported seeing a figure who looked like Senator Thomas Hart Benton — thought to have left the premises in 1855 — sitting at his old desk in an historical display . |
| 30 | The Coastguard launched the Crimdon Dene inshore lifeboat and the helicopter at RAF Boulmer was scrambled yesterday after children reported seeing a swimmer floating out to sea near Hartlepool . |