Example sentences of "[verb] see [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 2 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 3 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 4 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 5 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 6 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 7 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 8 | You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up . |
| 9 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 10 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 11 | I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her . |
| 12 | He used to come to see me in the prison . |
| 13 | The elderly lady found a private moment in which to invite her hostess to come to see her in the room she occupied in her daughter 's house . |
| 14 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 15 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 16 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |
| 17 | We have come to see it through the eyes of the people who take part in it . |
| 18 | ‘ Captain Aranyos wants to see you in the south chapel of the Stefansdom at three o'clock , ’ she blurted before he had the opportunity to broach the subject . |
| 19 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 20 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 21 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 22 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 23 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 25 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
| 26 | He came to see me after the performance — several times , in fact . ’ |
| 27 | Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners . |
| 28 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |
| 29 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 30 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |