Example sentences of "[pron] see [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no poor law infirmary nearer than Waterford , so I took her there , and that was the last I saw of that dreadful day . |
| 2 | one night when Paul came up and I was n't asleep and I saw like this bright light |
| 3 | As for you , my girl , what on earth do you see in this fat porpoise ? " |
| 4 | ‘ Honest , Jin , ’ she called , ‘ I ca n't think what you see in that great lummock . |
| 5 | What I found repulsive has proved riveting for hundreds of thousands of Americans who see in this unbridled narcissism a refreshing naturalism . |
| 6 | But as we saw in that magnificent film The Cruel Sea ( recently re-shown on television ) it was even more nerve-wracking to serve in a slow moving ammunition ship or tanker , bearing a lethal cargo , than to man the depth charges and guns on a naval corvette , which was at least able to defend itself . |
| 7 | If we read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ through with Tate 's commentary at our elbow , we see at any given point what he means : he has a good ear , as we might expect from his own poems ( which are however metrical , as ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ is n't ) . |
| 8 | And we see in this little story something far , far greater than the redemption of Elimelech for Ruth and Naomi we see here a picture of your redemption and of my redemption and those three qualifications , how they are met . |
| 9 | As a Scottish member of the Parliament in London for more than thirty years after its inception in 1707 , he had the opportunity to make direct contrasts between what he saw of improved English farming methods and those still prevailing in his own country . |
| 10 | The two threats to this development which he saw in that late summer of 1923 were Lloyd George and unemployment . |