Example sentences of "see sir [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a mile or two they passed an old farmer and asked him if he had seen Sir Hugo and the hounds . |
| 2 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 3 | A terrified housemaid , eyed sternly by Mr Multhrop , admitted to seeing Sir Thomas in his room during the course of the evening . |
| 4 | Shopping in the market place for some more knitting wool , I loved seeing Sir Adrian Boult buying brussel sprouts . |
| 5 | He was born in 1898 and one of his earliest and most vivid memories was of seeing Sir Henry Irving in The Bells , an event which sparked off a life-long passion for the theatre . |
| 6 | It is a salutary lesson on the stability of this precept to see Sir Peter following the precedent set by his predecessors in Sir David McNee and Sir Kenneth Newman , both of whom , as I have indicated above , rejected the internal desire to philosophize or be discursive . |
| 7 | He fastened his seat belt without speaking and the Rover slid gently into Broadway , the road he had crossed less than a fortnight earlier on his way to see Sir Paul Berowne . |
| 8 | Maginnis would like to see Sir Patrick Mayhew fulfil his promise to give the talks ‘ direction and focus ’ by presenting his own ideas for the future . |
| 9 | I could have gone to my own office in Whitehall , but I was due to see Sir Edmund Pusey in the evening , and I did n't want to risk running into him before I 'd managed to clear my own mind a bit . |
| 10 | ‘ Your Grace , I and two others were some way behind , bringing up the spare horses , and came on the scene only in time to see Sir Edmund at grips , and the battle all but done . |
| 11 | He sent his private secretary down the corridor to see Sir Norman Brook to ask if they could be provided . |
| 12 | He told a surprised Buckingham , who greeted them in the hallway , that he wanted to see Sir Richard and Lady Isabella and other members of the household in the hall immediately . |
| 13 | ‘ Then why did n't you go to see Sir Charles ? ’ |
| 14 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 15 | I would like to see Sir John in love . ’ |
| 16 | As chairman of the Co-operative parliamentary group , I was delighted to see Sir Dennis Landau 's comments on behalf of the CWS . |
| 17 | I would sometimes ride on the back to go to chapel , or shopping , and the furthest I ever went was when Uncle Tommy took me to Middleton in Teesdale to see Sir Robert Fossett 's Circus . |
| 18 | Star spotters on the other hand were only to happy to see Sir DAvid who 's filming a new TV series aptly enough on plants . |
| 19 | It was thus all the more interesting to see Sir Keith outlining the importance of citizenship as an aim of any agreed curriculum in the relative tranquillity of the 1980s . |
| 20 | First , let us see Sir Fulke . |
| 21 | ‘ If you did not see Sir Charles , you must tell me why . |
| 22 | Did you see Sir John Harvey-Jones on the television sorting out the problems of the Bradford Royal Infirmary ? |
| 23 | But their laughter soon stopped when they saw Sir Hugo 's horse running wildly towards them without a rider . |
| 24 | At noon the King saw Sir Herbert Samuel at the Palace . |
| 25 | At the table just beneath the dais , running parallel with it , they saw Sir Richard Springall , red-faced and deep in his cups . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw Sir Charles staring at something behind me . ’ |
| 27 | I saw Sir Henry pull his coat closer round him . |
| 28 | Shifting her chair position slightly , she saw Sir Thomas 's face pale with emotion , she saw him pick up Angelina 's hand and kiss it with devotion . |
| 29 | Did it send a feeling of revulsion down you er when you saw Sir Edward Heath shaking hands with Saddam Hussein yesterday ? |
| 30 | He saw Sir John set his mouth and glare from beneath bushy grey eyebrows . |