Example sentences of "[verb] see [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
| 2 | When we asked to see the tape on Thursday , the Beeb said it had mysteriously disappeared without authorisation . |
| 3 | ‘ And we did n't want to see a team of scriptwriters messing around with our characters . |
| 4 | Below the photic zone oxygen is consumed by biological activity so immediat from immediately below the photic zone you tend to see a decrease in oxygen with depth reaching a minima somewhere between five hundred and a thousand metres depth |
| 5 | Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do . |
| 6 | We tend to see the history of art as an ordered succession of works appreciated for and judged by their conceptual content . |
| 7 | Because Bem and other gender schema theorists assume that rationality and cognitive unity characterize psychological subjects , they tend to see the break-up of gender schemata as hindered by dominant social relations , but still as fairly straightforward in itself . |
| 8 | Americans , with no colonial history in the Middle East , tend to see the war against Mr Hussein as a police action against an international thug . |
| 9 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 10 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 12 | It was a sign of his distress that he did n't care what it cost , had n't even looked to see the list of seat prices posted up by the side of the window . |
| 13 | There is also speculation that the rebels want to see a change of manager . |
| 14 | ‘ I expect they want to see a bit of night life , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 15 | Let us say , though , that you simply want to see the work in print . |
| 16 | Many want to see the return of petrol pump attendants because of the difficulties with self-self service . |
| 17 | If we want to see the glory of God ( which no man can do in all its unmediated radiance , and live , Exod. 33:20 ) then we must seek it in the person of Jesus . |
| 18 | But if you want to see the beauty of Corsica without worrying about driving over a cliff edge , try The Trembler . |
| 19 | Police said other motorists had reported seeing the ghost of Judith Lingham , who died with two friends on nearby Blue Bell Hill . |
| 20 | Next morning the sun rose to see a variety of signs hanging , not always squarely , on the battered quarry gate . |
| 21 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 22 | I am Rudolf Hess , and I have come to see the Duke of Hamilton . |
| 23 | The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village . |
| 24 | We had come to see the tomb of Isidora . |
| 25 | One witness described seeing a plume of moke and a ball of fire and then seeing a body on the road . |
| 26 | The leadership wants to see the proportion of union voting strength at party conferences reduced from the current 70 per cent — down for the first time this year from the traditional 90 per cent — to an eventual 50 per cent . |
| 27 | What he means by this is that he wants to see the thing in loan committee , damn the company 's leverage , and damn the balance-of-payments problems in the Philippines , period . |
| 28 | But she certainly had n't expected to see a selection of Penguin Classics . |
| 29 | France are the only member of the Five Nations to accept an invitation , although it can be expected to see a number of England 's high-order in the Barbarians side and Irish charm amongst the Irish Wolfhounds . |
| 30 | The Chinese State Circus is on its first National Tour … and around 18000 people are expected to see the show in Cheltenham over the next two weeks : |