Example sentences of "[conj] see a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He returned to his workshop , hoping to bump into him on the way , but arrived without hearing or seeing a single trace of the forgetful scientist . |
| 2 | His is not an isolated story — to this day many people report hearing or seeing a strange presence on the slopes of the mountain . |
| 3 | Shildon said that a superior drinks carton had been invented and the MacQuillans faced the choice of buying the invention or seeing a competitor develop it and steal their market . |
| 4 | It 's not clear whether he 's actually thinking about a fox or seeing a fox or so , yes . |
| 5 | I imagined a morning 's stroll through quiet streets , gazing at patisseries , and then being able to nip up to Paris to visit the Musée d'Orsay or to see a major exhibition . |
| 6 | The greater the effort needed to resolve a puzzle or to see a thing ‘ whole ’ , the greater is the experience of tension or pressure . |
| 7 | The readers who wrote to us could have read a book , heard a story , or seen a film , and then forgotten about it . |
| 8 | I know that such experiences are often said to be the result of the individuals concerned having read a book or article or seen a film or television programme about the particular place and then having forgotten that they have done so . |
| 9 | When I read a book or saw a play or studied a synopsis , there came into my mental vision a fairly detailed and consecutive pattern of what the film would be like . |
| 10 | The same with Jesus , many people looked at Jesus and saw a village joiner , or saw a wandering preacher , or saw a wonder working doctor , or a political adventurer . |
| 11 | The same with Jesus , many people looked at Jesus and saw a village joiner , or saw a wandering preacher , or saw a wonder working doctor , or a political adventurer . |
| 12 | Most of the East Germans surging across said they just wanted to have a look at West Berlin , have a beer in a bar , or see a friend . |
| 13 | With the breakdown of faith in the fundamental rationality of man we no longer ask , for example , whether the drives of Freud 's Id and Super-ego are to be classed as egoistic , or see a puzzling self-contradiction in masochism . |
| 14 | Travel by luxury train to the scenic Denali , where the afternoon is yours to explore the nature trails , take photos or see a dogsled display . |
| 15 | Nothing is more heartbreaking than to see a beautiful glider damaged by incompetent handling on the ground . |
| 16 | There is nothing more dispiriting , he says , than seeing a young doctor who has spent years on a project and has no thesis to show at the end of it because the project was ill-considered and ill-supervised . |
| 17 | It is a wonderful thing to see , and somehow gives you a greater thrill than seeing a conventional float slide under the surface . |
| 18 | There was nothing he enjoyed more than seeing a couple of his subordinates at each other 's throats . |
| 19 | It had been much more exciting than seeing a weka for the first time . |
| 20 | There are few sights more thrilling than seeing a Harrier jump jet being put through its paces . |
| 21 | There 's no better entertainment than seeing a bunch of over-paid , pampered prima donnas getting their comeuppance . |
| 22 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 23 | Up until now it has maintained a purity of vision that sees a workstation not a terminal on every desk . |
| 24 | Any view of RE that sees a split between a feelings/affective approach and a thinking/cerebral one is seriously mistaken , for both are involved all the time and can not be separated . |
| 25 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 26 | They did n't regain top place until April , after a winter that saw a home defeat by strugglers Chelsea and another 'flu epidemic . |
| 27 | Shannon held out her hand to both newcomers , wondering if it was simply her imagination that saw a coolly speculative gleam in Marianne 's eyes . |
| 28 | But the novels were soon to exhibit an interest in misogyny , and to see a connection between ‘ the old hoo-ha ’ and ‘ the old last end ’ — expressions used by Ormerod and Standish respectively , in Take a girl like you , for sexual intercourse and death . |
| 29 | Psst ! ’ then , ‘ Miss ! ’ and to see a young man stepping from the side of the coalhouse where he had evidently been waiting . |
| 30 | It is still operational , and to see a ship gliding through fields and woodlands between steep mountain slopes can be quite startling . |