Example sentences of "they [vb past] see a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 2 | They asked to see a doctor and Zahira was taken to another part of the building where , she says , she was superficially examined by a doctor and a nurse . |
| 3 | The Chirwas say they came to see a sick relative . |
| 4 | In so far as they did see a coming energy source they thought it would be atomic energy , and they wrote the treaty that 's called the Euratom Treaty to cover this , but it did n't cover oil , and that is perhaps why it 's been a much less contentious subject . |
| 5 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |
| 6 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , on reaching the spot where they had seen a person loitering , there was no one to be seen . |
| 8 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 9 | They had seen a tiny marble-topped table in the kitchen , big enough for one person to eat at , perhaps two at a squash . |
| 10 | There was another story about a blind mother , whose son did not return after the battle ; she wept when he did not return , and asked the survivors if they had seen a young and lovely boy lying slain , dressed in delicately embroidered garments of fine silk , and the survivors said No , they had seen no boy , but they had seen a great bearded man dead , and he had worn tied about his waist strange garments , torn and faded and old , which had once been embroidered with flowers . |
| 11 | There was another story about a blind mother , whose son did not return after the battle ; she wept when he did not return , and asked the survivors if they had seen a young and lovely boy lying slain , dressed in delicately embroidered garments of fine silk , and the survivors said No , they had seen no boy , but they had seen a great bearded man dead , and he had worn tied about his waist strange garments , torn and faded and old , which had once been embroidered with flowers . |
| 12 | When Melinda answered him in fluent Arabic , they all looked at her as if they had seen a ghost , bade us goodnight , and melted away into the darkness again . |
| 13 | The Pretender nearly gave the game away by holding his skirts too high crossing a stream : ‘ some women whom they met reported that they had seen a very big woman , who looked like a man in woman 's clothes . ’ |
| 14 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 15 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 16 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 17 | Matthew Clarke , QC , for TV Licensing , part of the Post Office , maintained that two officers who had called at Mr Guest 's house had genuinely believed that they had seen a flickering light . |
| 18 | The district council were monitoring the situation and they hoped to see a satisfactory solution in the near future . |
| 19 | They wanted to see a positive statement from the Government which demonstrated our commitment to the future of the railways . |
| 20 | They wanted to see a battleship launched , they wanted to see Royalty in action , they wanted to see anything that was happening which was an event in the world , and so cameramen like George Albert Smith , and eventually George Albert Smith 's staff , would go out around the world , much as it would happen now but in a much simpler way , erm to make actuality pictures . |