Example sentences of "[verb] see [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Ashcroft Noble had never forbidden his study to children , and Helen later recalled seeing Edward at the end of a visit still standing by a bookcase and reluctant to leave . |
| 2 | The low murmur of conversation in the hotel 's sun lounge was like the crashing of waves to Kelly as she entered to see Annie at a corner table . |
| 3 | As Gandhi says : ‘ I am endeavouring to see God through the service of humanity , for I know that God is neither in heaven nor down below , but in every one . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He is the best goalscorer I 've ever seen in my time in professional football , and anyone who has seen Liverpool over the years will agree he 's a very special player . ’ |
| 5 | Gradually , the Europeans came to see Persia as an ally against the Ottomans . |
| 6 | Americans now came to see Castro as a threat and Cuba as a potential base for Communist activity throughout Latin America . |
| 7 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 8 | Connections : I 'd seen Nevil at Sedgeley House ; I 'd seen Jo at the Mimosa Club where Nevil was supposed to work , or at least beat up barmen . |
| 9 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 10 | Perdita remembered Sukey being just as deferential to Grace Alderton three years ago , the first time she 'd seen Ricky in the flesh . |
| 11 | When he 'd said he 'd seen Stephen at the funeral she 'd felt afraid of him for a moment . |
| 12 | Of course it will be difficult because at the moment the er the legal minimum is thirty miles an hour in , in any city , but we 'd like to see Oxford as a pilot for a twenty mile an hour speed limit which is no good if you leave the roads as they are . |
| 13 | The press began to see Morrissey as the spokesman for a new generation . |
| 14 | It is only now , almost five years after the fact , that the US press corps and America 's allies are beginning to see Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for the hoax that it is . |
| 15 | One must resist seeing Bakhtin as the US Cavalry , riding in to rescue a threatened humanism from howling poststructuralists . |
| 16 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 17 | It is a long way from the " careership " proposals of the CBI and a long way , too , from the systematic manner in which those parties argue who would wish to see TECs as the regulators of training and as the godfather of the careers service . |
| 18 | Miss Crowley then appealed for help from anyone who may have seen Ashworth in a number of locations around the city last Wednesday evening . |
| 19 | Terry arrived late on Friday night so on Saturday he went to see Sarah with an invitation to tea from his mother . |
| 20 | On 9 October I went to see Macmillan in the nursing home and he talked about the future leadership . |
| 21 | Mosely , did you say that you went to see Mosely in a meeting ? |
| 22 | The Senegalese Armed Forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Mamadou Mansour Seck , had gone to see Taylor about the incident , accompanied by Maj.-Gen. |
| 23 | Sick also suggested that several people claimed to have seen Bush at the Paris meeting , although he admitted that he was not yet convinced of the veracity of this aspect of the affair . |
| 24 | But '76 did see Marley in the US album charts , a hitherto unimaginable feat . |
| 25 | The Americans have begun to see Ukraine as an interloper threatening the post-cold-war world order , above all by its reluctance to ratify nuclear-arms treaties , which might unravel the carefully negotiated global web of arms-control accords . |
| 26 | Oh , well she rang up , I 've seen Christopher in the catalogue |
| 27 | To date , we 've seen Rome from the Air , Venice from the Air , Florence from the Air , with Thames & Hudson releasing Egypt from the Air and Tuscany from the Air . |
| 28 | I 've seen Swindon on the television in Holland . |
| 29 | Half an hour after Rachaela had seen Ruth into the house , Emma 's knock sounded on the door . |
| 30 | Colin Wallace , who had seen Lewis on the day he vanished , was charged with murder . |