Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked up to see El-Jorr standing in the doorway , looking at the wire that connected the receiver to the tape recorder on his desk . |
| 2 | Her thoughts still whirling , Shae looked up to see Marianne standing by the table , her green eyes calculating and faintly malicious as she glanced from Shannon to Gavin . |
| 3 | Suddenly she was aware of her cardigan being draped around her shoulders and slowly she looked up to see Nathan standing beside her . |
| 4 | Someone shouted a warning and Gallagher whirled around to see Sonny charging towards him . |
| 5 | Fowler and Andy Lloyd made a good start , Gower chipped in well , and the rest of the batsmen did enough to see England home by three wickets . |
| 6 | He did not want any services and did not see counselling help as a service a social worker might offer , nor did he want to share any grieving for his wife . |
| 7 | Some organisations do not see culture shock as a threat to the completion of a term of work abroad . |
| 8 | They do not see strike action as a real choice , and why should they ? |
| 9 | She spun round to see Marc standing in the doorway . |
| 10 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |
| 11 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 12 | We have recently seen inflation fall to its lowest level for 30 years , at less than 2% , the lowest in Europe . |