Example sentences of "[vb past] see [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 2 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 3 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 5 | One witness described seeing a plume of moke and a ball of fire and then seeing a body on the road . |
| 6 | Over his shoulder I 'd seen a pair of beat coppers walking by . |
| 7 | I 'd seen a couple of caesarian sections , but I 'd never done one or been shown how . |
| 8 | Maybe she 'd seen the looks of fear in her children 's eyes as she talked to them , maybe she 'd heard a rumour that somehow she was to blame . |
| 9 | He 'd seen the walls of reason built against it , brick by brick . |
| 10 | ‘ Four-legged bastards , off to the right , ’ Harper said warningly , and Sharpe turned to see a troop of enemy cavalry trotting towards the Dutch right flank . |
| 11 | At this Unitarian chapel Trevor had opportunities for studying social problems and began to see the relationship between politics and religion . |
| 12 | During the pilot study I saw 160 patients ; only four chose to see a doctor in preference to the ENP . |
| 13 | She was both relieved and angered to see no trace of sympathy in his expression . |
| 14 | Keeping her eyes on Robert as he began to talk to Dawn , she waited to see a change of expression on Dawn 's face , then , suddenly , her view was blotted out by a tall figure handing her a glass of wine . |
| 15 | Suppose that the authorities wished to see a rise in interest rates in a period when forecasts suggested that there would be no net flow of funds towards the government . |
| 16 | Australia had been a whaling country until 1978 when an official enquiry , which was supported by all political parties , concluded that the public wished to see an end to whaling . |
| 17 | When I had first arrived I had seen a couple of press people milling around , but now there seemed to be a whole platoon of them , cameras at the ready . |
| 18 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 19 | The warrior Wottolen protested in vain to Looking Glass that he had seen a vision of disaster at this place . |
| 20 | He had also been talking for ages to Broadman , and Ymor had seen a piece of paper change hands . |
| 21 | The war years had seen a boom in cocoa prices : in 1938 cocoa earned £5½ million for 300 000 long tons ; by 1948 , because of disease , production had fallen to 200 000 tons but earnings had increased to £41 million . |
| 22 | At the end of Chapter 3 it was pointed out that the 1960s had seen a series of reform proposals in British government and that by 1980 most of these had been carried out in some form though the question of devolution had still to be settled . |
| 23 | The sixties had seen a glamorisation of youth , with all its attendant absurdities , and the emergence of the skinhead style represented a counter-revolution . |
| 24 | As the cameras and microphones were trained on him , he told the colonel that HE had seen no evidence of stone-throwing . |
| 25 | They had seen the rise in output from the giants Fender and Gibson have an adverse effect on quality ( in short , they were n't making 'em like they used to ) and Jol and his team were determined to put matters straight . |
| 26 | A Mr. Chapman wrote to Whitbread asking him to return the copy of a report written by Dr. Yeats who had seen the girl on admission . |
| 27 | His babe in arms would be no more responsive to Lloyd George 's leonine appearance than would an accompanying parakeet in a cage and if both , having seen him , were then carried around the National Gallery , it would be equally valid to claim that they had seen the works of art on display as well . |
| 28 | He had seen the look of greed on Bull O'Malley 's face and he smiled to himself in the dark . |
| 29 | It was a return to the Bible by a scribe who had seen the consequences of Hellenization . |
| 30 | They had seen the clouds of exhaust fumes spewed by the Trabants and Wartburgs which had brought escaping East Germans to the West . |