Example sentences of "[verb] see [art] [noun sg] of [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 ‘ And we did n't want to see a team of scriptwriters messing around with our characters .
3 Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do .
4 We tend to see the history of art as an ordered succession of works appreciated for and judged by their conceptual content .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 There is also speculation that the rebels want to see a change of manager .
11 ‘ I expect they want to see a bit of night life , ’ said Sister Dew .
12 Many want to see the return of petrol pump attendants because of the difficulties with self-self service .
13 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 .
14 But if you want to see the beauty of Corsica without worrying about driving over a cliff edge , try The Trembler .
15 Police said other motorists had reported seeing the ghost of Judith Lingham , who died with two friends on nearby Blue Bell Hill .
16 Next morning the sun rose to see a variety of signs hanging , not always squarely , on the battered quarry gate .
17 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 .
18 I am Rudolf Hess , and I have come to see the Duke of Hamilton .
19 We had come to see the tomb of Isidora .
20 One witness described seeing a plume of moke and a ball of fire and then seeing a body on the road .
21 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 .
22 But she certainly had n't expected to see a selection of Penguin Classics .
23 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 .
24 As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film .
25 We normally expect to see a lot of people on a Friday but they 're just not coming through the doors
26 Expect to see a version of Norton 's Backup program — it 's much better than Backup and Restore
27 Rhoda took to table-tapping and seances and reported seeing the ghost of Wendy hovering over her bed at night .
28 Dai Hudd said : ‘ We would have much preferred that this initiative happened before the downturn in defence markets , which has seen a haemorrhage of jobs from the North-West .
29 Compared to previous years 1993 has seen a flurry of activity , with a medley of reports and debates on issues such as the economic impacts of hosting international facilities , returns on research and development spending , and various reviews of government expenditure , including the funding of the Government 's own research facilities ( see related item on Warren Spring , p4 ) .
30 Appearing during a period that has seen a stream of reassessments of the discovery and development of penicillin , Gordon 's work is his fictional version of the same episode — together with some real events and characters .
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