Example sentences of "[pers pn] see [noun prp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must be frightening for them to see Ryan on the bench . |
| 2 | When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally . |
| 3 | I almost dropped the flowers when I saw Lisabeth on the phone in the hallway as I kicked the door shut . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw Melody through the window . |
| 5 | Behind me his body began to beat against the stern of the boat , and as I turned toward him I saw Rachel from the corner of my eye begin to clamber up from her seat and I called out to her to stay sitting and not to stand but she laughed lightly and tossed back her head and I felt Casey behind me clambering into the boat . |
| 6 | I think the first time I saw Day At The Beach they had it written on the wrong strings . |
| 7 | In a police statement Conley , of Park End , said : ‘ I saw Wayne by the fence and I walked over to him . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw Gabriel on the cover of a magazine , and David Mellor was on the cover of something else and I thought , who 's looking funkier ? |
| 9 | ‘ I saw Travis over the weekend , ’ Leith plunged . |
| 10 | Besides I see Tracey at the weekends so we can talk about that ’ , The bit she did not like was writing it up . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you see Bina at the horse show ? |
| 12 | Do you see Madonna in the paper yesterday ? |
| 13 | Did you see Madonna in the paper yesterday , naked ! |
| 14 | And that day , when she saw Gilbert by the river , she stopped him and held out her hand . |
| 15 | When she reached the top of the stairs and turned to descend she saw Simon on the hall phone and hesitated , wondering . |
| 16 | She even imagined she saw Marc in the audience one night , his face just a pale blur beyond the footlights with all the others , but what would the jet-setting Marc Vila be doing in Yorkshire ? |
| 17 | She stopped short when she saw Shelley on the bed and Miguel standing beside her , his fingers playing gently with her hair . |
| 18 | When she saw Mike in the pit — Mike who had helped her dam the slurry lagoon four years before — attaching a cluster to one of a line of cows , when she slapped the flank of that cow , and shut her eyes to inhale the air loaded with the smell of blood-warm milk , udderwash and cow breath , she was utterly content in the conviction of her seamless permanence . |
| 19 | When she saw Hannah in the sequence where she played the tiny organ at Low Birk Hatt , she tried to arrange for her to come to Lartington to try the unique Aeolian pipe organ in the chapel . |
| 20 | You see Madonna in the paper ? |
| 21 | You see Jean on the telly with Neil Kinnock ? |
| 22 | We saw God in the children 's faces and the way in which the mums learned to trust us with their children . |
| 23 | So it could be a few months yet before we see Lawrence in the lightning form that bowled out England Captain Graham Gooch last season … |
| 24 | They see Israel as the root cause of the problems of the whole region , and many believe that this is , in any case , a proxy war fought by the United States on behalf of Israel . |
| 25 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 26 | He sees Jerusalem in the context of the struggle between Syria and Egypt and more generally within the framework of the kingdoms originating from the conquests of Alexander . |
| 27 | Statements by the Iranian government made it clear that it saw ECO as the basis for a future Islamic common market which might ultimately embrace some 300 million people — a quarter of all Muslims — and rival the European Communities in importance . |
| 28 | It saw Jesus as the victim on the cross who in submitting to Satan became his victor . |
| 29 | If he saw Doyle in the pub he 'd slide out of buying him a drink . |
| 30 | He saw Emmie over the hedge and called out to her . |