Example sentences of "[verb] to see [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 2 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 3 | D' you want to see me in prison ? ’ |
| 4 | I was able to go to see her in hospital . |
| 5 | You want to see me in gaol . |
| 6 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 7 | I want to see you before lunch . ’ |
| 8 | I can not want a man who wants to see me in gaol . |
| 9 | I agree wholeheartedly , with what we were saying , what we do n't want to see is a whole one house block in the countryside , he wants to see it as part of a farmstead and order to prove that it 's going to be part of a farmstead , the buildings should be prerequisite to go up first before the house does . |
| 10 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 11 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 12 | MAY 1993 During the Khmelnitski exchange visit to Hunterston great interest was shown in TOP and the Director and Deputy Director of Khmelnitski NPP sat in on a team meeting to see it in action . |
| 13 | A twenty four year old woman came to see me for treatment on the ward , a smoker . |
| 14 | So funnily enough , the girl that I made friends with when I was a tracer , Penny , erm she came to see me in land army uniform you see , and I said , ’ Right , if I ca n't go in the forces , I 'll join the land army ’ , so I said ’ alright ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , give my love to cousin George and say we 'll expect to see him at Cumbermound for the show on Sunday . |
| 17 | ‘ Because you ai n't going to see me till lunch-time . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to see her at lunch time . ’ |
| 19 | He hated to see her with blood on her hands . |
| 20 | Without legal connections and with little money , he judged that progress would be easier in the provinces and went to Manchester , where he built up a mainly civil practice until Sir David Napley , Jeremy Thorpe 's solicitor , happened to see him in action . |
| 21 | Just because he 'd said he would like to see her in red . |
| 22 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd like to see you in red , Folly . |
| 24 | You must have a pre-arranged signal and I 'd like to see it in action . ’ |
| 25 | 12.40 : Saw Deputy Head re incident and arranged to see him with Class Teacher in his office when I have completed my dinner duty . |
| 26 | She turned now and looked at her mother , adding , ‘ He … he was coming to see you at Christmas . ’ |
| 27 | More women are taking up regular exercise and coming to see it as part of their lives . |
| 28 | Postscriptum : I have had Mr. Williams released from prison though I could not wish to see him at present . |
| 29 | I have to admit Mr Graham has a point here , but all I can say is that after one has been in the profession as long as one has , one is able to judge intuitively the depth of a man 's professionalism without having to see it under pressure . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd wanted to see it of course , but I also wondered why he was so desperate to get here . |