Example sentences of "i [vb past] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 2 | ‘ Now look , Connie me pet , it 's bleedin' cold in the parlour , ’ complained Archie , ‘ and , anyway , I got to see a bloke about a job . ’ |
| 3 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |
| 4 | ‘ I expected to see a beach ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 5 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 6 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I pretended to see a pin on the floor . |
| 8 | That was the only time I 'd seen a stick being used . |
| 9 | Over his shoulder I 'd seen a pair of beat coppers walking by . |
| 10 | I 'd seen a couple of caesarian sections , but I 'd never done one or been shown how . |
| 11 | Says Lt Watts , a Northern Ireland veteran : ‘ Before Bosnia I 'd seen a couple of bodies in road accidents but that was just it . |
| 12 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 13 | That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry . |
| 14 | I was sure I 'd seen a punch thrown . |
| 15 | I 'd seen a lot of that splashy material . |
| 16 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 17 | I 'd seen a photograph of one of those ; they cut your throat and pull your tongue out through the slit . |
| 18 | I began to see a pattern to these puzzling events , a distinct and disturbing trend . |
| 19 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 20 | I went to see a film last month and the film told me . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 22 | ‘ I went to see a film at Penzance . ’ |
| 23 | Quite recently Jack , my mother and I went to see a film called Enemies : A Love Story , a story of three Holocaust survivors set in 1940s New York . |
| 24 | I went to see a debt counsellor and she agreed to come to the bank with me . |
| 25 | So , I went to see a hypnotist . |
| 26 | I went to see a friend in Regent 's Park that evening but she was n't there , so I climbed the railings into the park , crossed the grass , and settled under an oak tree … |
| 27 | I 've , I 've just been reading here some books that I 've got upstairs , and stuff , and I I I went to see one of erm Shakespeare 's erm , I went to see a Midnight Summer 's Dream |
| 28 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 29 | So I went to see a man in Devonshire Place and he sent me down the road for a barium meal X-ray . |
| 30 | I went to see a patient , a , a , a woman who 's husband had died they 're a pa a pain because you want to ring nine nine you 've got to take the darn lock off , there 's er trying |