Example sentences of "[noun prp] to see the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And we then took the Housing Committee down to Lambeth to see the benefits of what they had done . |
2 | After the successful tour of Japan and the trip on the Trans Siberian Express across Russia , stopping off in Moscow to see the May Day Parade , Bowie travelled overland to Paris and met up with Angie . |
3 | She has recently returned from a journey in Romania to see the conditions of at least 1,000 children under the age of one , who had contracted AIDS through injections with dirty needles or contaminated blood . |
4 | The Prince was in Swindon to see the work of local youngsters taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh 's Award Scheme . |
5 | I was in Barwick again on Spring Bank Tuesday to see the maypole raised , but before that was the gala . |
6 | ‘ Tell Rebecque I 'm riding to Brussels to see the Duke . |
7 | On the eve of Whitsunday Joan drove him over to Ely to see the bishop , his first confessor Edward Wynn . |
8 | This increased flexibility in the conceptual framework allows Freud to see the Nirvana principle alone as the principle which seeks the reduction , lowering or elimination of tensions , and the pleasure principle as seeking pleasure and avoiding pain . |
9 | ‘ I took Miss Postlethwaite to see the polo , ’ he explained . |
10 | The report , by Jérôme Dourdin , noted in particular how tiring and discouraging it was for visitors to walk all the way out to the Pavillon de Flore to see the sculptures and then have to hike back again to visit the other collections in the Museum . |
11 | It does seem though , that nothing came of these leases , and during 1749 upon request by Sir William Fleming , one John Lawson ( a Quaker ) sent up Joseph Vipone to see the mines at Coniston and for this Lawson paid him 12s. plus 4s. for a horse for four days . |
12 | Still , I 'm glad I stole Friday and Saturday to see the boys , and after a couple of hours ' sleep , I awoke refreshed and looking forward to the arrival of David Grindrod for lunch . |
13 | Cross took him to Stratford to see the Bard 's work , ‘ but he wanted the comfort of the BBC and the ‘ Carry Ons ’ ' . |
14 | She watched Portia to see the effect Sylvie was having , watched Carlo and Violette . |
15 | One has only to travel by train from the north-east of England to see the land which has been set aside , squeezed between the railway lines , to realise what the farmers are doing . |
16 | ‘ He 's gone into Penzance to see the family . ’ |
17 | It marks the day that the Three Kings arrived in Bethlehem to see the baby Jesus . |
18 | We 're off to Scarborough to see the bakery busy preparing edible Pudsey Bears especially for Children in Need only just over a week away now and Jill Pattenden our woman 's health expert is in we 'll be talking about cervical smear tests and Jill can help you with period problems pregnancy child birth menopause contraception do ring us from eleven . |
19 | I was in the habit of going in there each Sunday with my ( straight ) friend Kenny to see the horror double-bill . |
20 | The football match was abandoned and we all dashed to Gigant Street to see the blaze . |
21 | I was determined to get to the Whitechapel Road to see the George Stubbs Exhibition and not to take a taxi . |
22 | Stop at Wynau to see the rapids , and make a detour to the left , north of Langenthal , to see the former monastery of St Urban , which has a famous baroque church . |
23 | went along in March with a grup of colleagues from ISD to see the Young Vic 's presentation of Arthur Miller 's The Last Yankee : ‘ A psychiatric hospital : two visitors , two patients . |
24 | Were my friends in Cambridge to see the change in me I vow they would not believe it . |
25 | Codron had gone up to Cambridge to see the show and knew then that it would be worth bringing to London . |
26 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
27 | It will open with a visit to Hunterston to see the B Station simulator in action , and for an explanation of its hardware and techniques . |
28 | Peter Stewart was at Gatwick to see the homecoming . |
29 | One visitor had come all the way from Israel to see the birds enjoy their supper : |
30 | Elizabeth 's older brother , Richard , 34 , had come from Somerset to see the place where his ‘ little sister ’ died — and to join in a defiant swim from the murder beach . |