Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] see [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to see Dr Mortimer , as I knew nobody else in the village . |
| 2 | How I wish I 'd seen Shirley Cowling 's article ( Nov '91 ) on ‘ Choosing the first machine ’ eight years ago ! |
| 3 | I 'd seen pub bands , that was all . |
| 4 | But I 'd seen Dick Cleave and Les Petherbridge , good men both of them , choosing to hang on at the Gazette for ever . |
| 5 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 6 | Maybe it was because I 'd seen Ronnie Lane of The Faces — who was my hero at that age — wearing a pair on TV . |
| 7 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 8 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 9 | So I came to see Dr Bailey . |
| 10 | " I came to see Dr Graham two months ago . |
| 11 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 12 | A movement had startled me and I turned to see Robin-Anne Crowninshield , dressed only in a white nightdress , standing in the main companionway . |
| 13 | But it got to the stage that I dreaded seeing Mr B 's smiling face in the press box at Blues games , as it was sure to mean another gloom and doom match report in the ‘ Ulster ’ that night . |
| 14 | Shopping in the market place for some more knitting wool , I loved seeing Sir Adrian Boult buying brussel sprouts . |
| 15 | I called to see Great-Aunt Alicia quite by chance . |
| 16 | Nick and I went to see Canon Oates and we knew after only a few minutes in his company that he wanted to help very much . |
| 17 | That evening , I went to see King Lear at the Old Vic , but I was unable to shake off my self-pity and I could n't for the life of me see what the old git was moaning about . |
| 18 | ‘ I went to see Mrs Prosser at the Swan , a pretty women dying I fear of consumption which she caught of her sister … |
| 19 | To learn about this , I went to see Mrs Susan Joel and her helpers at Dore near Sheffield , as they prepared their 1987 well-dressing . |
| 20 | Naturally , I went to see Buckingham Palace , not dreaming on that occasion that I would not only see it again but actually enter the premises . |
| 21 | Have got today ( Monday 17th ) off ( yippee ! ) but have n't done much — slightly hungover from last night , I went to see Tex Mex with Ruth & Euan & some of their friends , the food was great , & so today had a long lie in then went to a few shops … which were n't open because it 's an Edinburgh holiday … |
| 22 | I went to see Development Officer Gerwyn Lewis to hear about their latest venture , but first we talked about some of the woodland traditions . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | During my stay my mother and I went to see Dr Agerholme . |
| 25 | I was so worried that one evening I went to see Dr Sambataro . |
| 26 | As soon as I could I went to see Aunt Louise in her new home . |
| 27 | I went to see Suor Eusebia and gave her a message to deliver to Eric when the attention of the carabinieri was else where . |
| 28 | ‘ I went to see Eddie Brady , ’ began Melissa a little sharply , stung by the note of self-satisfaction in his voice . |
| 29 | And so I went to see Jack Gillam and he said , ‘ What do you do ? ’ |
| 30 | In 1990 , after several years of enforced separation ( I was forbidden from leaving Russia for a quarter of a century ) , I went to see George Dionisovich in Athens . |