Example sentences of "be see him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay .
2 During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand .
3 When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim .
4 Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time .
5 It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself .
6 Then he observed in a flat tone , ‘ What a tragedy , in that case , that you wo n't be seeing him for a while . ’
7 I 'll be seeing him before the match .
8 Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time .
9 He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema .
10 It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality .
11 The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time .
12 It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober .
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