Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] see this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cumbria is rugby league mad and everyone wants to see this match . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to see this bit of paper — if it exists . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I went to see this bloke play at Ronnie Scott 's last night . |
| 10 | ( Laughing ) I went to see this lot live once and like , it was all really moody and I honestly thought the singer was about to launch into some sort of mime routine , I mean , he 's such a f—ing pansy . |
| 11 | I kept seeing this leer of his , the leer of a wary yokel , reflected in the numerous little mirrors set around Herta 's marriage crown ( traditional : to ward off evil spirits , and so on ) . |
| 12 | As soon as I had seen this reading of the phrase it at once seemed more plausible . |
| 13 | I felt that I had seen this movie before . |
| 14 | ‘ Sorry Tiffany , I 've seen this stuff in the shops , but we 're burger people , you know . ’ |
| 15 | I 've seen this stuff advertised there . |
| 16 | THIS was one of the funniest films I 've seen this year . |
| 17 | THE bleakest film I 've seen this year has to be Rush ( Warner , 18 out Nov 11 ) . |
| 18 | So when they phone up your girls and they say oh I I 've seen this promotion about a cordless phone I want the girls to ask where where did you hear about it ? |
| 19 | I 've seen this fella on the back of the bus with his bird and that and I walked down and was sitting by them and he was tooting gear , y'know , behind the back seat like that and he threw a load of gear over to me and said : ‘ Here , d' you want some of this ? ’ , y'know , monging , off his head , like . |
| 20 | Twice , three times now I 've seen this picture of a boy lying dead . |
| 21 | Oh , God , I 've seen this movie before , must I watch it all over again ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 've seen this face , ’ she whispered . |
| 23 | It 's got as bright and fierce an eye as I 've seen this side the Avon . ’ |
| 24 | It turned out a cracking match , one of the best for combined action and atmosphere I 've seen this season . |
| 25 | ‘ Barnet were the best side I 've seen this season and we have to admit they were better than us on the day but Northampton was one of those things . |
| 26 | What 's more , Charity , I 've seen this actor you were talking about . |
| 27 | I need to see this action as one step — even if we lose it will perhaps serve to show the nation how far it has fallen , that it no longer is concerned that such things happen in its midst . |
| 28 | For my own peace of mind , I have to see this man face to face . |
| 29 | Yes , I have seen this kind of thing and it is something we avoid completely . |
| 30 | I have seen this kind of thing so often , and it will serve as an example to indicate at least five fundamental errors which are extremely common : The principal errors are : |