Example sentences of "he see [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At almost the same time , Rossmayne 's blinding rage lifted long enough for him to see what sort of woman had resisted him so resolutely . |
| 2 | We are looking forward to welcoming him to see our work at other sites and hope that he will be able to visit Risley in the near future . |
| 3 | Yeah well I do n't know about yet I think it 's too Steve might be taking him to see his nan on Saturday cos he knows Bill 's going Saturday . |
| 4 | She went with him to see his family in Ireland , and travelled to the far west of that country . |
| 5 | He wanted him to see his Father in a shooting war . |
| 6 | Some dragon of a receptionist refused to let him see her boss without an appointment . |
| 7 | To her horror she felt the sting of tears in her eyes and looked away again , refusing to let him see her moment of weakness . |
| 8 | He sees its refusal as a clear British betrayal of him . |
| 9 | As he has grown older he has become more involved with the social content of his work yet he sees his relationship to the audience in very personal terms . |
| 10 | He sees his involvement as an opportunity to have his views heard by people who have some control of the services : ‘ I liked the idea of working with people in authority . |
| 11 | He sees his university as an embryo of the future . |
| 12 | He sees his job as motivating Cry Gibson and Tim O'Reilly to achieve the highest profitable performance at Golden Gables and Trinidad . |
| 13 | He sees his age as an asset . |
| 14 | He saw her change from a carefree girl into a woman in the space of two seconds , the eyes which met his filled with pain . |
| 15 | He saw her expression of surprise as she noticed the automatic gripped in his hand . |
| 16 | He saw her look of dismay and added , ‘ But do n't worry , the canals are OK — you 'll still get your gondola ride . ’ |
| 17 | And when he saw her look of consternation he added , ‘ But no worry — we ‘ ave plenty ‘ ere . ’ |
| 18 | He saw her look from him to the key , judging the distance , assessing the possibility of getting out of the room alive , and smiled inwardly . |
| 19 | He saw her state at once and without another word took her arm and led her into the little sitting room . |
| 20 | He saw her fumble with the back fastening of her dress , and went over . |
| 21 | He expected to be patronized by Lady Grubb because he came from a lower class , about which he did n't generally care tuppence , but when he saw her effect on Algy he found it more difficult than usual to be ribald about it . |
| 22 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 23 | He saw her glance at Ludovico da Bologna whom , of course , she had met in Rhodes , and further back , in the snow with Carlotta . |
| 24 | And then he saw her pass by outside the window , and heard her climbing the steps toward the front door . |
| 25 | When he returned 30 minutes later he saw their truck in a ditch , and both women gone . |
| 26 | He saw their referral of cases to the SMG as a further way of undermining him , and he was determined to fight back . |
| 27 | ‘ He saw my shadow on the wall as I listened , and I had to escape . |
| 28 | — He saw his chance with those keys and he took it . |
| 29 | By September 1938 it was clear that Carl Burckhardt , the Swiss League of Nations High Commissioner , was not prepared to do anything to prevent the drive to Nazify the city , and that he saw his position to be that of ‘ observer ’ or , at most , intermediary . |
| 30 | He saw his election as a mandate to move Civic Forum to the right of the political spectrum and to proceed rapidly to a market economy . |