Example sentences of "see [pron] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not have expected to see them there if we went again . |
| 2 | He bored easily and though he loved beautiful women of all dimensions and aspects , he had rarely bothered to see them twice if there was not some fire of the spirit or intelligence to intrigue him . |
| 3 | Overall , the most fruitful way to examine the interaction of courts , executives and assemblies is to see them all as engaged in a continuous process by which the law and rights are constantly being defined and redefined . |
| 4 | I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk . |
| 5 | Jack grew dizzy as he thought of it , seeing them sitting with tall glasses on a shady patio and , strangely , seeing them too as they were now , untouched by the hand of time . |
| 6 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 7 | He is persistently encouraged to see himself rather as the person responsible for seeing that learning happens . |
| 8 | I was glad he had n't seen me either as I hurried away in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | But I not seen one yet as you might call a proper bleeding accident , if you takes my meaning ? ’ |
| 10 | I had seen him once before when he had waved to me from an upper window and I had waved back . |
| 11 | And they might n't have seen her yet if Ronni had n't spoken , so totally absorbed were they in one another . |
| 12 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 13 | We 've never had hardly seen it before because I have n't lawn in that book before have I ? |
| 14 | Now we 're delighted to see you here because we know that the , the G M B shares this view and we know that you 've also been in the forefront of introducing technology , er and we know also that having you here er , having your conference here , helps us enormously to continue this process of raising the profile of the trades unions , the trades council , the labour movement in the city . |
| 15 | ‘ All the same , ’ said Araminta thoughtfully , ‘ Papa says I 'm not to see you again till it 's over , and you 're either arrested or cleared . |
| 16 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 17 | but he got a phone call on the Tuesday from Mr 's secretary to say oh Mr would like to see you anyway because er he feels it may have erm it was a letter , I 'm sorry , which came |
| 18 | You could n't see them right if you were a few yards from them , but just the figures moving you know , and their arms going backwards and fore cleaning the windows . |
| 19 | Scott does not see strata as consisting of individuals , nor does he see them simply as positions generated by the economic system , but rather as groups of inter-marrying and inter-connected families . |
| 20 | I can see them there as in a picture when , for the last time , arthritis having finally prevailed , they sat quietly together in the sun contemplating a magnificent crop of potatoes spread out to dry — the final gift of that bounteous old garden . |
| 21 | Obviously all the planets that we see orbiting the sun must be travelling at exactly the right speed to keep them in their orbits , or we would n't see them there because they would n't be there ! |
| 22 | Would you see them much when you 'd gone to work ? |
| 23 | He chose a stance high up in a plane tree where he knew that if they tried climbing he would see them long before they reached him . |
| 24 | She wanted to come and see me anyway so she 's got all my details on record . |
| 25 | You tell him to come and see me again when he 's in London . ’ |
| 26 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 27 | ‘ The Globe always sees me O.K. when I give 'em anything . |
| 28 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 29 | Do n't think we did n't see you around when Claude Rains made with the Lindbergh act , by the way . |
| 30 | Well I 'll see you tonight because I know granny |