Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] see " in BNC.
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1 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
2 | Angie Bowie : ‘ The Christmas before recording ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , I had flown back home to see my parents . |
3 | She had looked round once to see if her guests were all in situ and observed that almost all the chairs were occupied . |
4 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
5 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
6 | The morning after he had left his swimming things in the stolen Mini , when he had gone up early to see old Bones , he had found Nails fast asleep in the straw in the chestnut mare 's box . |
7 | If he had lived long enough to see Henry crowned king at Westminster he would have been able to carry out his plan of leaving Anjou to his second son Geoffrey . |
8 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |