Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] see [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cumbria is rugby league mad and everyone wants to see this match . |
| 2 | I mean see last night , we went to bed last night , he came in at noon did n't he ? |
| 3 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 4 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 5 | Bartram expressed gratitude for Miller 's offer to assist him in understanding Linnaeus 's system and commented on the Swedish naturalist 's publication of all the North American plants observed by Kalm on his visit ( i.e. Species Plantarum , 2 vols. 1753 ) adding , ‘ I long to see these books — to see if they have done me justice , as Kalm promised me . ’ |
| 6 | I want to see elderly people looked after well and if they can be looked after at home all well and good but of course they need the facilities . |
| 7 | He was telling people how wonderful things would be in the future ; I want to see that future . |
| 8 | It is precisely because I want to see political changes of this kind that I support Home Rule for Scotland . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a world market of over £100 million a year in clean technology and I want to see British industry winning a much larger share of it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I want to see this bit of paper — if it exists . |
| 11 | I 've gone off him since I met Tony but we do share a love of mother earth and I want to see this thing through . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to see these insurance companies make clear to their policyholders by how much premiums are being increased , and then to justify their behaviour , ’ said Mr Cook . |
| 13 | More needs to be done and I want to see more focus on this key area of economic policy . ’ |
| 14 | I stopped seeing those flats years ago . |
| 15 | I was pretty sure I 'd seen that coin before , in that very hotel . |
| 16 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 17 | I 'd seen premature babies but never a baby that small . |
| 18 | I mean to tell you that I 'd seen old Ken |
| 19 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |
| 20 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 21 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 22 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 23 | ‘ But I was cautious about it too as I 'd seen both sides — the periods of unemployment as well as the glossy side of my father being in something so popular like Howards ' Way . ’ |
| 24 | I wait to see conclusive proof that it is possible in physical and geographical terms to bring the lines from Stratford into the proposed station at King 's Cross without making any changes whatever to the Bill . |
| 25 | I began to see one way out of our dilemma . |
| 26 | I began to see another face in the posters . |
| 27 | I know see that building over there , just go , yes terrible is n't it ? |
| 28 | But I know see enough boys are gon na say let girls in , of course , but and he 's a fool ! |
| 29 | Okay , erm I 'm a littl I 'm a little bit I 'm a little bit worried about er this er exploitation of people and security because they 've got no proven record and no medical evidence , if he was that good this guy will be a millionaire and people will be growing hair all the time , to put somebody on the chair , without knowing if that person 's got blood pressure or heart problems , they could suffer from a s a stroke erm have er or be partially paralysed , so I I think I like to see this man here maybe in ten fifteen years time with proper proven er medical evidence . |
| 30 | I remember seeing that smile and hearing that impeccably cheerful voice . |