Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 2 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 3 | The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs . |
| 4 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 5 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
| 6 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
| 7 | ‘ A French officer called to see me yesterday about the Hamnett affair . ’ |
| 8 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 9 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 10 | Peter first came to see me halfway through the golfing season . |
| 11 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 12 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 13 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 14 | no here they are , I know I 've seen them somewhere on the window sill |
| 15 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 16 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 17 | ‘ When I 've seen you safely on the train , I should still have time enough to get to the auction . ’ |
| 18 | You went and , you went and sat down and I seen yous fucking between the so I went and sat down . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've seen him around with the Padre too . |
| 20 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 21 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 22 | He had seen her perfectly in the light from the passage . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 24 | Maggie was even more startled to find him alone when she came in and instantly relieved that she had n't allowed the boy who had seen her home from the village further than the road gate . |
| 25 | Whether it was during a healing , or during one of those morning meditations , I ca n't remember , but I had to assure Christopher that although I had stayed to every meditation and seen it through to the end , and although he had brought God , and probably Jesus Christ in upon several occasions , my original It was as intact as it had ever been . |
| 26 | He replied , apparently to the students ' dissatisfaction , that he had himself encountered nothing of the kind and indeed that many of those who had started off the war with him and seen it through to the end had become major military commanders . |
| 27 | Erm , we 've seen it also through the budget process , where all the way through , and it 's been a very open process , we have no alternative proposals from the Conservative group , they have complained and have criticized but they have offered no alternatives . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , no-one 's ever seen it apart from the Headmaster . |
| 29 | He had seen it too in the mass he had witnessed in the church of Gesù Nuovo . |
| 30 | Not that she had seen it so at the time . |