Example sentences of "[verb] see [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
| 2 | Yeah I thought I 'd seen cloud on top on the hills . |
| 3 | We found the construction very sound and she was comfortable to live aboard , but we would like to see improvement in attention to some interior details . |
| 4 | In Moscow he became a convert to Marxism , having seen Capitalism in action in Europe . |
| 5 | We do see scope for research into resource allocation but believe this ought to be quite different from the common practice of the 1980s of relating census variables to utilisation rates . |
| 6 | Such a dismissive attitude , which fails to see research as part of a professional task , seems to me unhelpful because whenever we make a decision , it is based on assumptions and values . |
| 7 | Radicals wanted to see progress towards humankind as the central theme , but conservatives like Owen , worried about the status of the human soul , preferred more complex patterns of development that allowed for entirely new levels of organization to be introduced from time to time . |
| 8 | Line-up of eight Antonov An-2 biplanes seen recently at Riga Airport , Latvia , all of which have seen service with Aeroflot at some time during their flying careers . |