Example sentences of "[adj] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have gone to my own office in Whitehall , but I was due to see Sir Edmund Pusey in the evening , and I did n't want to risk running into him before I 'd managed to clear my own mind a bit . |
| 2 | He was due to see Smith next day . |
| 3 | Later this week President Reagan , 81 , — who had a meeting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace yesterday and is due to see JohnMajor at Downing Street tomorrow — is to address the Oxford Union . |
| 4 | I was peeved to see Robert Kilroy-Silk credited with inventing the egg trick in a recent colour supp. profile . |
| 5 | A stranger to the district , coming over a brow of the hill , would have stopped astonished and perhaps a little peeved to see Ploughman 's Lane lying beneath him . |
| 6 | How refreshing to see pages of letters last month ; plenty of scope for further correspondence , to which I wish to contribute as follows . |
| 7 | It would be very refreshing to see Luke embarrassed , for a change . |
| 8 | It is extraordinarily refreshing to see Kingdon 's emphasis on the geographical processes and patterns that must underlie any transformation through time . |
| 9 | Before then , he wanted Junior to see Dad 's moment of glory . |
| 10 | He had not objected to being photographed but was upset to see photographs of himself and a feature in the Sunday Mail of 4 October 1990 headed ‘ The sheer agony of a food allergy . ’ |
| 11 | As I watched her I thought Granny would have been proud if she 'd been alive to see Mary now . |
| 12 | It was pleasant to see people returning to the old ways , he said . |
| 13 | The water is normally like crystal and , if you are used to British waters , it is strange to see bubbles from other divers , rising like plumes some 40 or 50 metres away . |
| 14 | Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine . |
| 15 | Mrs Harrison , who lives in Lache , Chester , said : ‘ I thought it would be quite strange to see Gwendoline again and it was . |
| 16 | Mrs Harrison , who lives in Lache , Chester , said : ‘ I thought it would be quite strange to see Gwendoline again and it was . |
| 17 | It was strange to see Yek surrendering , but it had been Sipotai 's mistake to involve troops in a private feud . |
| 18 | In another case the court upheld an elector 's right to see council documents ( a statutory right without qualification , as here ) unless his request ‘ was so oppressive as to amount to an abuse of the right ’ . |
| 19 | It seems right to see Hubble 's greatness in recognising splendid opportunities and pursuing them with utmost devotion and superb vision . |
| 20 | But Bosnich almost threw it away in the 38th minute when he fumbled a Jeremy Goss shot and was grateful to see Earl Barrett scramble the ball past the foot of his own post . |
| 21 | Bill : It 's certainly very odd to see government posters use the words , ‘ gay or straight ’ . |
| 22 | We are sorry to see leave in October after ten years as our regional nutritionist for a well earned rest before her happy event . |
| 23 | Sha n't be sorry to see Philip go , will you ? |
| 24 | This garden 's so important I am sorry to see people coming here and hearing instead of the silence which inspired some of the world 's greatest music the jangling of cash tills in shops . |
| 25 | I was sorry to see Rocky go and I would like him back . |
| 26 | Some Leeds players are sorry to see Cantona go , but remain confident of doing well without him . |
| 27 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |
| 28 | It is possible to see groups functioning in which individuals are intent on putting forward their own views without listening and sharing their problems with other members of the group . |
| 29 | It is therefore possible to see Powell as making a serious empirical and theoretical contribution towards the development of a sociology of character . |
| 30 | However , the most efficient and productive method of finding archaeological sites is through aerial photography , since from the air it is possible to see sites which are difficult to recognize from ground level . |