Example sentences of "[verb] see [noun] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Already this year France has seen territory fall to the Brits with Tesco acquiring the 90-store Le Catteau supermarket chain in Northern France . |
2 | Anyone who has seen Machynlleth station from the town side recently must have been enraged at its condition . |
3 | The moderator will normally expect to see documentary evidence of the circumstances cited and samples of the students work at the time of moderating the assignments and/or examination scripts . |
4 | From the lake the coypu man would have seen Rufus sleeping under the umbrella on the terrace and no doubt also seen Mary and probably spoken to her — have practically been assaulted by her . |
5 | On other evenings they were the scene of boxing programmes or wrestling spectaculars where , as Vogue reported , young and titled women went to see blood flow in the latest thrill of erotic chic . |
6 | U2 manager Paul McGuinness told NME : ‘ We fully support the introduction of this ingenious new technology and wish to see U2 material on the new format as soon as possible . ’ |
7 | The discontent was brought into the capital by the arrival in 1932 of some 15 000 unemployed " Veterans " ( i.e. men who had seen army service in the First World War ) . |
8 | A survey of the US top 100 firms by Public Accounting Report showed that almost 25% had seen revenue fall over the past 12 months , with a further 20% reporting growth of less than inflation . |
9 | By this stage , most of the pupils had seen news footage of the Gulf War at home on television . |
10 | This is evident especially in the food and drinks industries , both of which have seen takeover activity during the 1980s . |