Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for you , you 'd better come to see me this afternoon . |
| 2 | We happened to meet up that very night , at The Marquee where we 'd all gone to see Thin Lizzy . |
| 3 | In the end , he 'd just had to see . |
| 4 | He said he 'd always wanted to see St Matthew 's . ’ |
| 5 | I debated whether to call on him to kill him for his slanders before I came here to try to see her , and ask her to have me back — if you think I would make her a suitable husband , that is . |
| 6 | But I was also glad he 'd never asked to see any of mine . |
| 7 | Nicandra dreaded ever having to see him again this embarrassment and fear engrossed her more fully than her love had ever done . |
| 8 | The fourth and fifth editions followed in 1741 and 1747 , although Thomas Martyn confessed never to have seen a copy of the latter . |
| 9 | He looked backwards expecting to see the rear gunner running up the fuselage to report that his gun had jammed . |
| 10 | Moreover that we did much long to see you , the need we have to use you did provoke our hasty sending . |
| 11 | As such , you would do yourself a major disservice if you did not consider it when next you purchase a Windows word processor , and , were you unfortunate enough to overlook it , you would doubtless kick yourself when you did finally get to see it . |
| 12 | from Kingston to Lynn to Yarmouth the coast was strewn with wrecked vessels , cliffs had slipped into the sea and disappeared into the brown tide and over in the low-lying lands of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire the salt-waters swished and groped where no man remembered ever to have seen them before . |
| 13 | Yeah but I did still did see I do I wan na do a blue |
| 14 | He bored easily and though he loved beautiful women of all dimensions and aspects , he had rarely bothered to see them twice if there was not some fire of the spirit or intelligence to intrigue him . |
| 15 | Ruth had made herself up like a vampire from a horror film she had perhaps contrived to see , or some illustration in a library book . |
| 16 | But it would not do to show any emotion before the giants , who had all gathered to see Floy and Snodgrass off , or before Balor , who was waiting in high good humour at the unexpected excitement of a journey to the Fire Court . |
| 17 | The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co-operatives and credit unions . |
| 18 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 19 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 20 | I had always wanted to see Harar , which had been Burton 's objective in 1855 . |
| 21 | It was true , Greece was one place she had always wanted to see , and what had she to lose ? |
| 22 | She had always wanted to see the Spice Islands . |
| 23 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 24 | who had once cried to see them wilt |
| 25 | Rhoda had probably gone to see her sister . |
| 26 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 27 | He had often imagined seeing the enemy for the first time , but it was strange how very commonplace and yet how exciting this baptism was . |
| 28 | I had almost expected to see giant Atlantic waves smashing against the great wall but , no , the far side was still quite calm , sunshine , a picturesque blue bay , shell white/silver beaches though , on the horizon , ominous looking ranks of white surf . |
| 29 | I wished indeed to have seen more — his talent appears to me very great . ’ |
| 30 | Another witness had earlier reported seeing four hooded and shackled men under arrest at the military section of the airport during the coup , but there was no way of identifying them . |