Example sentences of "[verb] see the [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to see the laurel leaf in the back you know |
| 2 | If you want to see the directory structure of a different drive , simply type : |
| 3 | Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont has affirmed that he wants to see the rate drop to 2% , the Japanese level . |
| 4 | Never one to sit behind a desk if he could help it , he tried to see the battle front for himself , and was severely wounded . |
| 5 | Half-yearly results which are due to be published next week are expected to see the yard return to profitability . |
| 6 | Clinton 's long-time Arkansas-based aide Betsey Wright has seen the alliance work for a dozen years . |
| 7 | H. On the fish docks at Hull a retired trawler skipper , Mr Grant , tells how he has seen the port change in his lifetime . |
| 8 | Now , as the son came to see the marble bust for the last time , court photographers crowded around to capture the poignancy of the son saying goodbye , presumably with a sense of terrible failure , to the father for whom he had never been good enough . |
| 9 | A large crowd came to see the rally start at White Waltham on a cold and windy March 25 last year . |
| 10 | Leading Oxfordshire as ever we 're with the England amateur captain Phil Garner ; Phil , tomorrow 's match — with the weather unsettled , can we expect to see the spin attack of Rupert Evans and Ian Curtis turn the tables again ? |
| 11 | His eyes looked across to Morse 's : ‘ And he said he 'd seen the Torbay Express at Didcot , did n't he ? |
| 12 | I could hardly remember having muffins before , although I 'd seen the muffin man in his white apron , a towel over his arm and a tray of muffins every Sunday afternoon . |
| 13 | It is interesting that half the carers said they would like to see the dementia sufferer in residential care . |
| 14 | Like Mr Sneddon , we would like to see the Government look at the wider picture and to develop a coherent defence policy that addresses all the issues . |
| 15 | But it may still be worth striving to see the Right-Left medal of that contentious era as a whole , its opposite sides complementary as well as antagonistic . |
| 16 | but you must have seen the metal nut in the front ! |
| 17 | Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR ’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position . |
| 18 | Having seen the loan situation from both sides of the fence it is essential that a few rules are followed to keep the arrangement sweet . |
| 19 | We 'll visit the Jewish quarter , count statues of Saints on the famous Charles Bridge and walk up to the Presidential Palace area , stopping to see the wax figurine of the infant Jesus and to rest in the lovely gardens . |
| 20 | Ask to see the Mizuno range of running shoes and our 1991 catalogue at your specialist sports shop . |
| 21 | ‘ Always ask to see the college record with the previous year 's exam results , ’ he advises . |
| 22 | While Julie was still in hospital after Maisie was born , Grant went to see the film Buster in which Julie played Great Train Robber Buster Edward 's wife . |
| 23 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 24 | Some people claimed to have seen the sun turn in the sky , in the same way as it had when the miracle occurred so many years before . |
| 25 | ‘ But I would love to see the ballet performance at the Pantominteatret if there 's time . ’ |
| 26 | I 've seen the video tape of Tom and I coming down the 18th . |
| 27 | Her triumph would have been short-lived if she had seen the smile slip from his face and a look of regret shape his expression ; his quiet eyes were drawn to the window , to the skyline beyond . |
| 28 | After each film was seen subjects had to decide whether they had seen the film section before or not and give a rating of their confidence in their decision . |
| 29 | She was an aristocrat and woman of royal blood , who had seen the throne pass in 518 not to her son ( who had married the Emperor Anastasius 's daughter ) , but to an uneducated provincial , Justin , the illiterate soldier-son of an Illyrian peasant . |
| 30 | Those had been her words , and if she was being exact , they would mean that he had seen the icebound vessel from the air , exactly as Sunderby had seen it . |