Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] see [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'd better see them on their way . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd better see him on my own . ’ |
| 3 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |
| 4 | Anyway , I got through to the finals , that was really nerve-racking , and my mum and my boyfriend came along to see me in it . |
| 5 | Sien came in to see him on visiting days , and she was keeping an eye on the studio . |
| 6 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 7 | I 'd not seen her for quite some time , you know . |
| 8 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 9 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 10 | We came over to see you in the Glory . |
| 11 | That she 'd had no husband , that the only man she 'd ever seen her with was — David Harland . |
| 12 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 13 | So er I thought a alright then , so I I went off like and I just heard erm and said , I went up to see her mother like and , I told her mother about it , like and that and erm her mother says different now , that she came round to see me at the time to tell , to give me a telling off like over her friend . |
| 14 | I 'd never seen him in anything as soft-looking , as human as the pair of scruffy trousers , open-necked shirt and dressing-gown he wore then . |
| 15 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 16 | I 'd never seen her without a single string of pearls , which she fingered constantly . |
| 17 | She had never come up to my room before , in fact I 'd never seen her outside her own . |
| 18 | ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course . |
| 19 | A great big THANK YOU to all of the Clothes Show Live visitors that popped along to see us at the N.E.C. |
| 20 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 21 | Warren Mitchell went around to see him after a performance and was amused — following Burton 's initial reaction to the money — when he grumbled , ‘ You wo n't believe all they give me for this ? |
| 22 | And if I visited my grandfather I went upstairs to see him in his rooms and I came downstairs to visit my grandmother . ’ |
| 23 | He did not see her at all as he got out of the car and Jenna had the chance to observe him without the dark eyes pinning her quizzically . |
| 24 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |
| 25 | She was facing the window , but did not see me beyond its screen because she was staring at Matthew McIllvanney who seemed to fill the whole room with his malevolence . |
| 26 | He did not see me behind the curtain . |
| 27 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 28 | Mr H says the doctor did not speak to him and did not see him without his mother . |
| 29 | She did not see him at once , as he stood back from the coiling smoke . |
| 30 | After that we did not see him at all . |