Example sentences of "[verb] to see [pron] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wait to see them next morning , but they do n't come back . |
| 2 | One of them came to see me last night when I got back from Paris . |
| 3 | The new owner , Mr. Bolsover , came to see me last week , and I 'm afraid he may not let us go on using the barn . |
| 4 | you 're not too sure what he wants , he 's agreed to see you next week , he does n't know why he 's seeing you but you go back and you present , so try and overcome rejection but the thing was he wants to in the first place . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's hard for people to really understand and identify with a problem , whether it 's Aids , Somalia or pollution , until they really get to see it first hand , ’ reflects Hines . |
| 6 | We were coming to see you last night , and then all day so he said it were n't fair to go anywhere like he was . |
| 7 | ‘ Yesterday probably because the photos were n't in the house when I called to see him last night . |
| 8 | But you want to live to see your fifth grandchild , I think ? |
| 9 | In the country as a whole a staggering two-thirds of black babies are born to unmarried mothers ; 43% of black children are , by government criteria , born poor ; many do not live to see their first birthday . |
| 10 | All attempts by the parents to have a Lydia or a Charles would be doomed to failure : one Lydia just lived to see her first birthday — the first two years of life seeming to be the most dangerous by far for the poor little infants — and the next passed away at the age of three , baptised at St John 's but buried by the Baptists of Badcox Lane . |
| 11 | You have to see them first hand . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't agree to see you last week because I wanted to give you any information . |
| 13 | erm because my grandmother wanted to see her first grandchild before she died . |