Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] see [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen pub bands , that was all . |
| 2 | I went to see Development Officer Gerwyn Lewis to hear about their latest venture , but first we talked about some of the woodland traditions . |
| 3 | NME news editor Chris Hutchin interviewed Elvis ' manager and found that Colonel Tom Parker had yet to see any of his charge 's films : ‘ I went to see Kid Galahad but the theatre was full an ’ I did n't see the point of taking a seat that could be sold to a paying customer . ’ |
| 4 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 5 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've seen bullet wounds before . ’ |
| 7 | Now I 've seen club owners in the movies , and I 've listened to their talk in person , but I 've never heard anyone using a word like muppet before . |
| 8 | I 've seen Christmas Fayre come around six times , he thought . |
| 9 | I have seen Water Board engineers using angle rods to locate a water main , presumably because it was more effective than relying on plans , which are apt to be inaccurate , and easier than trial and error . |
| 10 | I have seen battle fleets in the Black Sea and the great war galleons of the Caspian . |
| 11 | I have seen magazine articles in which experts say that there never were any salmon pink Fenders , yet I know there were , because I had one . |
| 12 | He had taken it , now , that she was not going ; she expected to see resentment blossom , but he did not resent it . |
| 13 | Why do you want to see Earth Commander ? ’ she asked . |
| 14 | Rico threw her off , and she turned to see Mamma d'Agostino standing in the doorway . |
| 15 | She kept seeing copperplate graffiti on Stewart 's posters , ‘ You ca n't fight City Hall . ’ |
| 16 | From the description and sketch you drew I 'm sure you 've seen Link Stakes . |
| 17 | She had seen Detective Inspector Montgomery earlier on , passing a window . |
| 18 | ‘ When we asked to see test results so we could recommend the products with some confidence we were told that the data was confidential , between Colin Isaacs and Loblaws . ’ |
| 19 | We want to see shit happenin' . |
| 20 | We 're here because we want to see Earth Commander . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Are we going to see Laurentide Ice ? ’ |
| 22 | Finally we give in and rent the movie we ignored a few months ago when we went to see Midnight Run . |
| 23 | We 've seen community participation in trying to come up with immediate solutions to the problems resulting from the war — we 're talking particularly about materials and infrastructure . |
| 24 | Even before we had left the environs of Mount Pleasant airport , we had seen upland geese grazing unconcernedly alongside the runway , and we crossed creeks where small parties of speckled teal were swimming . |
| 25 | Over the past couple of years we have seen application tools embrace the facilities offered by the Windows front end or graphics user interfaces ( GUIs ) . |
| 26 | ‘ We have so far switched around 250 cars to diesel and we have seen fuel savings of 30–40 per cent . |
| 27 | Will the Secretary of State make clear to the summit that after fourteen years of this government we have seen unemployment treble to three million unemployed . |
| 28 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 29 | Prosecution witnesses , brothers Oswyn and Orwel Williams , told the jury they remembered seeing line marks on Paul Jones ' legs . |
| 30 | They 've seen teaching machines come and go . |