Example sentences of "[noun sg] see [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 2 | Once more , Huy had no opportunity to see out , but guessed from the number of twists and turns it made that they were taking a deliberately tortuous route . |
| 3 | Now that there was a little light to see by , Angalo was trying to read it . |
| 4 | That 'll give us more light to see by . |
| 5 | The same rules for planning light fittings apply in the kitchen as everywhere else in the home : general light to see by ; work light to work by ; an accent light to show off anything particularly worth looking at . |
| 6 | B A er had a very clear dominance at Heathrow , erm it was a dominance that erm has effectively been erm given to them on a plate by the government , or successive governments over the last fifty years , erm and which in effect saw off you know , Laker , B Cal , Dan Air , Air Europe , erm and er and er and er it 's it 's them having that dominance and then being able to erm er effectively misuse that dominance by er by using the dom the dominance on say the routes which say Virgin Atlantic do n't fly to er actually damage Virgin on on on the routes that erm that we do fly . |
| 7 | It had been a mere moment of whiteness seen out of the corner of her eye but it had not moved purposefully like a horse does with a rider . |
| 8 | Across the road to the butcher 's where they looked in the window to see back at the reflection of Hogan 's Outfitters and realise that Sean Walsh had gone back inside to the empire that would one day be his . |
| 9 | GREAT GRANNY , 75 , DOES A LINFORD TO SEE OFF BURGLARS |
| 10 | Paint hole on glass and charge to see through ? |
| 11 | The authority of the UN has been bolstered and Iraqi aggression seen off . |
| 12 | there is a continuing struggle between accurate reflections on the distant surface of the river and increasingly rich golden browns as the eye sees down through the clear water in the foreground . |
| 13 | Creating a border to see out the summer |
| 14 | The briefing over , he returned to the countryside to join his company commander in his trench to see out the remainder of the night . |
| 15 | Only Bristol and Saracens went ahead , the West Country club ploughing forcibly through the mud at the Memorial Ground to see off their opponents 13–6 . |
| 16 | She was extremely grateful and the course saw out the war in this fashion the camp never materialising . |
| 17 | Not hole to see through but glass to alter vision ? |
| 18 | By Brian Oliver Ipswich 2 Wolves 1 IPSWICH , clearly suffering from the end-of-season jitters afflicting so many of their promotion rivals , needed an 89th-minute penalty to see off an enterprising Wolves side and extend their Second Division lead to seven points . |
| 19 | Can the Directors of the Court of the Bank see down from their lofty offices to the struggles that the Bank Assistants endure/ Is it possible that the clouds get in the way ? |
| 20 | Royle , who finished his distinguished playing career at Carrow Road before taking over at Oldham , destroys the suggestion that the Canaries will not have the bottle to see off a glut of high-powered challenges . |
| 21 | The great skua stercorarius skua is an exciting bird to see along our coasts at this time of year as it makes its way from its northern breeding ground to its wintering area . |
| 22 | This weekend sees over runners from Ulster hospitals taking part in a province-wide 320-mile relay to raise cash for a counterpart in war-torn Ethiopia . |
| 23 | PS See over for a selected list of forthcoming seminars |
| 24 | The stock market sees out 1989 in fine style . |