Example sentences of "we [vb past] see [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we asked to see the tape on Thursday , the Beeb said it had mysteriously disappeared without authorisation . |
| 2 | We got to see a man . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ In my boyhood we yearned to see the Poms defeated . ’ |
| 4 | In my boyhood , we yearned to see the Poms defeated . |
| 5 | His dry sense of humour spilled over into what might have been a harrowing session and by carefully chosen words and clear illustrations we came to see the value of the painstaking work required by those at the scene of a major accident . |
| 6 | Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we 'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels . |
| 7 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 8 | We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke . |
| 9 | I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’ |
| 10 | We arrived to see the tops of the first ladder against the wall . |
| 11 | We turned to see a huge human lurching past . |
| 12 | It was only after Patrick Jenkin became Industry Secretary that we began to see the proliferation of industrial support schemes . |
| 13 | When I 'd finished we began to see the funny side of it and ended up laughing . |
| 14 | We went to see a dead man laid out , and it would be a pity not to give you an account of his state . |
| 15 | We went to see a long-forgotten Arista band who had Julia Fordham on backing vocals . |
| 16 | This afternoon we went to see a new workers ' housing estate and visited some homes . |
| 17 | The Queen 's Men came to Stratford in June , and we went to see the play . |
| 18 | So we went to see the humans . |
| 19 | The following morning we went to see the beautiful , fifteenth-century stables of the Sanvitale castle , and there , under the arcades , Eric asked me to marry him . |
| 20 | We crossed the western main line by a bridge to get to the G.W.S. Outside the first shed was King George V. We went to see the broad gauge track layout with the transit shed and broad gauge signal and after that took a look at the carriage shed which contained some clerestory coaches . |
| 21 | I remember when I was at university in Padua we went to see the basilica there . |
| 22 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |
| 23 | We went , we nearly rang you last night , we went to see the Batchelors last night |
| 24 | Did mum tell you we went to see the Bachelors last night ? |
| 25 | and then we went to see the Curly Sue |
| 26 | We did see a lot of another Miller , Professor George Miller , of Princeton University , a stolid man of undoubted erudition but with none of Jonathan Miller 's expository dynamism . |
| 27 | as abruptly as if we had seen a ghost . |
| 28 | Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across . |
| 29 | We had seen a lot of people cry in our time , but this was the first time that Quigley had done us the honour . |
| 30 | The next day the Lapp arrived for his drink , but we had seen no evidence of a trail . |