Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hardly remember having muffins before , although I 'd seen the muffin man in his white apron , a towel over his arm and a tray of muffins every Sunday afternoon . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a direct result of seeing the need for something different that could allow people to go out to sea no matter what the weather was like outside , that I went to see the lifeboat just over a year ago . ’ |
| 3 | I said , more 's the pity and that I had seen the term both in the Petit Larousse Moderne and the Figaro Littéraire . |
| 4 | Once I 'd seen the recording of the race I knew , although perhaps I did n't want to admit it straight away . ’ |
| 5 | Well , and then I went on to Rome to look at a Goldoni production and I had to see the Pope , but I tell you — I hope you 're not Catholic — the sight of the old pullet being cheered up the aisle of St. Peter 's … |
| 6 | ‘ I was living in a council flat with two young children and I went to see the housing boss , which was him , to ask for a bigger place . |
| 7 | You know , and all old people 's things , like when they , when we old pensioners were being er , er knocked about on the erm highways and byways a couple of years back and I went to see the , the local police officer , what did he turn round and say , there all domestic affairs , they did n't want to know , yet the press will print , print these every week . |
| 8 | on Tuesday morning , and I went to see the secretary on . |
| 9 | And then was it er a little while after that Malcolm and I went to see the |
| 10 | and I went to see the old chap , cos he 's got the election |
| 11 | Erm , on Saturday , we erm , Rebecca and Claire and I went to see The Seagull . |
| 12 | It bounced up and I turned to see the ball hovering above my stumps . |
| 13 | ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case . |
| 14 | Whereas I had seen the doctor who used the charity format as something of a villain , Bulgakov portrays himself as a hero in these stories and plainly expects his Soviet readership to do the same . |
| 15 | I was beginning to get scared even before I 'd seen the film . |
| 16 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 17 | Even so , it set up a security precaution that had occurred to me when I 'd seen the cylinder . |
| 18 | When I went to see the family , the mother was very rational and calm and the girl told me : ‘ there must be millions like me , Mrs Kazi . |
| 19 | When I went to see the director of Albanian radio and television , I tried to describe the difference in atmosphere between a British and an Albanian election campaign . |
| 20 | He was playing Puck and when I went to see the Company doing it well they had a completely different way of doing it , they wo they did it really like er a dec you know the the mechanical play , I do n't know if you know A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 21 | He was playing Puck and when I went to see the Company doing it well they had a completely different way of doing it , they wo they did it really like er a dec you know the the mechanical play , I do n't know if you know A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 22 | When I did see the full list I was very scornful — speaking in public ? making a recording ? conducting a committee ? — ME ? |
| 23 | Suddenly I found myself moving forward and I crouched a little as I had seen the experts do in films . |
| 24 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |