Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] see [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it was his example that led me to see beneath the brilliance and beauty of Paris , where the plight of its dispossessed is mirrored in the experience of the very people — artists and intellectuals — who are responsible for its reputation . |
| 2 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 3 | He is near enough for his bulk to cut out the reflection of the sky and so his own reflection does not reproduce his colours but allows us to see into the water . |
| 4 | The court was told that the accused had used matches to help them see in the barn . |
| 5 | Well let's see you see at the end of the day will probably suit you better er cos she 's quite mature is n't she for her age ? |
| 6 | One of the first signs one sees at the airport challenges , in English : ‘ Take a chance on success ! ’ |
| 7 | Well it was just the They had the tables set you see in the hall . |
| 8 | ‘ Like we saw in the magazine . |
| 9 | " I guess you saw through the governor 's speech last night , Chuck , did you — all that hypocritical talk about the civilizing mission ? " |
| 10 | Cos she showed up , a lot of them show tendency at home or er say some of the ones she 's just asked us to see in the office anyway . |
| 11 | You absolute bastard Mr what did you see of the crime ? |
| 12 | Did you see over the top ? |
| 13 | ‘ And what else did you see from the Ridgery ? ’ he asked more gently . |
| 14 | ‘ What prints did you see by the moor gate ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ What did you see in the paper ? ’ asked Bobbie . |
| 16 | ‘ What do you see beyond the mask it presents to visitors ? ’ |
| 17 | It was a case do you see of the end itself changing in the course of a war . |
| 18 | I mean , where do you see at the beginning ? |
| 19 | Yes how do you see at the moment how do you and how how |
| 20 | What do you see as the role of Government in promoting UK exports and how do you feel this compares with the support received by other European businesses ? |
| 21 | Who do you see as the sort of holding responsibility for training ? |
| 22 | Till we had a customer do you see through the office in . |
| 23 | " How do you see in the dark ? " |
| 24 | " All right , how do you see in the dark ? " |
| 25 | ‘ And what else do you see from the Ridgery besides unicorns ? ’ he asked . |
| 26 | Sister Rosa , Sister Rosa , what do you see from the turret ? |
| 27 | Mrs Smith accepted a sherry from her husband and looked resigned about the outcome of the evening and eventually excused herself to see to the dinner , and Mr Smith poured more whiskies and ‘ something harmless ’ for Nutty , which tasted delicious and brought on an amazing feeling of optimism . |
| 28 | The most I 'd allowed myself to see of the inside of that room during his three months at Sleet was himself half naked ruled into a margin of light . |
| 29 | Help you see in the dark . |
| 30 | In the words of his 1906 paper , ‘ the seismograph enables us to see into the earth and to determine its nature … as if we could drive a tunnel through it . ’ |