Example sentences of "see him [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 I have not seen him since this morning . ’
2 I have n't seen him since this morning . ’
3 Eden wrote : ‘ After three months without a comment from the Prime Minister ’ ( he had not seen him during this period , which included the ‘ internationalization ’ of the Spanish Civil War ) , ‘ I found this an astonishing doctrine , ’
4 So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out .
5 She had never seen him in this mood before , but the expression on his face was familiar .
6 ‘ Do you know , ’ she said , ‘ I have never seen him in this room .
7 ‘ I do n't know what he does but I 've seen him around this area .
8 Charles put on a brave face to the world , but secretly he was in turmoil for many , many months ; and one other person who helped see him through this period was Diana .
9 ‘ I ca n't see him like this , Liddy ! ’ said Bathsheba , looking in horror at her dusty dress .
10 I thought we agreed you would n't see him till this was over . ’
11 To see him in this way has made it possible — has made it logical and rational — to set fire to the night skies of Iraq .
12 It was amusing for Charles to see him in this state , his usual poise unbalanced by childlike curiosity .
13 ‘ He does n't want the world to see him like this , ’ says Howard .
14 I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad .
15 He would like Isobel and Dorothy to see him like this .
16 It hurt her to see him like this , resorting to holding her here to get revenge on Steve .
17 His face seemed familiar somehow , and yet I could n't recall seeing him in this place before .
18 Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it .
19 I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him .
20 He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life .
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