Example sentences of "[vb past] see [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He went into the downstairs room where he had seen Marcus through the window . |
| 32 | Midge had seen Patrick in the crowd . |
| 33 | He had seen service in the Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in China before service on the Royal Yacht during King Edward VII 's reign . |
| 34 | Previous minorities had seen squabbles over the distribution of power , but no young king had ever been deposed . |
| 35 | Previous minorities had seen squabbles over the distribution of power , but no young king had ever been deposed . |
| 36 | Nicholson saw them around Sunset Strip and for a time they were joined by Elvis Presley , who had seen Rebel Without a Cause forty-four times and could speak Dean 's lines word perfect . |
| 37 | One woman was prepared to swear she had seen Sellotape on the back of Pike 's neck . |
| 38 | The domestic medicine of the eighteenth century had seen disease as an imbalance of humours , with the body a system of interrelated organs and parts . |
| 39 | And in the Stop Hinkley Centre , Jill Sutcliffe , an experienced campaigner who had seen Luxulyan from the gantry head , was ready to encourage and advise the uncertain before they took the stage in front of the cold , piercing gazes of the lawyers and the Inspector . |
| 40 | He had seen pictures of the City . |
| 41 | She had seen pictures in the newspaper that Mrs Parvis had delivered every day of men and women who 'd been kept locked up in a camp till the Americans came and found them . |
| 42 | In the affidavit , McDaid said he had seen Clarke at a party in County Donegal on the night in 1977 of the alleged murder attempt in Northern Ireland . |
| 43 | PC Alan Fraser , 33 , told the court that he had seen Sutherland at the scene of the explosion . |
| 44 | The early part of 1992 had seen controversy within the government over policy and the government 's composition . |
| 45 | Cumberland was four months younger than Prince Charles , though , like him , he had seen action at the age of 13 . |
| 46 | At Homestead they were guests of the 482 Tactical Fighter Wing which recently had seen action in the Gulg , and It was here that each was given a certificate making them Honorary F-16 Fighter Pilots . |
| 47 | Christian wanted to see Seb at the farm immediately . |
| 48 | She wanted to see reconstructions of the accident , diagrams of how it might have come about . |
| 49 | He said nothing , just that he wanted to see Duncan in the hall . |
| 50 | Within the ‘ middle class ’ zones of owner-occupation of housing , politically active people tended to see politics as an arena for establishing the broad outlines of policy ; the ‘ details ’ of execution of policy could be left to suitably qualified experts and were not really the business of politics . |