Example sentences of "[prep] see [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it was not only the bridge and its impressive Baroque sculptures that Fabia found so memorable , but incidentals such as seeing swans on the river , or the feel of Ven 's hand on her elbow guiding her , or standing with her while she watched artists at work , or a man playing a violin , and hearing a flute being played somewhere while a trinket-seller sold his wares . |
| 2 | The Hercules came over from Lockheed in America , to replace the Hastings which was tired and outdated after seeing action during the war . |
| 3 | After seeing action in the Suez campaign of 1956 , it saw service with 57S in a training role , with the remainder of its service life being spent with 14 Flotille , the last Aeronavale unit to use the type , before being retired in 1964 . |
| 4 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 5 | I was going to miss that magic moment of seeing air under the tyres for the first time . |
| 6 | It encouraged them to form good personal relationships with them instead of seeing children in the mass , differentiated only into those who can and those who wo n't . |
| 7 | The crucial shift is from seeing girls as the problem to seeing science as the problem ; writing of an article she published in 1982 , she says : |
| 8 | In the next chapter I want to show some of the more insidious ways in which modernity stops us from seeing contemporaneity as the territory of the Enemy . |
| 9 | People are excluded from seeing death by the fact that death has become more like an illness that must receive medical attention , rather than the last event in a person 's life that they should be left in peace to deal with in whichever way they choose . |
| 10 | However , in seeing hope beyond the pain of the moment , Skin have lost their greatest hold on us . |
| 11 | However , in seeing hope beyond the pain of the moment , Skin have lost their greatest hold on us . |
| 12 | This , I trust , has no connection with the fecal matter we are used to seeing hanging around the back end of a sheep , but instead refers to the fact they spend most of their weekends dangling from a rope . |
| 13 | The crucial shift is from seeing girls as the problem to seeing science as the problem ; writing of an article she published in 1982 , she says : |
| 14 | As Secretary , make sure in advance that there will be a quorum present by seeing members of the committee individually and getting them to turn up promptly . |
| 15 | More than half ( 61% ) of those who replied had learned of the Library 's exhibitions by seeing posters outside the Library , while other ( 24% and 20% respectively ) had learned of them by seeing advertisements , or by talking to friends . |