Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wakerley suggested Miss Dart might have tried to escape , or she may have screamed , or she possibly saw Sams undisguised and had to be killed . |
| 2 | The pub was a two storeyed building , with a stable at the side although I never saw horses there . |
| 3 | He remembered Gina 's summing-up of Eleanor 's character and told her that she only saw people as shits because she was n't woman enough to hold a man . |
| 4 | Do you carry one of the cards that you probably saw P C refer to ? |
| 5 | ‘ The British mandate censor , a Jewish man called Arieh Siev — a nice fellow although we never saw eye-to-eye — refused to let us print . |
| 6 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that we already see benefits flowing from the citizens charter ? |
| 7 | The world has become so inter-dependent that we now see IBM Japan exporting American computers built in Japan to the EC . |
| 8 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 9 | For this reason , and because many of the young women I spoke to said that they never saw images of young women who looked anything like themselves , the book includes photographs , taken by Sally Feldt . |
| 10 | There were hints that they too saw signs in our future ; in second year our history teacher told us that things were easier now for Catholics than they had ever been , that we could have a place in the world , that there was even a chance that a Catholic would be President of the United States after the next election . |
| 11 | They never see the naturalists who work there , who ca n't speak Spanish anyway ; so they just see science and naturalism as a gringo thing . |
| 12 | Letterman told me that he once saw Steffi Graf playing tennis at Wimbledon . |
| 13 | I do n't remember Heighway running down the wing , and I never saw Roger Hunt hit the back of the net . |
| 14 | ‘ If I ever saw pepper coming out of a pepper pot I would find that funny . |
| 15 | It was an honest mistake and one that all of the current Leeds back four have been repeating frequently since then — however if I ever see Bredan ‘ F***k**g ’ Gormless I 'll kick his head in ( NOT ! ) . |
| 16 | I 'm looking out at the moodily lit bathroom and wondering what I would do if I suddenly saw William appear out there , flight bags in hand , a Surprise , honey , I 'm home ! look on his face . |
| 17 | The morning passed by in a flurry of activity , and she barely saw Dane , except for a fleeting moment as he rushed headlong along the corridor , pausing long enough to drop a kiss on her lips that turned her knees to water . |
| 18 | She certainly needed a break from Glyn , and if she never saw Mr Edmund Clarke again it would be too soon . |
| 19 | That night she cried herself to sleep wondering where she had gone wrong and thinking she could not bear it if she never saw Edward again . |
| 20 | Lately he had always seemed to start the day with a broken window-pane , and then suddenly one morning the front of his shop was boarded up and we never saw Mr Schultz again . |
| 21 | ‘ It was an extremely popular programme and we always saw eye to eye about it . |
| 22 | They claim that female psychologists have something special to contribute by virtue of their sex , and they often see work done by women as feminist simply because women do it . |
| 23 | We know that David 's mother is neither Carol nor Ann , who bought the popcorn , nor is she Jean , whilst Meg is Simon 's mother , so David 's mother must be Helen , and they therefore saw Mickey Mouse . |
| 24 | Natural immunity to disease is lowered as animals are pumped full of antibiotics ; they are kept in cramped spaces often unable to turn around ; they are not provided with straw to lie on ; and they never see daylight . |
| 25 | She let him tell Gentle that if he ever saw hide or hair of Gentle in the building again he 'd have him arrested as an accomplice to attempted murder . |
| 26 | Mr Hellriegel says he does not care if he never sees Mr Glennie again . |
| 27 | By what means passengers thus fasten themselves securely on the roof of these vehicles , I know not ; but you constantly see numbers seated there , apparently at their ease , and in perfect safety . |
| 28 | Christine Brooke-Rose does not go so far as to disavow authorial creativity altogether , but she too sees technology as the possible key to a breakthrough in how we think about the human subject . |
| 29 | I know we see hours of golf during the season but we also see hours of cricket . |
| 30 | But they not see Darius because he not been in since five o'clock . |