Example sentences of "[vb past] see [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 2 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 3 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 4 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 5 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 7 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
| 8 | He came to see me after the performance — several times , in fact . ’ |
| 9 | Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners . |
| 10 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |
| 11 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 12 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
| 13 | She stopped me in town funny enough erm oh a good couple of weeks ago like , she says to me oh have you heard , cos I was saying about oh we 'd seen something in the shop , it was ever so nice , I said oh I 'm too fat for that she said ooh have you seen , she must be erm infat you know bloody infatuated with dieting |
| 14 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 15 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 16 | She stared at him and , as her eyes met his , once again , like the moment he 'd seen her in the pool , she seemed unable to look away . |
| 17 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 18 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 19 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 20 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 21 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 22 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing — I asked if he knew if she 'd seen anyone in the hospital recently , before we contacted Records . |
| 24 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |
| 25 | Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said . |
| 26 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 27 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 28 | ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed . |
| 29 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 30 | Mark Kiff went to see him on the day he took his test . |