Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | so I said could Mike go in and do the fencing you see at the side , to keep the dog out |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 7 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The other building you see in the top left here is the Hilton . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ That little fat body we saw in the pub one night ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Now the price they see in the brochure is the price they pay , ’ says Nick Wood , Head of BA 's Outbound Products . |
| 19 | The writings of Donald McGavran do not make clear the relationship he sees between the Church and the Kingdom . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ For the most part the smoke you see from the Ridgery is from fires lit by persons of a different sort . |
| 22 | he 's getting excited too , but do you know is n't that strange he , he came to get a paper you see for the family |
| 23 | Do you remember that erm woman we saw in the park with those two little girls ? |
| 24 | When the goslings hatch , they will recognize the first moving object they see as the creature to follow around for the next few weeks . |
| 25 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 26 | and while he was talking to the woman he saw in the hall an elderly woman , and he said to the woman at the door , is that your mother , she said oh yes she 's with me now , she used to live at Woodbridge . |
| 27 | The description fits the man we saw outside the opera the other night . |
| 28 | It was about a man , who , while eating out with his wife one evening , falls in love with a man he sees in the restaurant . |
| 29 | I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech . |
| 30 | What was the last thing you saw in the cinema ? |