Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] see [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Cramer came round to see Quinn during the lunch-hour , London time . |
| 2 | She 'd never seen swings like them before or since — wooden boats painted bright yellow with curlicues of red and green , where two of you sat facing each other and pulled alternately on ropes to swing yourselves higher and higher . |
| 3 | The birds were n't anything he knew and he 'd never seen toadstools like that with spots on . |
| 4 | I 'd never seen Paula in , in glasses , ever , other than in photographs |
| 5 | I called in to see Dad before coming here and while I was there an insurance investigator called Tom O'Neill came to see him . |
| 6 | Then , after the party we went along to see Man at The Lyceum . |
| 7 | I went down to see Will at ten o'clock after |
| 8 | She seemed so sanguine that he started to enjoy his leave and they all three went off to see Mona in Jermyn Street , who greeted them with her usual generous hospitality , very little of which was at her or their expense , but who had not seen Charles since his transformation from 2nd Lieutenant to Guardsman . |
| 9 | My grandmother kept scrapbooks about criminals , and I grew up seeing pictures of Leopold and Loeb . |
| 10 | Tucking it into one of the saddlebags , he looked up to see Mariana with one Greener slung over her shoulders . |
| 11 | Unlike them , Mary Queen of Scots did not see complexities in the situation ; like her grandson Charles I after her , she assumed that the expression of the royal will from a distance was enough to make problems go away . |
| 12 | His wife was a kinswoman of the earl 's councillor Sir John Pickering , which implies that Middleton did not see service to Gloucester as an alternative to Northumberland 's lordship . |
| 13 | His wife was a kinswoman of the earl 's councillor Sir John Pickering , which implies that Middleton did not see service to Gloucester as an alternative to Northumberland 's lordship . |
| 14 | Dexter did not see Blanche for another few hours . |
| 15 | Eisenhower , who was not unsympathetic to the plight of the blacks , did not see legislation as the real answer to the problem : " I do not believe you can change the hearts of men with laws and decisions . " |
| 16 | He then went into the Army and did not see Minton for some time . |
| 17 | It was stated that authorities on the Japanese constitution did not see difficulty in fitting security provisions into a treaty or placing it in a discrete American-Japanese treaty . |
| 18 | He did not see size of firm as a particularly important factor in his choice . |
| 19 | Her friends on the bridge saw the boat , but they did not see Anne under the tree . |
| 20 | He went to all the openings , parties and dinners that he wanted to and frequently did not see Constance for several days . |
| 21 | Bishops were again brought in to arbitrate ; but they did not see eye to eye . |
| 22 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
| 23 | The use of the Soviet army for this purpose ( for example in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan ) gave rise to much dissatisfaction among the troops themselves , who did not see action against Soviet citizens as part of their role . |
| 24 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 25 | She did not see Gedge until six weeks later when he arrived at their door after a minor road accident . |
| 26 | It shone ; its fine veins sparkled where the tiny gold wires crossed but she did n't see wonder in it . |
| 27 | I did n't see Ted for a while after that . |
| 28 | This is reflected in such comments as that of the Russian astronaut Gagarin who said , " I did n't see God in space " , or of the scientist who says , " You ca n't prove God exists " , or of the literalist church-goer who says , " If you do n't go to church you are not worshipping God " , or of the religious fanatic who says , " God tells me what to do " . |
| 29 | ‘ After the bust-up I did n't see Rick for several weeks , ’ Lou began . |
| 30 | Although I did n't see Charlie for months , I rang Eva almost every day for a full report . |