Example sentences of "[verb] to see [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I had n't thought of that , but I hate to see you so cold . " |
| 2 | This time , she said under her breath , I want to see them fucking perfect . |
| 3 | ‘ Franca , darling , I want to see you very much , you know that , but — ’ |
| 4 | ‘ As long as you remember that I want to see you as little as possible . |
| 5 | I had n't expected to see you here this evening . ’ |
| 6 | She did n't really expect to see him again that night . |
| 7 | People reading this are going to see you as objectionable , arrogant , self-satisfied and only amplifying their prejudices towards a band like Drop Nineteens . |
| 8 | ‘ But I would like to see you again this evening to take a fuller statement . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't like to see you so worried . |
| 10 | The real Louise Müller 's sister is visiting Vienna , and called to see me earlier this evening . |
| 11 | He sometimes speaks of the scientific method as one of the possible methods of responding to doubt , sometimes as a ‘ way of life ’ , but he always seems to see it as optional though supremely rational . |
| 12 | Nicandra dreaded ever having to see him again this embarrassment and fear engrossed her more fully than her love had ever done . |
| 13 | ‘ But it was upsetting to see her so unhappy . |
| 14 | When the cops went to see him again this afternoon , he flatly refused to say why he was there , where he stayed , or anything about the trip . |
| 15 | Let's go to see you tomorrow Other languages have PrOnominal systems much richer than the English one : in Japanese , pronouns are distinguished also with respect to sex of speaker , social status of referent and degree of intimacy with referent , so , for example , the second person pronoun kimi can be glossed " you , addressed by this intimate male speaker " ( Uyeno , 1971 : 16-17 ; Harada , 1976 : 511 ) ; and village Tamil has up to six singular second person pronouns according to degree of relative rank between speaker and addressee ( Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 3206 ) . |
| 16 | So it looks as though our scheming is of no avail , though we are still hoping to see you here one day — surely our wild country must appeal to a shooting man ? |
| 17 | Rather than call it ‘ primitive ’ , I prefer to see it as direct , relating what happened on the Earth directly with events in the heavens . |
| 18 | She could not bear to see him so miserable and cast down . |
| 19 | Kraal who had been Woil 's greatest mocker and enemy now became his greatest friend , for he admired Woil 's cunning and quick thinking , and grieved to see him so downcast . |