Example sentences of "[verb] see [noun prp] [prep] the [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perdita remembered Sukey being just as deferential to Grace Alderton three years ago , the first time she 'd seen Ricky in the flesh . |
| 8 | When he 'd said he 'd seen Stephen at the funeral she 'd felt afraid of him for a moment . |
| 9 | The press began to see Morrissey as the spokesman for a new generation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One must resist seeing Bakhtin as the US Cavalry , riding in to rescue a threatened humanism from howling poststructuralists . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On 9 October I went to see Macmillan in the nursing home and he talked about the future leadership . |
| 15 | The Senegalese Armed Forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Mamadou Mansour Seck , had gone to see Taylor about the incident , accompanied by Maj.-Gen. |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But '76 did see Marley in the US album charts , a hitherto unimaginable feat . |
| 18 | Oh , well she rang up , I 've seen Christopher in the catalogue |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 've seen Swindon on the television in Holland . |
| 21 | Half an hour after Rachaela had seen Ruth into the house , Emma 's knock sounded on the door . |
| 22 | Colin Wallace , who had seen Lewis on the day he vanished , was charged with murder . |
| 23 | He went into the downstairs room where he had seen Marcus through the window . |
| 24 | Midge had seen Patrick in the crowd . |
| 25 | Well , she supposed that figured ; after all , she had seen Luke with the children at the sailing club , again revealing that other side of his nature which did n't extend to her … |
| 26 | PC Alan Fraser , 33 , told the court that he had seen Sutherland at the scene of the explosion . |
| 27 | As Randolph Churchill so eloquently described in The Fight for the Tory Leadership , Macmillan had seen Hailsham on the Monday before the Conference and indicated that in the event of retirement he would support his candidature . |
| 28 | ‘ I had n't even made the connection until a friend mentioned he had seen Tim in the papers with all the Princess Anne business . ’ |
| 29 | Christian wanted to see Seb at the farm immediately . |
| 30 | He said nothing , just that he wanted to see Duncan in the hall . |