Example sentences of "[adv] see [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 2 | Stuart was leaning over backwards to see Oliver 's point of view . |
| 3 | Next year could also see Unit 's graduation from the third tier to the main market . |
| 4 | The American journalist , Bernard Nossiter , even saw Britain 's decline of manufacturing output as a sign of advance and of maturity , since the British , civilized and civic-minded as they were , were proclaiming the need for more leisure and less regimented ways of living . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ said Pascoe enigmatically , then seeing Jenny 's look of enquiry , he relented and added , ‘ I think there may be a footprint . ’ |
| 6 | She leaned forward to see Matilda 's reaction to Guy 's brutal logic just as he turned his head slightly in her direction , as though he sensed her watching him . |
| 7 | The maid , however , was noncommittal , not wishing to cross her mistress and yet seeing Stephen 's point of view . |
| 8 | Back in his own home , it seemed incredible to George that he had actually seen Tamar 's attacker at Thorsbury , and yet he was certain that the groom was the same man . |