Example sentences of "see [pron] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 2 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 3 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I have to see someone for a minute . |
| 5 | I have n't seen them for a while |
| 6 | ‘ Have n't seen you for a while . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Have n't seen you for a while , Mac , ’ she said , tight-lipped as she dropped the cheese rolls into a brown paper bag . |
| 8 | I went out and saw it a minute ago and I thought I 'd bring it in and I thought I had n't seen you for a couple of days . |
| 9 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 10 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 11 | Oh I was very , I have n't seen him for a while , being ill you do n't , but er , he was always sending messages of good will when I was in hospital . |
| 12 | They got worried when they had n't seen him for a while . |
| 13 | We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified . |
| 14 | I have n't seen him for a while actually . |
| 15 | I have n't seen him for a day or two , ’ said the girl , ‘ but he usually comes in about now . ’ |
| 16 | She had not seen him for a month . |
| 17 | Have n't seen her for a couple of month , have you ? |
| 18 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 19 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 20 | Have n't seen her for a while . |
| 21 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 22 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 23 | ‘ Nobody 's seen her for a week , and she 's not taken any of her stuff . ’ |
| 24 | I have nt seen it for a while and it was one of the more pleasing aspects to the Oldham game . |
| 25 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 26 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 27 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 28 | That should see me for a while . |
| 29 | ‘ Can I see you for a minute ? ’ |
| 30 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |