Example sentences of "to see [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , but I am not a pretty young skivvy , ’ said Dr Neil wickedly , ‘ and dear Mr Sands does not wish to see me walk through the door . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I felt dreadful about it , and one morning I went to see my godfather at the Admiralty and begged him to get me into the Navy . |
| 3 | Because , if not , I 'm going to see my solicitor in the morning , cos if you wo n't speak to me , you can speak to him instead ! |
| 4 | For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing . |
| 5 | If pupils are disaffected with school because they fail to see its relevance to the labour market , then non-sexist curricula may become yet another target for displays of boredom and alienation , yet another part of the school fabric to be attacked . |
| 6 | DASA 's motives smack of industrial machismo and a desire to see its name on the nose of a jet . |
| 7 | The nineteenth century was to see its status as the language of diplomacy grow still further as it became even more a symbol of some underlying European unity which , however vague , was genuinely felt to exist by most of those who decided the continent 's destinies . |
| 8 | He raised his arm to see its motion in the flesh of his thumb , and clamped his other hand around the base of the digit in the hope of stopping its further advance , gasping as though doused with ice-water. the pain was out of all proportion to the mite 's size , but he held both thumb and sobs hard , determined not to lose all dignity in front of his executioners . |
| 9 | no , no cos she just told me this morning you were going to see her work in the morning . |
| 10 | ‘ He walked in to see her standing in the kitchen naked with burnt pubic hair , ’ said Mr Godsmark . |
| 11 | It was difficult to see her backside in the mirror , but she could make out the pink weals which had been raised on her tender white bum-cheeks by the little squirt . |
| 12 | The Communists , in contrast , are likely to see their share of the vote fall from the 11 per cent they won in the last general election to around 8-9 per cent . |
| 13 | Although the wall foundations had been totally removed it was possible to see their ghost in the place where they had been . |
| 14 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 15 | If there was to be any relationship , she wanted to see his head on the pillow most mornings . |
| 16 | Unlike other newspaper barons , he has no desire to see his face on the front of his newspapers ; unlike other Hollywood moguls , he does not make the pages of the National Enquirer . |
| 17 | Turning to look at Millie again , she ended , ‘ But one always wants more : just to see His face in the night , not in plaster , in the flesh . |
| 18 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 19 | Graham Hunsley , defending , said he was now off hard drugs , had been to see his doctor about the problem and was hoping to undergo treatment at an addiction centre . |
| 20 | The scanner comes provided with SmartScan an OCR ( optical character recognition ) and image editing utility , that will allow you to see your page on the screen as you scan it in . |
| 21 | The scanner comes provided with SmartScan an OCR ( optical character recognition ) and image editing utility , that will allow you to see your page on the screen as you scan it in . |
| 22 | If I throw in the little un , Sid Watkins will be happy to give me twenty quid Yes , I reckon Sid will be glad to see our Ma in the morning . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It had been our ambition for some time to see our dominance in the east of Scotland established without doubt by virtue of a presence in Edinburgh , ’ says Heggie . |