Example sentences of "[verb] see [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hitherto , the Government has tended to see parent power as a foil to ‘ vested interests ’ like teachers or local authorities . |
| 4 | And maybe then you would like to see society move towards a situation in which the role of women was recognised in such a way that it was possible for them to leave their babies in creches , would you , or |
| 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 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 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 . |