Example sentences of "see [pron] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our parents live some distance away , she only gets to see them every few weeks , but I 'm close to hand , I 'm here to listen . |
| 2 | Went to see them the other week |
| 3 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 4 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 5 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 6 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't mind seeing them a long way off , ’ said the worried lady nome . |
| 8 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 9 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 10 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 11 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 12 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 13 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 14 | Yeah I know I fou seen it the other day Mary . |
| 15 | In both cases the idea of purpose is only a metaphor , but we have already seen what a fruitful metaphor it is in the case of genes . |
| 16 | Someone should have seen what a good wife she would have made . |
| 17 | — You want to see who the real winner is , then look up there . ’ |
| 18 | No matter how long he waited or how often he looked up to see who the latest arrival was , he knew in his heart of hearts it would n't be his son . |
| 19 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 20 | It was marvellous to see you the other day after so many years . |
| 21 | " David Fairfax came to see you the other day , " Matthew went on . |
| 22 | Not our our owns but erm other people and they could see them the next day when the steamers went to the north isles for the er the cockerels or the hens sitting on the top of them . |
| 23 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 24 | Anyway , a bumper crop of entries have been sent in for my perusal with a phenomenal response for the Hi-Tec and Elvira puzzlers so , waffling aside , let's see who the lucky pilchards are this time . |
| 25 | so that when he sees you the next time , he 'll double check that . |
| 26 | But when we come to look at the cluster and the and the audience contact then then you know we may see something a little bit different , Okay but er those are the important aspects things like things like whoops the use of the hands you know several people put their hands in their pockets or put them behind their back or something like that . |
| 27 | I could just see it a local farmer coming out with his gun |
| 28 | I think it 's debatable how selfish people really are , particularly when they see that their are short-term selfishness may in fact create long-term problems for themselves , for their children , for their grandchildren , for er other generations and other peoples , and really as I can see it the green message is one of enlightened self-interest . |
| 29 | But did Dana see it the same way ? |
| 30 | Because the parent does n't see it the same way . |