Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] see the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If [ it ] … does not have the power to raise you up … to that mood where one sees the earthly veils pull away from oneself — then I too want to have nothing more to do with this philosophy . " |
| 2 | Whilst we also believe increasing amounts of renewable energy must be harnessed in future , our long-standing service to landscape protection meant that we saw the environmental costs of doing this perhaps more clearly than others . |
| 3 | New witnesses have told police that they saw the two youths with James in Walton . |
| 4 | ‘ Somebody told me that they saw the Bad Seeds recently and the show was being recorded , and that Blixa had had his volume knob turned down the whole time ! |
| 5 | The company says that it sees the new polymers eventually being used to replace main random access memory as well as rotating secondary store . |
| 6 | No sooner had the women 's liberation movement moved from the sixties to the seventies than it saw the economic conditions for its demands evaporate . |
| 7 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 8 | I did n't realise she was getting married in the church opposite the shop until I saw the life-size versions of the figures appear one morning — including this labrador in a pink dress ! ’ |
| 9 | You were sitting in your seat , pressed back by the acceleration , and you saw the light beams curve . |
| 10 | And you see the two players tangling on the ground here . |
| 11 | Then her vision cleared and she saw the familiar objects , the Aga and the gas stove with the nearby working surfaces , the table of polished oak in the middle of the room with its four elegantly crafted chairs , and at the far end Alice 's office with the walls covered with bookshelves and her desk piled with proofs . |
| 12 | She sat down beside him , instinctively putting her arm out to support him , but he jerked forward with a sharp gasp , and she saw the brown lines of dried blood across the back of his shirt . |
| 13 | And she saw the big staircases leading up to the libraries and the lecture halls . |
| 14 | She sees the similarity of these , although each person feels unique , and she sees the likely outcomes , even though she can not always reveal them . |
| 15 | If you saw the other films , you wo n't need a gay activist to give away the ending , although the spin on the story here is that the hero is a male cop ( Douglas ) , as opposed to the female lawyers and FBI agents of the earlier movies . |
| 16 | We have raised it through the United Nations , and we see the United Nations as the primary focus for encouraging a much wider group of countries to sign the treaty and abide by it . |
| 17 | If they 're in here working all day and everyday and they see the other girls taking exams and they know I 'm going to make them work , quite often they 'll take the exams because there 's no point in not taking them , whereas I think if they were at home they would not have the same incentive . |
| 18 | Then a flicker of movement caught his eye off to one side of the clearing , and he saw the two youngsters were still hovering there uncertainly . |
| 19 | The lights in its eyes faded and he saw the pricked ears descend . |
| 20 | Initially , used the effect to entertain children at the Leukaemia unit in St Bartholomew 's hospital , but when he found that scientists also were taking interest , he founded the Magic Penny Society , partly because he sees the new pennies as an excellent educational toy to excite children 's interest in science . |
| 21 | While I see the little mouldiwarps hang sweeing to the wind |
| 22 | My dad 's he did n't understand before he seen the mini eggs why they 're so dear . |
| 23 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
| 24 | But those gloomy musings ended abruptly when the skim dropped me near the pod was berthed — and when I saw the shadowy figures around it . |
| 25 | I had half-managed to con a colleague in the Press-box into believing that the Brewongle Stand was named after an old left-arm spinner from Parramatta named Bluey Brewongle when I saw the dark-green uniforms emerging from the pavilion , and the emotions crowded in with a sudden impact . |
| 26 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 27 | Do n't confuse them with the metallic Yambuki Ogons , which look decidedly vulgar when you see the two varieties side by side . |
| 28 | This becomes very obvious when you see the many remains on the moor dating from pre-history to more modern times . |
| 29 | Carrie felt sad when she saw the worried looks on their faces as they sat talking quietly , their hands cupped around mugs of steaming hot tea . |
| 30 | Quite unable to stop herself , she too reached out to stroke the satin-softness of his skin , her eyes darkening as she saw the many bruises that came from trying to control the incredibly fast cars that flew so low and hard round the Grand Prix circuits . |