Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the matchman , Tom Boulton , who made me see sense and now I prefer adapted match tackle and tactics . |
| 2 | He has made me look at the world again , made me see things I had never seen before , and see familiar things in a new light . |
| 3 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 4 | She screwed her eyes up and pretended she saw evening coming on . |
| 5 | As he made for the door he heard the phone ringing in the hall and when he entered he saw Joe turn from the telephone table towards him , saying , ‘ It 's for you , Martin . |
| 6 | Francisco drove them to see Rosie next day . |
| 7 | She even imagined she saw Marc in the audience one night , his face just a pale blur beyond the footlights with all the others , but what would the jet-setting Marc Vila be doing in Yorkshire ? |
| 8 | She remembered that terrible scene with her father , when he forbade her to see Philip again and told her she was going down to Cork till she came to her senses . |
| 9 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |
| 10 | When I turned I saw Edward dancing on the shore . |
| 11 | When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that . |
| 12 | She had an idea and asked him to meet her that evening at a time which allowed her to see Shildon first . |
| 13 | As one of the torches suddenly flared he saw blood on her face , hair and shoulders . |
| 14 | They should have played a more open game and allowed us to see Bangor scoring lots of goals . |
| 15 | Sir , — It saddened me to see Mr. Reg Cleaver describe the Jews as ‘ an alien people ’ in relation to the land of Israel . |
| 16 | He challenged him to see God through his telescope . |
| 17 | From time to time , walking in the crowded arcades of the Plaza Mayor , my heart would miss a beat as I fancied I saw Jordi mingling with all those similar dark heads and slender figures . |
| 18 | As she watched she saw Sarah put both arms round Corrie and hug her with a joyful laugh . |
| 19 | Some swore they saw tears . |
| 20 | So it comforted her to see Alan lying there on her bed , his huge ancient unpolished cracked shoes nestling comfortably in the tangled mess of her grey sheets and leaking duvet and discarded purple socks , his eager owl face shining with enlightenment as he spoke abstractly of public spending projects and the American New Deal and tight fiscal policy . |
| 21 | In the 1970s Ezra Pound 's laminated view of vital and moribund cultures , centred partly on Provence , made her see M. Grimaud 's easy educating communications about the land , the lore , the language in which she found herself , as a sign of real energy in his community which had been ersatz , or only wished-for , in post-Festival of Britain Yorkshire . |
| 22 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 23 | Made him see things in the cold light of reality . |
| 24 | I thinks the manufacturing experience I had was very important , because it enabled me to see things from the manufacturer 's point of view , which many retailers have n't done . |
| 25 | Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding . |
| 26 | took me to see Romeo and Juliet . |
| 27 | In fact a couple of nights later he took me to see Max Miller at Holborn Empire and would not let me pay for anything . |
| 28 | Our parents would n't believe a word we said , so we took them to see Flupper . |
| 29 | They also saw the Catholic padre attached to the station and he took them to see Whitey 's grave . |
| 30 | I thought I saw Selkirk and his damned doggerel tripped through my brain : |