Example sentences of "see [art] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had cream-washed walls , brown shutters and beyond its rooftop he could see the tip of the Munster spire . |
| 2 | Landowners do n't see the public as a problem . |
| 3 | look at all the pigeons again do you want to have a bit more ? , nice are n't they ? , sit up , sit up these are juicy are n't they ? must still be very cold outside , can you see the steam from the boiler ? |
| 4 | That evening Holmes and I drove across the moor until we could see the lights of the Stapletons ' house in front of us . |
| 5 | I can see the lights from a couple of shops at the end of the driveway , but they ai n't open I think — they just got their lights on . |
| 6 | While the consultation paper claims that ‘ the legislation should leave full scope for professional judgement ’ and while it insists that the law will provide a framework , ‘ not a straitjacket ’ , there are many who will see the legislation as the culmination of a strategy to whip teachers into line . |
| 7 | He knows there 's a door and he has daylight and can see the river through the metal curtain . |
| 8 | The stonework of the parapet walls has deteriorated and you can see the river through the joints . |
| 9 | This nurse may first see the patient in the Outpatient Clinic prior to admission and usually offers a counselling service for as long as necessary post-operatively . |
| 10 | Without understanding the intricacies of these book-entries we can see the philosophy of the system : namely , that the accounts should present in a systematic and continuous way the comparison of budgeted amounts and actual spending . |
| 11 | From the lifetime budget constraint , one can see the equivalence of an expenditure base and lifetime receipts ; it is important however to note that the timing is different , and hence any taxes levied will be liable at different dates . |
| 12 | The moon was low upon our right , and in its light we could see the top of a hill . |
| 13 | He was so astonished that for a few seconds he stood where he was and when he did turn round he could see the top of the wall , the delicate pattern of wire mesh against the sky , and hear running footsteps . |
| 14 | Now walk through the Post Office on your right and you will come to the cloisters of the Carmelite nuns , beyond which you can see the top of the pediment of the Church of St Joseph . |
| 15 | ‘ I still ca n't see the top of the lights ’ , he moaned . |
| 16 | From his vantage point we could see the top of the road blazing to high heaven . |
| 17 | I could see the top of the house and one of the skylights over the loft . |
| 18 | Mrs Lane was there just below her ; she could see the top of the round , erect , crisply waved head of iron-grey hair , and the bountiful bulges , fore and aft , of the pocket-clipper figure below . |
| 19 | I could see the attraction for the Government ; a positive response was more difficult to formulate and meant more work . |
| 20 | This sounds simple enough , yet it does mean that the data subject ( to whom the information relates ) and the data user ( who puts it into a computer ) should each see the handling of the data in the same way , and this has not always been the case when data have been disclosed to third parties , or have been collected for one ostensible purpose and used for another . |
| 21 | I could see the socks inside the trainers — they were Dayglo green , the sort that used to be in fashion years ago — and they kept walking towards me . |
| 22 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 23 | The court also absolved General Jorge Rabanal , who led the operation , on the grounds that from his post he could not see the slaughter of the prisoners . |
| 24 | Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit . |
| 25 | I could n't see the head of the column , only the swinging lantern carried by the leader . |
| 26 | right , got your socket joint the same , but you can see the head of the femur is not inside it is it ? |
| 27 | At two months , you can see the head of the foetus quite clearly , and the curve of the spine . |
| 28 | Owen could see the head of the procession from where he stood . |
| 29 | Because one week we had one from a long bit ago but I did n't see the rest through the week . |
| 30 | ‘ Not short back and sides , but to just the right height so you can see the rest of the garden . ’ |