Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 2 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 3 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
| 4 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 5 | I would nt be at all suprised to see them play in the ‘ theatre of dreams ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 7 | ‘ I was sorry to see them striding along the walks at Tunbridge Wells with their arms akimbo , dressed in martial uniform , ’ wrote the authoress Elizabeth Montagu that spring of some fellow members of her sex . |
| 8 | They really are a very vibrant organization , and er , I think we really would wish them well , and , and very pleasing to see them adapting to the new circumstances . |
| 9 | I think that 's what I think , but I 'm not sure that if I 'd been born here I 'd be pleased to see me walking down the lane . |
| 10 | At this Mr Healey was jolly pleased to see me trapped in the Thickets of Quotation , and , again merrily , said , ‘ Plato ? |
| 11 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 12 | Dr Livesey came out of the house in time to see me climbing into the stockade , and my friends welcomed me happily . |
| 13 | We pour much time , money , anxiety and effort into our children simply for the pleasure of seeing them grow into the kind of people we long for them to be . |
| 14 | On seeing them waddle down the street , like a mass of quivering flesh , we usually ran upstairs to warn Mum of the advancing horde . |
| 15 | I hope that gradually we will stop seeing them begging on the streets without any prospects for their future . |
| 16 | Far from being an eyesore , local people get pleasure seeing them blowing in the wind . |
| 17 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 18 | After all , have you seen me moping around the place recently , getting depressed , crying ? |
| 19 | In desperation , he might appeal to witnesses who had seen me sitting on the bench in the park while he was talking to my double outside . |
| 20 | I did n't even wait for the curtain call and the audience must have seen me charging through the lobby as they made their way out . |
| 21 | He 's seen me talking to the great Walter Schellenberg . |
| 22 | I 've never seen them walk round the flats , I 've seen the odd one or two with the security guards , |
| 23 | I 've seen them towing across the sky with Beecham 's Pills written on them er it was a familiar sight in Walsall at the time , and also sometimes they had a plane sky-writing and they used to write Rinso in smoke in the sky . |
| 24 | He took his glasses off and put them on the table , and his eyes were dancing as she had n't seen them dance since the night he had revealed the identity of Miguelito . |
| 25 | I came over it below the farmhouse and hugged the side wall like I 've seen them do in the movies until I could peer round into the farmyard . |
| 26 | I 've seen them taken to the sea too and er have a job to round them up . |
| 27 | Fo to make sh little nappies for the baby that was just been born and no clothes ready or fo and I 've I 've seen her you know as poor as we were my mam would sit there was patching sheets and er but I 've seen them whipped off the bed and put on somebody 's bed while they were having a baby or whatever . |
| 28 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 29 | The last time I saw Leeds win a cup match was almost 3 years ago ( Aston Villa 4–1 ) and since then I 've seen them lose to the Scum ( *3 , Rangers , and Arsenal(*2) . |
| 30 | You may have seen them walking through the woods and thought that they have a nice easy job . |