Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | A.A. personnel reported seeing it crash , and Robertson was credited with its destruction . |
| 2 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 3 | Anna 's blue eyes seemed to see too much , and Merrill had already had enough of that discomfiting shrewdness from Luke . |
| 4 | It is said that a deputation of quarrymen came to see him with a view to getting a trade union recognised . |
| 5 | All eyes turned to see him twisting his triangular hat as if that action alone was holding him together ; his face white and despairing . |
| 6 | Mum 's eyes popped to see me bringing home the fireman . |
| 7 | One of the Frenchmen glanced to see what it was . |
| 8 | Having sealed one hole with foam plastic , one of the electricians decided to see whether there was still any draught coming through . |
| 9 | Just before my sister-in-law died , Jack and the kids went to see her . |
| 10 | A couple of the heads appeared to see devolution as an additional chore aimed simply at calculating how to allocate the money and making the books balance . |
| 11 | ‘ I am dead in law ’ — but of the girl he denied that he had ‘ attempted to vitiate her at Nine years old ’ ; for ‘ upon the word of a dying man , both her Eyes did see , and her Hands did act in all that was done ’ . |
| 12 | The Icelanders had seen precious little sun that summer and peeling noses were instant and plentiful . |
| 13 | Whereas the late nineteenth-century organizations had seen themselves as combating indiscipline , irreligion , immorality , and social neglect of their members , the Scout movement looked to encourage certain positive values necessary for national and imperial security . |
| 14 | All this I knew before we met one warm summer Sunday , after the brothers had seen my unfinished manuscript . |
| 15 | And Rital , whose east European eyes had seen been and done it all for more of a century than she chose to admit , merely shrugged and locked the door . |
| 16 | His sharp eyes had seen a figure moving in the darkness in front of us , and as the man came closer , I could see that it was indeed Stapleton . |
| 17 | Other pilotage parties had seen mixed fortunes : Don Amer 's help was spurned by one flotilla officer who managed later to put his cargo personnel ashore 1½ miles ( over 2km ) off their target . |
| 18 | But it was too late , their kids had seen me . |
| 19 | The enemy Dragoons had seen Sharpe and ridden to the water 's edge , but none tried to cross the deep river . |
| 20 | No one in the cars had seen the tottering figure further down the road . |
| 21 | I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk . |
| 22 | I am sure that if the gentlemen had seen what they were getting they would have changed their minds . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State 's announcement reflected what , in the light of the consultation and public discussion , local authorities and schools wished to see . |
| 24 | Wilko came top by miles in a phone in vote of who YEP readers wanted to see as the new england manager ( 2nd coppell , 3rd keegan , 4th Atkinson , 5th Gerry Francis , 6th screaming lord such ) |
| 25 | His mental imagery , on the other hand , reflected influences from wider sources and to understand this we need to examine what is known about the relatively young pope — he was 37 or 38 — elected to the chair of St Peter in January 1198 , whose reign later generations came to see as " the apogee of the medieval papacy " . |
| 26 | In spite of their divided , defeated and reactionary Kultur , the Germans came to see themselves as people who needed no emancipation . |
| 27 | Rescue teams were alerted when two golfers reported seeing a body falling through the sky . |
| 28 | By undertaking mathematical activities themselves , and through discussion with members of staff , parents began to see that there was an alternative , and viable , view of mathematics . |
| 29 | This insight was ignored until the new generation of experimentalists began to see heredity as a process transmitting characters through the line of reproductive cells , independently of the adult body . |
| 30 | The consultants and registrars undertook to see the X-rays and examine the patient , document appropriate treatment and countersign the request forms during the pilot study and until the training had been completed . |