Example sentences of "to see [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no desire to see Gerald playing the handsome patriarch . ’ |
| 2 | He managed to free his head and threw the jerkin to the floor , to see Madra there with a heavy tray at the table . |
| 3 | ‘ Ay , ’ rejoined Mrs Beattie , realising she had lost the first round , ‘ I was just on my wey up to see Thomasina . ’ |
| 4 | They should have played a more open game and allowed us to see Bangor scoring lots of goals . |
| 5 | Question mark , What that means is , four o'clock you go home , you pick the kids up from school , you take them all to MacDonalds , you all have Big Macs , yum , yum , then you go off to the pictures , and they all want to see Arnold Schwarzenegger blowing somebody 's head off , and you want to watch Bambi or whatever it is . |
| 6 | They had been to see La Boheme , at which Mr O'Hara had cried quite openly , and which Ellie had sat through dry-eyed , but with a breaking heart . |
| 7 | Daphne had indeed introduced her to Guy , only a few weeks before , when Daphne had persuaded her to make up a party to see La Boheme at Covent Garden . |
| 8 | Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine . |
| 9 | One such occasion was Labor Day 1949 , when my parents went off on a holiday barbecue or picnic and deposited the three oldest toys — David [ eight ] , Johnny [ six ] and Alvin [ four ] — with a teenage black babysitter named Earl at the Ritz to see Li'l Abner [ the early black and white version , with Buster Keaton in a small part ] and I Married a Witch . |
| 10 | Hari turned to see Ben Jones smiling down at her , his cap in his hand . |
| 11 | It was unusual to see Ben so indecisive . |
| 12 | I guessed he was going to see Ben Gunn , and thought the doctor was lucky to be walking in the cool shadows of the wood . |
| 13 | He said he 'd been to see Ben who was living on the Jonquil . |
| 14 | He was surprised to see Mrs Brocklebank and slightly more surprised to see Ben Brocklebank whom he had never absolutely believed in before , thinking him more an excuse than a man , someone Mrs B. sheltered behind when it suited her not to do something . |
| 15 | I have n't been to Hong Kong to see Ben |
| 16 | Middlesbrough 's assistant racing manager , Craig Latcham , said : ‘ It is great to see Middlesbrough doing so well , but Wednesday night matches hit our attendances hard . |
| 17 | ‘ It would be very sad to see Middlesbrough without first-class cricket . ’ |
| 18 | A party of Czech academics called in to see Middlesbrough Mayor Eddie Bolland yesterday . |
| 19 | When we reached the Hall , Sir Henry was very pleased to see Holmes . |
| 20 | In France itself the Valois family had good dynastic reasons for wishing to see Isabella removed from France and embroiled in English domestic politics : Charles IV was the last of the Capetians in the direct male line , and the question of Isabella 's title to the throne , or her right to pass the title to her son , might soon arise . |
| 21 | ‘ I was sceptical when we went to see Nella . |
| 22 | I do n't think that that chance will come until your husband retires so , in the meantime , you must learn to see Germany as your home . |
| 23 | The mestizo looked up to see Trent watching him . |
| 24 | At one end fast-medium bowler Hill-Wood vigorously shone the ball on his trousers , only to see Ian Peebles at the other end undo his work by rubbing the shine away in the dust . |
| 25 | Well it 's quite fun just going off for the odd day cos then he goes off to see Ian , he enjoys that but it was two afternoons last week cos I did Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon |
| 26 | She looked up in surprise to see Jason with an unusually serious expression on his face . |
| 27 | It seemed linked in a way with my wanting to see Alison again . |
| 28 | No , we 're going to see Alison . |
| 29 | The man agreed that the 15-year-old alleged victim looked ‘ quite bewildered ’ when she returned to her home to see Casabona and the lodger inside . |
| 30 | Anyway … off Boy Bradshaw beetled to see Colonel Bumface … . ’ |