Example sentences of "i [verb] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 2 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to see into your soul while I make love to you , mia Carolina . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's something I want to see on television , ’ I lied . |
| 5 | " Yes , it is , Butterworth , Clibber , it 's not that I doubt you , but I want to see for myself . |
| 6 | I can see all I want to see from here . ’ |
| 7 | I want to see inside your lovely house . ’ |
| 8 | I woke to see through half open eyes enormous Technicolour images of baffling genitalia filling the wall . |
| 9 | It had started to snow , the first I 'd seen since leaving Toronto . |
| 10 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 11 | I put a hand into the language space and drew the briefcase to the front ; and it was of black crocodile skin with gold clasps , as I 'd seen at Nottingham races . |
| 12 | But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence . |
| 13 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
| 14 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 15 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 16 | the kitchen was piled up , I , I , Dinda took my suitcase upstairs , I 'd seen to the dog , he was very , very good in the car as you know er , I took my suitcase , I could n't get through the bedroom door , the bed clothes on the floor where it 's , where we 've had a sudden hot spell , he had n't folded them up |
| 17 | I was a trifle nervous when I remembered all the films I 'd seen about weddings . |
| 18 | The grooms on the train were all younger , thinner and from what I 'd seen of them in their uniform T-shirts less positive . |
| 19 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 20 | It was the corniest , happiest , most affectionate movie I 'd seen in years . |
| 21 | Only the diehards used them now , that was the first one I 'd seen in captivity for some months . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not Superman , my dear , ’ he made her bruised chin immediately better with that warm-sounding ‘ my dear , ’ ‘ so what else could I do — and I own that I was n't thinking at all too clearly — but appeal to the pride I 'd seen in you ? ’ |
| 23 | You would n't have heard of him , of course , but I used to read his articles to Daddy at one time , and I remember seeing in the papers that he had been very ill . |
| 24 | ‘ So I decided to see for myself , ’ the little man was saying . |
| 25 | She 's one of the old ladies I go to see for my Community Care Course . |
| 26 | ‘ St Louis Music was one of the companies I went to see at that time , and it felt like Ampeg , especially , was home for me . |
| 27 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 28 | Absolutely , I went to see at , we had to trouble at , not of our supporters |
| 29 | We paused to watch a hawk hunting above one of the islands which splits the Vltava , and I asked Ladislav about the posters I kept seeing in windows . |
| 30 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |