Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the creatures pictured on the page are descended from the dot but , in order to avoid cluttering the page , I have n't printed all the descendants that I actually saw . |
| 2 | ‘ I know only what I have been told , I do not remember that I ever saw him . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't remember that I ever saw that page . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well , the weirdest thing that I ever saw onstage was a murder , at the Stones appearance at Altamont . |
| 5 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 6 | But my suffrage is of little value , because this and Fort Augustus are the only garrisons that I ever saw . ’ |
| 7 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 8 | A lot of the operations now I do I think I can do better that I 'm now seeing detail that I never saw before with the naked eye . |
| 9 | I 'm glad I 'm out and I 'm glad that I never see some of them bloody people again |
| 10 | When I see a spider 's web , I no longer see the sinister aspects that I once saw . |
| 11 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 12 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 13 | That I really saw it ? |
| 14 | Involvement in these issue areas , together with the need to attend to management of the political party , means that she normally sees the Chief Whip , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer on political business more frequently than she does other Cabinet colleagues . |
| 15 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 16 | He remembered Gina 's summing-up of Eleanor 's character and told her that she only saw people as shits because she was n't woman enough to hold a man . |
| 17 | She added that she never saw the suspected occupants of the house . |
| 18 | ‘ I sometimes feel a great sense of loss and disappointment that she never saw me grow up . |
| 19 | She was not going to start lecturing him now and , in any case , insisted that she never saw her role in life as a reformer . |
| 20 | She is prone to pointing out to journalists that she has ugly hands ( her assessment ) , says she grew up thinking she was plain and now is so embarrassed by her appearance on screen that she never sees her films unless she 's forced to . |
| 21 | Do you carry one of the cards that you probably saw P C refer to ? |
| 22 | So that 's the only , only instrument that you generally see , actually see using it in most , most schools . |
| 23 | I think i this could be fairly crucial that you actually see it . |
| 24 | The down-side may be that you now see without any shadow of doubt that you can not exist in an emotional or sexual wilderness indefinitely . |
| 25 | The best of deciding to be ordained is the knowledge that you dimly see your future and have the courage to embark on an irreversible way and feel that at least you commit yourself to help humanity in its suffering or its moral predicament . |
| 26 | Who is it that you really see ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I feel very angry that you always see me in the same negative way . |
| 28 | Having fought the good fight with anti-poll tax benefits , and the recent back-to-roots tour of London 's teething ground pubs , it 's out now on another lengthy tour of all those places that you always see in the gig guides and wonder what they 're like , paradoxically to promote a single called ‘ Air Conditioned ’ , which these places rarely seem to be . |
| 29 | ‘ Why is it , I wonder , that you always see your sister as being blameless ? |
| 30 | Having fought the good fight with anti-poll tax benefits , and the recent back-to-roots tour of London 's teething ground pubs , it 's out now on another lengthy tour of all those places that you always see in the gig guides and wonder what they 're like , paradoxically to promote a single called ‘ Air Conditioned ’ , which these places rarely seem to be . |