Example sentences of "[verb] see [noun sg] [noun] [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 | 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 | On the contrary , they may like to see farm workers around the village to mark it as being ‘ truly rural ’ . |
| 4 | Moreover the newcomers do like to see farm workers around the village since this serves as a reminder that they do indeed live in a ‘ truly rural ’ village , as opposed to a kind of rustic suburbia . |
| 5 | Are the stewards asking to see membership cards at the turnstiles this year ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On a new house one expects to see shrinkage cracks in the plaster on walls and ceilings , but not on the outside . |
| 8 | Now I 've seen club owners in the movies , and I 've listened to their talk in person , but I 've never heard anyone using a word like muppet before . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By this stage , most of the pupils had seen news footage of the Gulf War at home on television . |
| 12 | I have seen battle fleets in the Black Sea and the great war galleons of the Caspian . |
| 13 | This is evident especially in the food and drinks industries , both of which have seen takeover activity during the 1980s . |