Example sentences of "[adv] see [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 2 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 3 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 4 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 5 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |