Example sentences of "[vb past] see [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The low murmur of conversation in the hotel 's sun lounge was like the crashing of waves to Kelly as she entered to see Annie at a corner table . |
| 2 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 3 | Gradually , the Europeans came to see Persia as an ally against the Ottomans . |
| 4 | Americans now came to see Castro as a threat and Cuba as a potential base for Communist activity throughout Latin America . |
| 5 | Occasionally one or other of the girls left the path to go and pick a mushroom that she 'd seen half-concealed behind a root or stone , or pushing through the surface of the pine-needles . |
| 6 | Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes . |
| 7 | This insight was ignored until the new generation of experimentalists began to see heredity as a process transmitting characters through the line of reproductive cells , independently of the adult body . |
| 8 | As Britain concentrated more on integrating the United States into a western defensive system , France began to see integration as a way of increasing its own influence within Europe , especially over the future of Germany . |
| 9 | Terry arrived late on Friday night so on Saturday he went to see Sarah with an invitation to tea from his mother . |
| 10 | Mosely , did you say that you went to see Mosely in a meeting ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At the second appeal Murphy 's conviction was quashed , a new witness coming forward to say that at the time of the murder in Luton he had seen Murphy in a London street . |
| 15 | 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 . |