Example sentences of "see [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no desire to see Gerald playing the handsome patriarch . ’ |
| 2 | But he said er , and I said that I gather you 're seeing Lynda the weekend if you do find anything perhaps you could pass it on to her . |
| 3 | Even seeing Arabella might be unwise . |
| 4 | So when Andrew started seeing Sarah , the Princess took a back seat . |
| 5 | He managed to free his head and threw the jerkin to the floor , to see Madra there with a heavy tray at the table . |
| 6 | ‘ Ay , ’ rejoined Mrs Beattie , realising she had lost the first round , ‘ I was just on my wey up to see Thomasina . ’ |
| 7 | She had left London without seeing Newman , telling him in a letter she was staying at her sister 's place in Southwold further up the Suffolk coast . |
| 8 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 9 | They should have played a more open game and allowed us to see Bangor scoring lots of goals . |
| 10 | Question mark , What that means is , four o'clock you go home , you pick the kids up from school , you take them all to MacDonalds , you all have Big Macs , yum , yum , then you go off to the pictures , and they all want to see Arnold Schwarzenegger blowing somebody 's head off , and you want to watch Bambi or whatever it is . |
| 11 | They had been to see La Boheme , at which Mr O'Hara had cried quite openly , and which Ellie had sat through dry-eyed , but with a breaking heart . |
| 12 | Daphne had indeed introduced her to Guy , only a few weeks before , when Daphne had persuaded her to make up a party to see La Boheme at Covent Garden . |
| 13 | She went on seeing Jim , his friend , his appalled good friend , just as before — perhaps even in his own bed , Albert realized , since the shift-work timing of a customs officer 's job made the logistics of adultery comically easy . |
| 14 | We 're seeing Jim a week on Tuesday are n't we ? |
| 15 | Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine . |
| 16 | He successfully repaired the engine and could not resist the chance of seeing Brooklands , the centre of British Aviation . |
| 17 | One such occasion was Labor Day 1949 , when my parents went off on a holiday barbecue or picnic and deposited the three oldest toys — David [ eight ] , Johnny [ six ] and Alvin [ four ] — with a teenage black babysitter named Earl at the Ritz to see Li'l Abner [ the early black and white version , with Buster Keaton in a small part ] and I Married a Witch . |
| 18 | Hari turned to see Ben Jones smiling down at her , his cap in his hand . |
| 19 | It was unusual to see Ben so indecisive . |
| 20 | I guessed he was going to see Ben Gunn , and thought the doctor was lucky to be walking in the cool shadows of the wood . |
| 21 | He said he 'd been to see Ben who was living on the Jonquil . |
| 22 | He was surprised to see Mrs Brocklebank and slightly more surprised to see Ben Brocklebank whom he had never absolutely believed in before , thinking him more an excuse than a man , someone Mrs B. sheltered behind when it suited her not to do something . |
| 23 | I have n't been to Hong Kong to see Ben |
| 24 | Middlesbrough 's assistant racing manager , Craig Latcham , said : ‘ It is great to see Middlesbrough doing so well , but Wednesday night matches hit our attendances hard . |
| 25 | ‘ It would be very sad to see Middlesbrough without first-class cricket . ’ |
| 26 | A party of Czech academics called in to see Middlesbrough Mayor Eddie Bolland yesterday . |
| 27 | When we reached the Hall , Sir Henry was very pleased to see Holmes . |
| 28 | In France itself the Valois family had good dynastic reasons for wishing to see Isabella removed from France and embroiled in English domestic politics : Charles IV was the last of the Capetians in the direct male line , and the question of Isabella 's title to the throne , or her right to pass the title to her son , might soon arise . |
| 29 | ‘ Is your contact who reported seeing Manescu board the Travemünde ferry for Helsinki reliable ? |
| 30 | ‘ I was sceptical when we went to see Nella . |