Example sentences of "[verb] not see [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week has not seen the end of the row about Europe in the Conservative party , but merely a regrouping of forces for the battle still to come . |
| 2 | She pretended not to see the look of dismay on Martin 's face and continued with her explanation . |
| 3 | He has n't seen a lot of Deborah and Sarah |
| 4 | But the project still has n't seen the light of day . |
| 5 | Although a large ship of the line , she did not see a lot of action during her service . |
| 6 | The implications of this would seem to be that 1975–85 did not see a process of structural change , but simply the latest in a series of chaotic attempts by central actors to use local government as a means of achieving their ends , without any appreciation of the range of different interests reflected in its various policy networks , and which are also linked by various routes to the still disaggregated parts of the centre . |
| 7 | We will be asked why we did not see the importance of the emerging European bloc on our doorstep . |
| 8 | The Feminine Mystique , which dared to put the silent question , did not see the light of day until 1963 , when it sold three million copies , but it was already being written and its audience was waiting . |
| 9 | He could see Prussian soldiers running away in the undergrowth and he felt the fierce exultation of a cavalryman given a helpless enemy to slaughter , but he did not see the batter of guns concealed in the deep shadows at the edge of the wood , nor the Prussian artillery officer who shouted , ‘ Fire ! ’ |
| 10 | He said that he did not see the point of a central control over pay beds which was a relic of the Labour governments of the 1960s . |
| 11 | He did not see the point of it . |
| 12 | Kellett-Bowman ) asked in her characteristically robust way why the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats do not see the urgency of this matter . |
| 13 | The nationalists do not see the emergence of nationalism in this way . |
| 14 | There was a phrase screeched into the microphone by a hoarse-voiced member of Socialist Workers ' Students ' Organization : ‘ The government must be deaf , dumb and blind if they do not see the madness of this war . ’ |
| 15 | It is essential that the members of a history department do not see the introduction of National Curriculum history as their entire curriculum . |
| 16 | Not only do we have the situation in the UK where partial-hearing units ( PHUs — integrated settings ) are using Total Communication ( e.g. Hegarty , Pocklington and Lucas , 1982 ) , but young deaf people do not see the use of BSL as a function of their contact or lack of contact with hearing people . |
| 17 | ‘ We all know about criminal cases and traffic offences , but there are many aspects of the work of the Magistrates Court which do not see the light of day as far as the general public are concerned , for example juvenile and matrimonial cases . |
| 18 | We did n't see a lot of Father that year because he was in the Government . |
| 19 | Fresh fish was something he did n't see a lot of in Highbury . |
| 20 | We had a wonderful , lazy time and did n't see a tin of baked beans for the whole fortnight . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't see the relevance of something that happened a long time ago . |
| 22 | You would n't offer them art if you did n't see the chance of slapping on the cost of paint as an extra . |
| 23 | But I did go to America and so I did n't see the climax of the series , Henry V , until … |
| 24 | He was lying on his back , resting his head in his clasped palms , because his borrowed boots were hurting , and therefore did n't see the look of explosive anger suffusing the Old Stager 's face . |
| 25 | We did n't see the scale of the thing . |
| 26 | She did n't see the grimace of annoyance cross his face at her desertion , but Martin did . |
| 27 | However , I decided to dispense with the hood ; I did n't see the point of hiding my face . |
| 28 | NME news editor Chris Hutchin interviewed Elvis ' manager and found that Colonel Tom Parker had yet to see any of his charge 's films : ‘ I went to see Kid Galahad but the theatre was full an ’ I did n't see the point of taking a seat that could be sold to a paying customer . ’ |
| 29 | I did n't see the start of it . |
| 30 | She was content to let it wash over her , occasionally noticing , like someone with a different first language , the way they laughed at things she did n't see the humour of , were made angry by perfectly innocent-sounding newspaper articles , discussed people she had never heard of as if they were better known than the Royal Family . |