Example sentences of "did [adv] [vb infin] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bergg said he did not want to see law breaking but he believed home owners should use the system to insist on fair valuations which had not been rushed through by estate agents . |
| 2 | Mosley did not go to see Hitler until April 1935 . |
| 3 | For funerals , the Reverend Bottingley felt , were not a woman 's occasion , they were too hard on the emotions , and on the feet and knees , and he did not like to see women weep in public . |
| 4 | But Horsley did not seem to see things like that , and he had cheered them up mightily with a little speech congratulating them all and insisting ‘ the team ’ must stay together . |
| 5 | It was clear to Alexei that if the Merkuts did not wish to see Jehana given in marriage to Artai , there were reasons which had nothing to do with the suitability of the match . |
| 6 | ‘ But I did n't want to see Nicola dead . ’ |
| 7 | She was thankful for that , because she did n't want to see Miguelito tonight . |
| 8 | His guys showed up from Washington and they did n't want to see shit . |
| 9 | She did n't want to see Paul . |
| 10 | She did n't want to see Joe or anyone else ; she wanted to close her mind to the outside world and crawl back into the safe , controllable environment of her imagination . |
| 11 | I mean , my immediate management , , now in , in a crisis she 's brilliant , you see , I , I do n't know whether this with this the other day , whether she did n't go to see Paul to see what I 'd say |
| 12 | I did n't expect to see zander as they do n't like clear shallow water on bright sunny days do they ? |
| 13 | Did n't expect to see people like that though . |
| 14 | Do you say , ‘ I have seen enough , I did n't come to see sights , I want to go home ’ ? ’ |
| 15 | I felt I did n't need to see Moby unless matters deteriorated in the weeks after Jeanne contacted me . |
| 16 | Bez got all upset and started muttering and picking at his scabs and Shaun Ryder kept going on about how it was Bez did n't like to see men cows doing it and he was n't going to apologies for it . |