Example sentences of "[verb] to see [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 2 | She could not imagine who might want to see her at this time on a Saturday morning . |
| 3 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 5 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 6 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 7 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 8 | Now I want to see you in four weeks again . |
| 9 | I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’ |
| 10 | I 've come to see you under another guise . |
| 11 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 12 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 13 | But after a while he augmented the phone calls with occasional visits , and as the summer wore on came to see her with increasing regularity , eventually as often as his professional commitments allowed . |
| 14 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 15 | If you seek to see them with loving eyes , you will experience their beauty and be aware of their good points while making allowances for whatever may be lacking . |
| 16 | If the complex we observed was required for PPT expression we would expect to see it in these cells . |
| 17 | Seven student teachers will be taking their examinations on 21st and 28th March — we wish them luck and hope to see them at next Q.T. Day . |
| 18 | You know you wrote that letter and it said oh , I hope to see you in half term and then , then said I hope not |
| 19 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 20 | Heaven knows why , but numerous other GTi drivers seem to see us as some kind of personal challenge . |
| 21 | I 've the head of the Board of Tourism coming to see me in five minutes . ’ |
| 22 | Every night I go to see her in different plays and she 's always wonderful . ’ |
| 23 | and I , I went to see her in open evening , I could n't understand her , cos she you know , she real , I mean she is French |
| 24 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 25 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 26 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 27 | My father come to see me at one holiday and the Easter time he see something happen and they did n't like him and cos all my as cabin boy . |
| 28 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |