Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , my legs have rarely seen a Bic razor you know , I 'm gon na wear a pair of shorts in the summer , I might shave 'em , but I |
| 2 | Another fortnight 's quiet made us coax my parents to come up to see Barrie 's ‘ What every woman knows ’ with Barbara Mullen . |
| 3 | The people that I want to have as my friends have never seen me . |
| 4 | She had refused to believe it at first , her mind so full of him that her eyes kept on seeing him , playing tricks on her , raising false and cruel hopes . |
| 5 | A lot of her friends dropped by to see it . |
| 6 | The neighbours and their children crowded around to see what was going on and to hear the conversation between Granny and Dad . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you think , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ that your husband and his forefathers have never seen storms before and do n't know what standing orders to give ? |
| 8 | Mr Wood reported to me that his servants had never seen such splendour and , as they carried it up to my rooms — where it sits safely ! — they felt like pirates from the Spanish main , he said , hauling off the booty ! ’ |
| 9 | Dr Carson described it as a ‘ very rare ’ cause of death and said that neither he nor his colleagues had ever seen cases with such severity of infection of the umbilical cord . |
| 10 | It is vitally important to us in France that our customers do not see Courtelle 's commitment to them as in any way secondary . ’ |
| 11 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |