Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I do n't think I ever saw J[ack] work more than half an hour without the cry of ‘ Barboys ! ’ — ‘ Coming , dear ! ’ , down would go the pen , and he would be away perhaps five minutes , perhaps half an hour ; possibly to do nothing more important than stand by the kitchen range as scullery maid . |
| 2 | Mum lifted me up to see Gran and I recall the peaceful look which she had . |
| 3 | Oh let me bloody see Cassie . |
| 4 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 5 | You think I never see junkies in the wards ? |
| 6 | Always he would advise me not to see people ; not to answer so-and-so 's letter ; not to take this admirer too seriously ; not to take Count X — as a lover . |
| 7 | Well on that join I suddenly saw water rushing down the wall ! |
| 8 | The words remind us of Hagar 's cry , when she was first driven into the desert and rescued by God : ‘ Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him ? ’ |