Example sentences of "[vb past] see [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 2 | Little wonder , really , she acknowledged ruefully — she 'd seen women in the building all but swoon at his feet every time he walked down the corridor . |
| 3 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 4 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 5 | Perdita remembered Sukey being just as deferential to Grace Alderton three years ago , the first time she 'd seen Ricky in the flesh . |
| 6 | When he 'd said he 'd seen Stephen at the funeral she 'd felt afraid of him for a moment . |
| 7 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 8 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 9 | The voice startled her out of her reverie and she turned to see Candy in the doorway , her pert features anxious . |
| 10 | But I began to see limitations in the amount I could give . |
| 11 | The press began to see Morrissey as the spokesman for a new generation . |
| 12 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 13 | so Malcolm just went in to see if there 'd be any tickets for the afternoon performance on the off-chance and they were putting on an extra matinee performance so lo and behold those two went to see Phantom of the Opera . |
| 14 | On 9 October I went to see Macmillan in the nursing home and he talked about the future leadership . |
| 15 | Half an hour after Rachaela had seen Ruth into the house , Emma 's knock sounded on the door . |
| 16 | Colin Wallace , who had seen Lewis on the day he vanished , was charged with murder . |
| 17 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 18 | She stood where she had seen Scathach in the story , his face now indistinguishable from the young man with whom she travelled . |
| 19 | He told them that none of the servants had seen Putt since the forest ‘ accident ’ . |
| 20 | From the amount of iron signals and other factors it would soon be possible to determine if the land had seen habitation in the past . |
| 21 | But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free . |
| 22 | He went into the downstairs room where he had seen Marcus through the window . |
| 23 | Midge had seen Patrick in the crowd . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Previous minorities had seen squabbles over the distribution of power , but no young king had ever been deposed . |
| 26 | Previous minorities had seen squabbles over the distribution of power , but no young king had ever been deposed . |
| 27 | One woman was prepared to swear she had seen Sellotape on the back of Pike 's neck . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had seen pictures of the City . |
| 30 | 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 . |