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Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] see [art] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled .
2	Parents , friends and students came along to see the many activities and interests available to the mentally handicapped in this part of Kent .
3	Even when she had the picture in front of her , she seemed only to see the flat bloodless paper .
4	And er that was the first time I 'd ever seen a continental headboard .
5	They would n't make those weird garden ornaments if they 'd ever seen a real nome . ’
6	I never went to one , I 'd never seen a live band that actually wrote their own stuff .
7	I 'd never seen a female naked .
8	She 'd never seen anyone so transfixed , but then he 'd never seen a naked woman before .
9	It was as if he 'd never seen a naked woman .
10	I 'd never seen a white blues band playing so good and this kid , Jimmie Vaughan , was playing some of the most devastating guitar I 've ever heard in my life .
11	On 24 May 1988 , the last bit of meat went out the door , and an hour later I felt I 'd never seen a T-bone steak ! ’
12	I put my hands over my eyes to shut out my fears : I 'd never seen a dead person before .
13	But I 'd never seen the real thing .
14	We all turned up to see the mighty Linfield toss Bangor aside and we go and spoil the party .
15	He put the phone down and turned round to see the whole family looking at him , open-mouthed .
16	The driver was oiling an axle box when he turned round to see the trim figure of a young lady with a small boy near the first compartment of the carriage next to the tender .
17	She glanced up to see a familiar trim figure strolling languidly out of the entrance to the Members ' Enclosure .
18	She glanced sideways to see the hard mouth twisting in amusement , at her expense .
19	I was n't about to miss the parade , and went on to see the whole event , and photographed it — all the red flags , the guns , the cannons , the missiles , everything , including Black September Group marching .
20	My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail .
21	One afternoon we went together to see an Italian filmed opera in a small cinema off Grafton Street which specialised in foreign films .
22	And the doctor went up to see the old man and got him put in a hospital and that , in a mental hospital , for six weeks , right .
23	They both looked up to see a short , wiry little man who had been table-hopping beaming down at them .
24	He looked up to see the last of them swing a booted foot over the Baglietto 's taffrail .
25	He looked up to see the worried face of William Prime staring down at him .
26	But no one looked up to see the dead man hanging from a branch near the top of the 30ft conifer , said police .
27	Quiss looked up to see an overhead cable-car system of what looked like lengths of knotted string and bits of chain , running through little metal wheels set in the ceiling and carrying , on small hooks , cups and mugs and plates ( so that was why they had a hole at the edge ) , forks and spoons and knives of every description .
28	Greg looked up to see an elderly man , with rimless glasses , droopy moustaches and a slight air of remoteness and authority .
29	We looked up to see an old man in a flapping gallibaya pointing to the eastern shore .
30	‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands .