Example sentences of "[verb] see [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then how do you explain the fact that the kidnappers phoned urgently , demanding to see Ubaldo in person , at a time when you were still in Rome and no one supposedly knew you were coming except the authorities ? ’ |
| 2 | I only appear to see Leeds at Wembley or mid-week Cup games recently . |
| 3 | " You came to see Doris about bed-bugs . " |
| 4 | A few days later Mr Churchill came to see Edward at Buckingham Palace . |
| 5 | It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him that she thought she 'd seen Amy on Friday night . |
| 6 | Connections : I 'd seen Nevil at Sedgeley House ; I 'd seen Jo at the Mimosa Club where Nevil was supposed to work , or at least beat up barmen . |
| 7 | It may mean a 5 a.m. start from the country if she is to have her regular swim before going into the office , but if she is going to see WHS in Swindon or Heathcote in Warwick , it is more convenient for her to stay in Gloucestershire than to come back to London . |
| 8 | The snag is it means you ca n't rent a car : they insist on a credit card for that nowadays so you 're going to see America by bus . ’ |
| 9 | This note is to thank you very much for going to see Paul in hospital . |
| 10 | and er from there we er head for , we 're going to see Dave at Gillhead and then we 're coming home |
| 11 | ‘ Not only do I have Penny 's word for it , but I happened to see Nicky on television last night , participating in a chat show that always goes out live from a studio just two blocks away from our own building here . ’ |
| 12 | Anne felt guilty that she had not attempted to see Kathleen after Ella 's injury . |
| 13 | Lancret may have seen Blaise in action and reproduced his image retrospectively . |
| 14 | It was time to move on to the offensive : ‘ What I 'd like to know is how you managed to see Newley in Primrose Hill at six o'clock . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I always go to see Kitty on Fridays . ’ |
| 16 | I went to see Sleepless in Seattle last night . |
| 17 | Together they went to see Baldwin after dinner and persuaded him , apparently without great difficulty , to go out , if he had to , with a bang and not a whimper . |
| 18 | Mosley did not go to see Hitler until April 1935 . |
| 19 | In 1977 yet another alibi witness surfaced , one Richard Hurn , who knew nothing of the case or of McMahon 's imprisonment but told a friend that he remembered seeing McMahon in London on the afternoon of the murder , a date which for other reasons he had cause to remember . |
| 20 | Indeed , one Wettin of Reichnau , a visionary monk , claimed to have seen Charles in Purgatory , where the purifying flames burned away his lust in preparation for his entry into Heaven . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've seen Madonna in person and , before that , I thought she was at least cute . |
| 22 | It was ironical that ten days before he had seen Shiva at Heathrow . |
| 23 | No one had seen Basil in Dorian 's house tonight . |
| 24 | And he only found out from one of his operatives who had seen Bernard at Beirut Airport last night . ’ |
| 25 | He had seen Hugo from time to time in the intervening years ; he knew from Hugo 's cousin Christian that his former tutor had fallen on hard times . |
| 26 | The young man went on staring at him ; the idea that he had seen Dyson on television seemed to be too far-fetched even to penetrate his consciousness . |
| 27 | Rex Cunningham had told her that he had seen Clare in possession of a photograph of me which had convinced him we were intimate friends . |
| 28 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 29 | Theodore Mann , co-founder and producer of Circle-In-The-Square since 1951 , had seen Dustin on stage and wanted him badly enough to have dismissed two directors instead of the actor . |
| 30 | The princess decided she wanted to see Paris by night … from the well-known spots where lovers sit for hours on end . |