Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 2 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 3 | ‘ Th 'd best see to the port then , instead of blowing about under my feet , ’ Salt snapped . |
| 4 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 5 | They were among a few people who came back to see over the property again quite a few times , and I met their sons . |
| 6 | I draw parallel with the door and crane forward to see into the room . |
| 7 | ‘ Now I know what else it was Dr Iverson did when he went through to see to the claret before dinner . ’ |
| 8 | A number of black children , particularly boys , seem to lose interest in the school 's aims ( unless they are good at games , then they dissociate that from the rest ) in the third year and , from then , become increasingly seen as an anti-culture … probably the most striking manifestation of West Indian pupils , is just that group of large boys , and the sort of threatening physical presence , which you can see consistently around the school . |
| 9 | However , it does not follow that his patients were all more ‘ abnormal ’ than those people he did not see in the consulting room . |
| 10 | I did n't see in the end . |
| 11 | Cos you do n't see through a joke . |
| 12 | Every time Dustin saw his name in block letters on the marquee of a movie house , he was assailed with thoughts of his own mortality , a subject that constantly obsessed him , especially as he had already seen into the abyss . |
| 13 | On transferring his official residence from Burgos to Madrid , in October , Franco " toured the Sierra de Guadarrama , looking for a place he had already seen during the war " in which he planned to locate his war memorial . |
| 14 | This fluidity was partly made necessary by a rapid growth in population , and it combined with the growth in population to make the period of this book one of social and economic change such as Europe had not seen since the fall of the Roman Empire in the West . |
| 15 | She had not seen beyond the violence : she had not planned for any other outcome . |
| 16 | She was about to turn to him and demand to be taken back when he suddenly swung on to a track she had not seen from the distance . |
| 17 | When he took the ale into the warm farmhouse living room and saw everyone standing around the crackling log fire with food and drinks in their hands , he thought again of what he had just seen through the kitchen window . |
| 18 | Variations in PH away from this are typically controlled by the equilibrium we 've already seen between the hydrogen bicarbonate ion and carbonate and H plus . |
| 19 | Dave was off with his hernia Ross , Wayne Lindsay we 've not seen for a year , I mean I know things have been difficult for the last year |
| 20 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 21 | There before him stood one of the tallest , thinnest men he had ever seen outside a circus . |
| 22 | THERE is a face that pops up on TV screens that is the most instantly dislikeable I 've ever seen on the tube ; a medium that sets Olympic standards in throwing up instantly dislikeable mugs . |
| 23 | What 's the weirdest thing you 've ever seen in an audience when you 've been onstage ? |
| 24 | The walls were brick lined and the floor covered with dull tiles set in a herringbone pattern that reminded her of a Roman villa she had once seen near the South Coast . |
| 25 | He realized with a shock that they reminded him of steers he had once seen in a railroad siding back home in Richmond , Virginia , crowded uncomprehendingly in trucks bound for the slaughterhouse . |
| 26 | It was like one of the rooms Little Billy had once seen in the Queen 's Dolls ' House at Windsor Castle . |
| 27 | He had also seen into the mind . |
| 28 | Then I bit into the first slice of bread ; home made , plastered thickly with farm butter and topped by a lavish layer of heather honey from the long row of hives I had often seen on the edge of the moor above . |
| 29 | The weather was fine and they were enjoying their walk when they came across the neglected remains of a large house which they had often seen in the distance from the pump-house . |
| 30 | He wrote to his sister , who he had n't seen for a year , as he had been travelling round Europe before joining the Legion . |