Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] see the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | So if you see the label that 's what you should get . |
2 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
3 | It sounded well enough until they saw the size of the rations . |
4 | Bridges ( 1979 ) certainly does n't think so because he sees the curriculum as a selection from culture requiring value judgements over which teachers have no monopoly of wisdom . |
5 | ‘ It 's only since we saw the video that we found out whose boot it was . |
6 | Annie laughed aloud as she saw the look on Billy 's face . |
7 | They were all crossing together when they saw the skid , the boy on the motorbike , out of control and ploughing towards the sedate black Morris Minor . |
8 | Only when she saw the outline of a man 's head in a peaked cap sitting in the driver 's seat was the mystery explained . |
9 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
10 | So when you see the forecast figures and , and , in , in the , the , that 's what our plan is . |
11 | ‘ He said , ‘ I was dying for a pint so when I saw the pub I decided to land and come in . ’ ‘ |
12 | It would be best if you saw the boy yourself . ’ |
13 | Wait outside until you see the girl who lives there , the cripple girl . |
14 | Merrill glanced away lest he see the accusation in her eyes . |
15 | She should have said , I do n't know where you got these things , but please put them away before somebody sees the sun glinting off them and assumes it 's me spying on the guests . |
16 | Luther looked deep into the boy 's eyes and smiled wickedly when he saw the truth lurking there . |
17 | Her voice died away when she saw the strain on Jenna 's face and she came round the bed , her eyes racing over Jenna 's pale face . |
18 | Peeping up at him , she just as quickly looked away when she saw the devilry in his eyes . |
19 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
20 | Anyway when I saw the fire |
21 | She checked only momentarily when she saw the chaos in the room . |
22 | She mopped herself up , then eyed him uncertainly as she saw the set , cold expression on his face . |
23 | They took ship as soon as they saw the way things were going in 1934 . |
24 | As soon as they saw the car , which had a police sign on the roof , they quietened down . |
25 | This is important when the fish are in the swim and perhaps ready to bite as soon as they see the bait sinking through the water . |
26 | ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’ |
27 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
28 | She also left the book undisturbed but felt , as soon as she saw the title , a further fellow feeling with S. Kettering . |
29 | She just went haywire as soon as she saw the instructor . |
30 | She stopped as soon as she saw the effect of her words . |