Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found herself wondering idly whether , if she and Johnny were to make love now , here beneath the apple tree , Ben would be able to see them from his garden , or Mrs Draper from her bedroom window . |
| 2 | I was sitting in my office smoking one of James 's cigarettes — not the best thing , perhaps , for the queasiness I was still feeling , but I hoped it might calm my juddering nerves — when a poked page-boy knocked on my door and said the Old Man wanted to see me in his suite . |
| 3 | Never seen him without his crash helmet on ; could be an albino or a Rastafarian for all he knew . |
| 4 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 5 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 6 | I had always admired him , ever since as a small boy I had seen him in his State robes in India . |
| 7 | He glanced at Helen as though he had never seen her in his life , and made no attempt to get up . |
| 8 | She had been on his mind since the morning he had seen her from his horse ; frightened yet defiant , sparking with anger . |
| 9 | Perhaps others , more forceful , would not have been so diffident : it is easy to imagine that Abdulnabi al-Hatash would have seen It as his duty to browbeat some sense into his juniors . |
| 10 | ‘ Actually , I have come to see you on his behalf , ’ said Mary pompously . |
| 11 | Major Tzann wants to see you in his office , right away . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Canon Wheeler would like to see you in his office at once , ’ she said distantly . |
| 13 | Poor child — he can see them in his mind 's eye , but how can he express them in paint ? |
| 14 | The only disconcerting thing about eating David Moore 's food — ‘ never cooked before July 1991 in my life ; you just need lots of cookbooks and a fertile imagination ’ — is that he can see you from his kitchen window . |
| 15 | £1,200 can see him through his course |
| 16 | And I said yeah , I said did n't see him with his bird ? |
| 17 | Oh I do n't , I just , I remember that er if you walked down er Road at night you 'd see him with his mortar board on and his curate by his side coming down to post the letters , and then when all these ladies were in Sammy shop one night being entertained by Sammy erm Father and his curate went by , and old Sammy turned round to the audience and said well if dressing up will get him anywhere they 'll be on the first row in heaven . |
| 18 | Mr H says the doctor did not speak to him and did not see him without his mother . |
| 19 | And then a few weeks ago she told me she 'd been invited to go and see him at his house or ‘ castle ’ as Blufton prefers to call it . ’ |
| 20 | Did you see him at his party . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to upset Thomas unnecessarily ; let's see him in his office or whatever he calls it . ’ |
| 22 | Paul bore all this in mind , looking down at Emily ; he could see her in his mind 's eye presiding over tea-parties at Oxford , saying the right thing to professors ' wives ; playing her part as his own wife , while he continued with his work uninterrupted except — he dared not think of it now — for the nights . |
| 23 | His wife Ellen wrote to us with this smashing picture and told us that because Russell works so much she only ever sees him in his overall or a track suit . |
| 24 | Dog sort of stood there and looked at you know , he did n't know where to put himself , let him , eventually he , he 's sort of , you can see it on his face did that , fucking thing keep away from me . |
| 25 | You can see it in his approach to acting . |
| 26 | And he 's crafty ; you can see it in his face . |
| 27 | You could see it in his face . ’ |
| 28 | She could see it in his face , his guard , for the first time since she 'd known him , completely lowered . |
| 29 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 30 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |