Example sentences of "and he [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they were gone , and he craned back to see behind him , to see if they were following . |
| 2 | Then a voice spoke , and he realised , incredulously , that Dinah Asshe was here before him , and he had not seen her because he was looking at the dog . |
| 3 | And he had also seen , with a flash of insight , that being ‘ kind ’ to Sandra was the worst cruelty he could inflict on her . |
| 4 | Menachem Begin used to come here during the 1948 battles to this house , and he came up to see us three or four times during the fighting to have coffee and biscuits with us . |
| 5 | and I got back home , and somebody must have told him where we lived , he got my address from somewhere and he came up to see Irene and I . |
| 6 | Do n't know , it does n't seem to be doing anything and what the was that during the week when was in residence one night the dogs barked and he went out to see what was happening and there was a young man who worked in it this was in the pitch dark , was up there taking some of his stuff away . |
| 7 | The birds were n't anything he knew and he 'd never seen toadstools like that with spots on . |
| 8 | And then he had a wonderful form of arithmetic ; and he divided up to see how much the stack weighed . |
| 9 | He wondered whether there had been others , also tucked out of sight , and he tried again to see a connection between the recipients he knew of . |
| 10 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 11 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 12 | There was , Henry had noticed , a specially reverent way of saying ‘ thank you ’ when accepting a cheese and tomato sandwich at a funeral reception and he did not see why people should develop critical faculties just because they were swigging back a wine glass containing a fair quantity of the domestic bleach known as Finish 'Em . |
| 13 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 14 | My move woke him , and he did not see me . |
| 15 | His eyes were back on the road and he did not see Madeleine 's mouth turn down in a pout . |
| 16 | He did not see Crosland hinting at wanting to ‘ nationalize ’ or exert control over the universities , and he did not see the DES as being ‘ jealous of the universities as is sometimes suggested ’ . |
| 17 | But he pointed out that Borders and Highland regions had already agreed not to back a referendum and he did not see that position changing . |
| 18 | He had his eyes downcast when they came to the corner of the great hall , and he did not see the Prince approaching , leading by the hand an unknown lady . |
| 19 | He did n't burden the uniformed branch with his problems and he did n't see why he should have to listen to Camb 's maunderings . |
| 20 | Dad did n't speak to Mum on the phone , and he did n't see her , knowing that this was for the best in the long run . |
| 21 | I did n't move and he did n't see me . |
| 22 | The substantial mortgage was by no means essential , but Mike 's parents had always owned a large , well-appointed home on Sydney 's prestigious North Shore and he did n't see why he should settle for less . |
| 23 | And Darren from Stoke on Trent was in the forces for three years and he did n't see any bullying at all . |
| 24 | he was far too close to it and he did n't see what was happening you see . |
| 25 | He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’ |
| 26 | There are over 150 and he has already seen all but 40 . |
| 27 | Mr Robert Macrae , for Burnett , told the court : ‘ He realises he was irresponsible and he has not seen or heard from the girl involved since . ’ |
| 28 | It is not I but Hywel who is deaf and he has not seen what I have seen . |
| 29 | She was so angry that she ordered my father straight out of the house , and he has never seen her since . |