Example sentences of "see [pos pn] [noun sg] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he goes , I mean he went to see my mum and dad before Christmas and they did n't recognise him ! |
| 2 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 3 | On one of our periods off duty we went to see my mother and father . |
| 4 | ‘ To see my lord and master , what else ! ’ she laughed . |
| 5 | Fred and then they all came round in the evening , and then on S Sunday , went to church and were invited out for lunch , and I went to see my mummy and daddy . |
| 6 | Cassie knew suddenly that she desperately wanted to see her mother and father before they left England . |
| 7 | She was excited to see her grandfather and uncle , running to hold up her face for a kiss . |
| 8 | I feel sorry only for Eugenie and Beatrice because they will suffer a great deal seeing their mother and father not living together under the same roof . ’ |
| 9 | Maybe seeing their mother and father in such pain was having a bad effect on the little girls ? |
| 10 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 11 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 12 | It would n't do to let him see her relief and gratitude . |
| 13 | She can not hear that much of his business life is tedious , worrying , tiring and not all that exciting ; he can not hear and see her boredom and exhaustion in his fantasy that she is the one who has everything — not having to earn , not having to stir out each morning and so comfortable with only a baby to look after . |
| 14 | There is also a contrast between the forge and Satis House as the house is barricaded and the inside is all dark so Pip has to be led by candlelight to Miss Havisham and when he first sees her all in white she looks like a fairy godmother but as he looks closer he sees her decay and yellowness . |
| 15 | The other soldier explained that his friend had intimations that he would never see his wife and child again . |
| 16 | And he could see his Mum and Dad outside the house talking to Jack . |
| 17 | ‘ He is many hundreds of miles away from his family and likes to go home and see his mother and father , who are elderly , ’ said Mr Ripman . |
| 18 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 19 | The Profitboss sees his time and energy as a primary investment source . |
| 20 | The man spits hatred at anyone who sees his humiliation and affliction . |
| 21 | We 'll both see your Mum and Dad together and make all the arrangements . ’ |
| 22 | yeah , when we came back , did we see your mum and dad and Philip when we came back from that ? |
| 23 | Let's see your chest and abdomen . ’ |
| 24 | Once , he thought he saw her stop and wave , but he could n't be sure . |
| 25 | The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia saw its dismemberment and division into more than 300 individual and sovereign states and principalities . |
| 26 | Only much later did it occur to her that this was her failure : academically self-sufficient and wholly self-centred she saw their sullenness and ignorance as their concern and their fault . |
| 27 | I think I saw his Mum and Dad . |
| 28 | She saw his sister and nephew next morning as she was loading her car with her carvings to take to the hospital . |
| 29 | Now he saw his chance and desperation forced him to take the risk of climbing down on to the line in the darkness . |
| 30 | Witnesses at their wild parties saw his restlessness and rage . |