Example sentences of "see [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most country and metropolitan district councils in England and Wales hold definitive maps , and you can ask to see them at council offices or sometimes at the public library . |
| 2 | In addition , some Compact employers may wish to invite parents to visit their premises to see them at work . |
| 3 | ‘ Hello , ’ she said hoarsely , pleased to see them at ease with each other again . |
| 4 | " You have come here chiefly to hunt the rare wild animals in our jungles so that the people of America will be able to see them on display in the Sherman Museum in Washington . |
| 5 | This may not be feasible where there is a very large number of candidates , but if people have got through the original application forms stage of selection it will be worth making an effort to see them in person . |
| 6 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 7 | Which is going to disappoint an awful lot of women who flocked to see them in town a year ago . |
| 8 | In another sense they may seem to know them too little , to be too little able to see them in relation to other , contemporary , young people : as much chance of a fair assessment from a family as from a school . |
| 9 | The recognition of interests and groups in society , and a concern to see them in relation to government and the development of public policy represented an important breakthrough in the study of British politics . |
| 10 | One day they were told that a police officer wished to see them in connection with the charges already preferred . |
| 11 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've enough pocket-money left to see me through Christmas , and the silver money will do for clothes and so on . |
| 13 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 14 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 15 | A twenty four year old woman came to see me for treatment on the ward , a smoker . |
| 16 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 17 | But more particularly to see me on stage — tonight . |
| 18 | Mr Jaggers told me Miss Havisham wished to see me on business , so I said I would go the next day . |
| 19 | ‘ Because you ai n't going to see me till lunch-time . |
| 20 | So funnily enough , the girl that I made friends with when I was a tracer , Penny , erm she came to see me in land army uniform you see , and I said , ’ Right , if I ca n't go in the forces , I 'll join the land army ’ , so I said ’ alright ’ . |
| 21 | Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice . |
| 22 | Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with ‘ flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice . |
| 23 | You want to see me in gaol . |
| 24 | I can not want a man who wants to see me in gaol . |
| 25 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 26 | Now she is absolutely delighted to see me in Formula One . ’ |
| 27 | D' you want to see me in prison ? ’ |
| 28 | The police team had gone from her house , she had managed to avoid seeing them at work by her long session with Gabriel and John Coffin in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 29 | Select committees have had substantial coverage , but all the evidence suggests — and this is my own impression , having served or attended many committees over the years and now seeing them on television — that , with a few minor modifications , the ways these committees work is little changed . |
| 30 | It meant a new way of looking at reading errors , seeing them as evidence of children 's use of linguistic knowledge . |