Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] see a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether there had been others , also tucked out of sight , and he tried again to see a connection between the recipients he knew of . |
| 2 | I 'd never seen a weapon like that before — only military rifles . |
| 3 | Presently Anna turned round to see a girl of about six shaking Corrie by the shoulders . |
| 4 | Alerted by an ominous creaking sound coming from near his feet , Dauntless glanced down to see a trapdoor in the floor being opened from beneath . |
| 5 | But anyway , my Dawn , Dawn 's mother went down to see a show in London not so long ago , stayed er , stayed two nights in a hotel , it was o it was only like ninety odd pound for them . |
| 6 | when we down to London last week , we went in to see a friend of ours , she works in the sandwich bar |
| 7 | We went through to see a couple of remarkable rock formations , the Trident and the Judge — no prizes for guessing where they got their names . |
| 8 | Creeping to the windows of the married quarters in which she was still living since her husband 's sudden and secret posting , she looked up to see a mass of twinkling red , green and white lights , as wave after wave of aircraft passed overhead with unceasing regularity , making the earth shake beneath them as they roared southwards to the English Channel . |
| 9 | Suddenly there was this tremendous roar , and we looked up to see a mass of snow and rocks rolling down a gully . |
| 10 | ‘ Wan na dance ? ’ a voice enquired and Sally looked up to see a boy in a velvet-collared jacket , drainpipes and crepe-soled shoes standing in front of her , a lick of greasy hair falling across a face shiny with perspiration . |
| 11 | When the Renault RSO1 1500 cc turbo-charged car failed on lap 17 of the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone , there must have been many people who did not see a future for this power-booster , particularly as it was the turbo-charger that caused the car 's withdrawal from the race . |
| 12 | Although a large ship of the line , she did not see a lot of action during her service . |
| 13 | The implications of this would seem to be that 1975–85 did not see a process of structural change , but simply the latest in a series of chaotic attempts by central actors to use local government as a means of achieving their ends , without any appreciation of the range of different interests reflected in its various policy networks , and which are also linked by various routes to the still disaggregated parts of the centre . |
| 14 | ‘ I sent in a report to the committee and I did n't see a flag at any stage , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Walked all around yesterday lunch time , did n't see a soul in the pla , I saw one , was it you , on the back meadow ? |
| 16 | We did n't see a lot of Father that year because he was in the Government . |
| 17 | Fresh fish was something he did n't see a lot of in Highbury . |
| 18 | We had a wonderful , lazy time and did n't see a tin of baked beans for the whole fortnight . |
| 19 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 20 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 21 | In February the clergy were outlawed ; although Winchelsey 's response was to excommunicate the violators of Clericis Laicos , Edward had already seen a way past this . |
| 22 | I had already seen a couple of ringed seals , several eider duck , many Arctic terns and kittiwakes and a few scruffy immature glaucous gulls before I crept into my bunk to sleep . |
| 23 | Sightless , she smiled thinly and inhumanly ; she who had not seen a smile with which to compare since her girlhood , nor a mirror either . |
| 24 | Ten out of 23 ( 43 per cent ) children and adolescents had not seen a dentist since their last review . |
| 25 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 26 | No human eye had ever seen a hound like this one . |
| 27 | It was the first time that Jehan had ever seen a Sechem at a loss for words . |
| 28 | Neither Ari or Nathan had ever seen a place like it . |
| 29 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
| 30 | Franca had once seen a film of a burial at sea , how the coffin slid with a curious slowness down toward the waves and entered them without a splash . |