Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] see much [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has not seen much of Montparnasse recently , she confesses to her readers , she has been staying indoors ‘ nursing a sick wasp and writing a comic romance . |
| 2 | They came with a boat , and did all their shopping in Tobermory , so we did not see much of them at all . ’ |
| 3 | She did not see much of Florence as they roared through it in the jeep , just a muddled impression of large buildings and a broad dark green river , but as they began to drive up the steep , swooping hill to Fiesole , David 's friend said : |
| 4 | Theda did not see much of the gentleman , for he ate with Araminta in the breakfast parlour , while Theda always had her meals in Mrs Diggory 's little pantry . |
| 5 | Of the tax paid by Osaka 's residents and businesses , 84% goes to central government ; they do not see much of it again . |
| 6 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 7 | Sensuality had disappeared in the Fifties ; except maybe for Elvis , you did n't see much of it . |
| 8 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 9 | They were mostly LTIs [ long-term inmates ] so I did n't see much of them . |
| 10 | I did n't see much of Will 's wife . |
| 11 | Connie held that it was a simple matter to forgive your enemies because , if you had the sense you were born with , you did n't see much of them , whereas with the way society was constituted , you spent most of your time with your nearest and dearest , and the things they could do to annoy you made the whole concept of forgiveness extremely difficult to entertain . |
| 12 | I did n't see much of her recently anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ No , only that she did n't see much of you … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We did n't see much of them , ’ Woodruffe went on . |
| 15 | I was way down the other end , so I did n't see much of it . |
| 16 | ‘ You said you did n't see much of your family until recently . |
| 17 | Tha , well you did n't see much of it did you ? |
| 18 | ‘ He 's OK , ’ I replied , ‘ Do n't see much of him . |
| 19 | I do n't see much of them unless they want something and they do n't see much of me . |
| 20 | I do n't see much of them unless they want something and they do n't see much of me . |
| 21 | I do n't see much of Fullblast now . |
| 22 | ‘ Although we both live at home , we actually do n't see much of each other during the week . |
| 23 | ‘ Now that I do n't see much of Ian there 's no one to call me Floss anymore . |
| 24 | The rivers : there was the Severn , but you do n't see much of the Severn — and there 's another one called the Avon , and lots of canals . |
| 25 | ‘ Everyone was so happy because we do n't see much of Garry , Maeve and the kids . ’ |
| 26 | We do n't see much of them in the daytime , but at night the bedbugs crawl out from under our mats , and we listen to the cockroaches munching away merrily in the food-basket between our heads , and to the brittle scrabbling of their feet on the ceiling a couple of feet above us . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't see much of Clare these days , Miranda said . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's the kind of bond you can never break , even if you do n't see much of each other . ’ |
| 29 | Something else you do n't see much of these days is n't it ? |
| 30 | Do n't see much of that happening actually . |