Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [adv] see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Thorsbury Manor she never saw the inside of the kitchen yet here , it was the centre of family life . |
| 2 | When we look at UK multinational corporations ' direct investment we again see the impact of the break-up of the Commonwealth as an economic bloc : in the early 1960s Commonwealth countries accounted for 60 per cent of the UK 's overseas direct assets , but by 1984 this figure had declined to 32 per cent ( taking account of current and ex-Commonwealth countries ) . |
| 3 | But oh , Nicodemus if you only see him as a teacher you only see the minute part of me ! |
| 4 | There by the light of an adjoining street lamp he clearly saw the figure of a station master or porter wearing a flat-topped regulation hat apparently waiting for a train . |
| 5 | On one occasion he nearly saw the man killed : ‘ The rope , sixty-five yards long , on his being drawn up , having a knot in the middle , was arrested by a clint ( crack ) in the rock , to which , with an eaglet sixteen and a half pounds weight , tied to his back , he had no other resource than that of ascending by his hands , the space something overhanging from the nest to the crack … |
| 6 | The label 's ‘ Shostakovich Film Festival ’ ( ) is music from The Gadfly , Five Days and Five Nights , Hamlet — and , more dubiously , the Tahiti Trot ( which Shostakovich simply orchestrated for a wager after hearing a gramophone record of it — there 's no evidence he ever saw the son , better known as Tea for Two , performed on film or intended that his own version of it should be ) , and the First Piano Concerto ( some of the themes of which were recycled for a Soviet cartoon in 1933 ! ) . |
| 7 | But while Godfrey-Isaacs exposes the wound she also sees the joke . |
| 8 | I told him I was n't screwing Michael , because that was the most important thing to Murray , the only thing he really saw the point of . |
| 9 | Perhaps , when you look at a velvet lawn you actually see the colour which I call ‘ red ’ . |