Example sentences of "[coord] i see [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 2 | ‘ And I seen two gulls . |
| 3 | So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that . |
| 4 | ‘ Ten years , ’ he said , ‘ ten years I 've had on this milk run , see , and I seen more accidents than I 've had Sunday dinners . |
| 5 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 6 | ‘ When the car had gone past me I applied my safety-catch and I saw Private Aindow standing in a firing position ’ . |
| 7 | And I saw one man the fact that he was me uncle do n't make any difference , but he was , and and he was very religious , very Christian man , S Sunday School superintendent . |
| 8 | and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on |
| 9 | But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’ |
| 10 | Oh I , I said that to you at the time Robert , I mean I 'll be honest and I saw that document and I nearly died and it 's the way they say it too |
| 11 | It was one of these African leaders who said : ‘ In the war-torn North-East of Rhodesia , I saw white men killed and I saw black men killed . |
| 12 | Tremayne was held in genuine respect and I saw more sympathy than smirks : yet he in many respects was the stoker of the ill-feeling between his warring jockeys , and putting me among them was n't a recipe for a cease-fire . |
| 13 | Went and I saw some monkeys though . |
| 14 | And I saw some liquorice root and I said , oh ! |
| 15 | No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it |
| 16 | Now in nineteen er nineteen fifteen , the the of course the War 'd started and I can remember this so well because the day after me birthday er there was a raid , a Zeppelin raid on and I saw this Zeppelin and that day the thirty first of January nineteen fifteen when this raid was , I wen I went to work at six in the morning and I finished work at quarter to nine at night . |
| 17 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
| 18 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 19 | ‘ We heard the noise of glass falling to the floor and I saw this group of three heading straight for the door . |
| 20 | So when this tour was advertised and I saw three days would be spent in London I just decided to go , that 's all . |
| 21 | Now , when Joe and I see each other we just get together and play a bunch of Hendrix songs . |
| 22 | ‘ Jo and I see each other every day from Monday to Thursday when the House is in session . |
| 23 | ‘ But Harry , you and I see each other every day — we always have lunch together , ’ said Dorian in surprise . |
| 24 | But I also have one of the largest training regiments in my constituency , and I see that unit erm in action a couple of times a year if if no more . |
| 25 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 26 | ‘ MY VISION IS BLURRED AND I SEE BRIGHT LIGHTS ’ |
| 27 | It 's become a truism that we despise ageing in this culture , and I see few signs of that abating . |
| 28 | I 'll never forget old , about two days I 'd been there , and I 'm going across the square and I see this bloke with sombreal on , so I did flung him up a salute cos that was wrong , he says come here |
| 29 | The type of policy we 're actually seeking is already included in the Humberside structure plan and I see this morning that er that was circulated as D four double O seven . |
| 30 | But I saw that time was much more like the growth of Mary 's reputation , devious and ambiguous , than it was like the straight line , moving remorselessly forward , which Western thought has forced it to prefigure . |