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Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] see [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I remember once seeing her turn into our gateway , and a boy on a bicycle spat at her .
2	That she should just forget about her lessons and rush off to see your brother whenever she pleased ?
3	The evening was now getting dark , but light enough to see my way .
4	Those of you who do not see your area secretary very often may not have seen the ‘ Banking on the Poor ’ pack .
5	And you do not see my daughter before you go , or later .
6	Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any
7	We do not see our role as merely responding to proposals produced by others for reform of the law , although this is inevitably a major part of our work .
8	We do not see his face , but we see her hands clutching his head .
9	I do n't see their relevance in our circumstances .
10	Fathers do n't have the sole authority in the home and mothers do n't see their role as servants to men .
11	Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions .
12	If I do n't see their names in the overnight declarations on Friday afternoon , I 'll be on the blower to the News of the World before you can say ‘ flagellation ’ , right ?
13	Children learn it by rote to pass examinations , and they do n't see its relevance to the world around them .
14	If you do n't see your letter here , do n't worry , I promise I 'll get round to it soon .
15	I do n't see my dad very often at the moment , unless I actually go up there .
16	It depresses me that people do n't see our sense of humour , ’ says Steve , Bruce Forsyth style .
17	How many girls or young women , with or without eating disorders , do actually see their periods in this light ?
18	I 've only seen my daughter-in-law for three minutes since I got the news .
19	Joe , shouldering his way through , called , ‘ Come out from wherever you are , Annie , I know you 're there somewhere , I 've just seen your knees .
20	I 've just seen your pic in the Standard ’ , she proclaimed excitedly , ‘ I 'd just like you to come on LBC radio tomorrow .
21	I 've just seen my father = I 'm after seeing my father
22	Mm I do n't think I 've ever seen your log effect , is it a log effect fire ?
23	YOU MAY not have heard of serial killer and cannibal Ed Gein , but you 've probably seen his movies .
24	B : quite often + about once a month + actually ++ I come up to see my children
25	Nick was walking in the garden with his father-in-law , a tall , lean , bald-headed Scot who had flown down to London for a couple of days and come out to see his daughter between one business appointment and another .
26	‘ Anyway , I 've never seen her smoke . ’
27	And we 've never seen his kids .
28	I 've never seen your house . ’
29	‘ You 've never seen our house , ’ said Tony .
30	Among the big gainers , Tonka 's 16.5% 1997 bond , Macy 's 14.5% 1998 , Southland 's 14.5% 1995 and RJR Nabisco 's 17% 2007 have all seen their price rise by half or more this year .