Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] see [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 2 | Strange advert I saw in the week it it was erm |
| 3 | Some of the bogs I saw from the train window had been ‘ harvested ’ , and rows of beehive-shaped ‘ peat cocks ’ stood like haycocks , awaiting collection . |
| 4 | so I said could Mike go in and do the fencing you see at the side , to keep the dog out |
| 5 | You had to put them all on in a piece you see with the tube in it and er things became much easier when the wheel base trim came in . |
| 6 | Consequently the car you see in the photograph is powered by one of the neatest engines around — a five -valve per cylinder V12 with no fewer than four turbochargers to make up for its relatively small , 3.5-litre capacity . |
| 7 | The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based . |
| 8 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 9 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 10 | The woman who came in to clean and the old boy who saw to the garden had been instructed to call him ‘ Mr ’ Lewis and he felt very much the heir . |
| 11 | ‘ May we see inside the church ? ’ |
| 12 | For example , when we say ‘ genes are trying to increase their numbers in future gene pools ’ , what we really mean is ‘ those genes that behave in such a way as to increase their numbers in future gene pools tend to be the genes whose effects we see in the world ’ . |
| 13 | It can access private and company bank details , weather information , news , holiday bargains and even , should the user so wish , offer a local phone number for Madame Fifi Le Whiplash ( which explains a lot of those funny adverts you see on the Peripherique these days ) . |
| 14 | The other building you see in the top left here is the Hilton . |
| 15 | Thoreau wrote of an Eternal City of the West , and for long , I groped to understand what he meant by it and I still do not know ; but one evening I saw in the brick red mass of cloud and fire of the sunset what seemed like a great city of the West and I wondered if this was Thoreau 's vision of America . |
| 16 | All the buildings I saw in the complex were well maintained , clean , light and well ventilated . |
| 17 | The scene itself may have been unsatisfactory as a subject , with flat lighting and dull colours combining to produce the sad-looking picture you see on the screen . |
| 18 | ‘ That little fat body we saw in the pub one night ? |
| 19 | President of er has warned that there could be a real and serious civil war and the conflict that there is between Armenian people and Azerbaijan , I 'm not sure that I understand it , but I suppose it has some similarities to so many other conflicts we see around the world , Northern Ireland , er Yugoslavia , just , it goes back hundreds of years and . |
| 20 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 21 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 22 | When she arrived at the bus station she saw on the wall behind her bold , splashy writing in foreign characters , Arabic maybe or Urdu , and small , disordered scribbles around the glass faces of the timetables , which , although an irritation , caused Rita no real pain . |
| 23 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 24 | Because quite often erm we 've our birthday presents have n't we from the stuff we see in the sale after , the Christmas stuff for the girls . |
| 25 | This is the only way out , so the adventurers must head for it , even though they ca n't be sure that the haze and mist they see beyond the archway offers any real hope of release . |
| 26 | ‘ Now the price they see in the brochure is the price they pay , ’ says Nick Wood , Head of BA 's Outbound Products . |
| 27 | The writings of Donald McGavran do not make clear the relationship he sees between the Church and the Kingdom . |
| 28 | Melissa turned out to be a small , jolly woman , maybe a teacher or a social worker , and the only woman I saw in the camp who wore a wedding ring . |
| 29 | The bugs you see at the water surface sound as though they could be Mites , which usually congregate between the surface and the cover glass . |
| 30 | ‘ For the most part the smoke you see from the Ridgery is from fires lit by persons of a different sort . |