Example sentences of "[adv] see a [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Economist sensibly saw an electricity tax as a way of resolving this problem , but , with the Conservative opposition ready to taunt the Government with unfairly raising prices , the prospects of a rational price policy were not good . |
| 2 | When he stood up he could just see a fire engine as if on the high seas diving and heaving towards him . |
| 3 | It 's all done up in steel pins and scaffolding to hold it up , and I once saw a computer thing in a museum showing how it shudders when the trains go over . |
| 4 | Better than ‘ The National Front Disco ’ or whatever by Morrissey — he 's obviously never even seen a soccer ball in his life . |
| 5 | It was as warm as summer , the temperature an amazing 15.5° C. So warm that we had earlier seen a comma butterfly on the wing . |
| 6 | You sometimes see a woman executive in tears . |
| 7 | You may however see a chest drain on a general surgical ward . |
| 8 | MPs at Westminster are increasingly aware of the pervasive impact of Europe on their activities which barely see a week pass without some debate on EC directives . |
| 9 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 10 | ‘ Never seen a slave band like that afore . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have never seen a rain storm like it — it must have lasted more than 30 minutes . |
| 12 | I 've never seen a motor bike with a trailer |
| 13 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 14 | Amaranth , thank God , looked like the sort of woman who had never seen a vacuum cleaner in her life . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never seen a woman fight like that , ’ he began again . |