Example sentences of "do n't see the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I did n't see the relevance of something that happened a long time ago . |
2 | I did n't see the beginning . |
3 | ‘ I was very sad that Julia did n't see the boy , ’ George says . |
4 | You would n't offer them art if you did n't see the chance of slapping on the cost of paint as an extra . |
5 | Directly into a drain , so we never s that 's why we did n't see it , because the water was actually pouring down a drain , so of course we did n't see the water lolling up the waterlogged ground , otherwise we 'd have spotted it earlier . |
6 | I do n't know if the I did n't see the water over it because we went , Jim and I went out at about erm ten o'clock |
7 | His eyes lifted to the window , but they did n't see the telegraph wires or the railway tracks or the range of dusty yellow hills beyond . |
8 | Roger Blyth , chairman of the Swansea selectors who was one of Saturday 's touch judges , said : ‘ I did n't see the incident but it 's quite obvious that the bloke was cut from contact with a boot . |
9 | ‘ It is a pity you did n't see the girl at the place she died . |
10 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
11 | No I did n't see The Bill |
12 | ‘ Georgi was too busy getting himself lost , he did n't see the lorry . |
13 | But I did go to America and so I did n't see the climax of the series , Henry V , until … |
14 | And we did n't see the warning signs and then when we had this serious situation it er it it nearly it nearly swamped us . |
15 | Because one week we had one from a long bit ago but I did n't see the rest through the week . |
16 | And now I have had a letter from Katie Mallett , saying she will not be entering no 3225 ‘ because I did n't see the TV exposé of Summerhill , and have n't got the faintest clue what it 's like ’ . |
17 | I deliberately did n't see the play because there 's always a danger in getting too obsessed with what was on the stage and feeling you must n't tamper with it when you translate it to film . |
18 | Speaking from her hospital bed , with 24 stitches in a face wound , Mrs Thompson said : ‘ I did n't see the explosion . |
19 | So preoccupied was she thinking about the unseemly position of her raised buttocks , that she did n't see the whip rise to crack across her beleathered fundament . |
20 | However , Ambrose also found that these ‘ spiralists ’ did take part in community life , and did n't see the village as a transient bus stop as Pahl had forecast . |
21 | He was lying on his back , resting his head in his clasped palms , because his borrowed boots were hurting , and therefore did n't see the look of explosive anger suffusing the Old Stager 's face . |
22 | ‘ I would be delighted to design the flowers for your wedding … | ’ The daydream was so engrossing that she almost did n't see the man and the girl struggling on the pavement opposite . |
23 | We did n't see the scale of the thing . |
24 | We did n't see the ball go in because we were on the 9th tee , but we heard hell of a din behind and Tom said , ‘ Some guy must have holed out . ’ |
25 | She was toying with the sand , scooping it up and letting it trail through her fingers , and she did n't see the expression in his eyes when he next spoke . |
26 | When I picked up the ball I did n't see the crowd , just that basket . ’ |
27 | She did n't see the grimace of annoyance cross his face at her desertion , but Martin did . |
28 | The other officers chuckled but Nicholson did n't see the joke . |
29 | Plummer did n't see the joke and glanced irritably at Hitch , waiting until they calmed down . |
30 | ‘ She insisted we did n't see the show before the first night , ’ explained Waterman . |