Example sentences of "[vb past] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Julia opened her eyes again and saw Comfort looking around her as though she expected to see men in white coats with a stretcher appearing through the walls . |
| 32 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 33 | He had taken it , now , that she was not going ; she expected to see resentment blossom , but he did not resent it . |
| 34 | That was what they seemed to have in common , that and Rufus 's brother and Adam knowing each other already , but after a while Adam got to see things he admired in Rufus , his toughness , the way he 'd got himself organized and in hand , the way he knew where he was going and yet still could be amusing and casual . |
| 35 | What with all the activity associated with moving house , it was two weeks before we got to see Arthur 's famous castle . |
| 36 | First we got to see Joey B. Where is he ? ’ |
| 37 | It was already past midnight when they got to see Dustin , who was playing pool by himself , while a huge party for the cast was going on in another suite . |
| 38 | He lived to see South Africa bend instead . |
| 39 | He thought a little wistfully of Provence , tried and failed to see Edith as happy in the Hôtel Paradis , and returned to savour anew the pleasures of Ramsgate . |
| 40 | Twice the Nigerian failed to see team-mates better positioned to worry Goram and preferred to try shots of his own that were blocked . |
| 41 | The low murmur of conversation in the hotel 's sun lounge was like the crashing of waves to Kelly as she entered to see Annie at a corner table . |
| 42 | Joanna , he was told , by a rather uppity landlord who rejoiced to see privilege spiked , was out in the fields . |
| 43 | Perhaps out of guilt , Harriet discontinued her writing and stopped seeing Mill , with whom she had dined alone twice a week , in order to nurse her husband . |
| 44 | Anyway … off Boy Bradshaw beetled to see Colonel Bumface … . ’ |
| 45 | Good humour helped to see Victor through his prolonged ill health , caused by a lung complaint which led ultimately to a transplant operation from which he did not recover . |
| 46 | It was when she described seeing film of the results of the bombing on television , and thinking : ‘ They think I did that ! ’ |
| 47 | A crewman in Samoa , which passed through the Sunda Straits shortly after the eruption , described seeing bodies and pumice stretching all the way to the horizon . |
| 48 | During the trial a witness described seeing bodies ‘ stacked like dominoes ’ amid the rubble but the cold-hearted killer from the Bogside defiantly displayed no remorse when arrested for mass murder in 1983 . |
| 49 | She described seeing Julie soliciting with other girls near the White Swan public house known locally as the ‘ Mucky Duck ’ in Chapeltown , Leeds , on the evening she disappeared , July 9 , 1991 . |
| 50 | Slipping back to rescue the camera case , Jack was charmed and moved to see Hans quietly remove all the addresses from his anorak pocket and throw them casually on the fire at the same time as he ordered a English beer . |
| 51 | I kicked off my boots and swung down below , holding onto a bared crossbeam that creaked with threat , swinging from one hand while I tried to see Harry and not land on top of him . |
| 52 | ‘ But he has n't been anywhere near our place , or tried to see Anna . ’ |
| 53 | In order to bypass this traditional way of seeing society , Marx turned away from administrative and political organization and tried to see society in different , more fundamental terms . |
| 54 | If we all tried to see things from more than our own view point , the world would be a better place . |
| 55 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 56 | I tried to see Liz about that last week , but that 's anyway , but , but |
| 57 | Allen , the Hal Far station commander , reported seeing Deacon 's combat and confirmed observing one Messerschmitt crash into the sea ; Deacon was subsequently credited with one destroyed as a result . |
| 58 | ‘ Is your contact who reported seeing Manescu board the Travemünde ferry for Helsinki reliable ? |
| 59 | A Western resident of Timisoara said that the scale of the violence in the town on Sunday was horrifying , while a Yugoslav lorry driver who came out of the region yesterday reported seeing fires . |
| 60 | Diplomats reported seeing troops surrounding Lekhanya 's home and armoured vehicles in the streets of Maseru , the capital . |