Example sentences of "[vb past] see [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to see the laurel leaf in the back you know |
| 2 | Never one to sit behind a desk if he could help it , he tried to see the battle front for himself , and was severely wounded . |
| 3 | VERY FEW things in life beat seeing a steam locomotive in action . |
| 4 | Now , as the son came to see the marble bust for the last time , court photographers crowded around to capture the poignancy of the son saying goodbye , presumably with a sense of terrible failure , to the father for whom he had never been good enough . |
| 5 | A large crowd came to see the rally start at White Waltham on a cold and windy March 25 last year . |
| 6 | His eyes looked across to Morse 's : ‘ And he said he 'd seen the Torbay Express at Didcot , did n't he ? |
| 7 | I could hardly remember having muffins before , although I 'd seen the muffin man in his white apron , a towel over his arm and a tray of muffins every Sunday afternoon . |
| 8 | While Julie was still in hospital after Maisie was born , Grant went to see the film Buster in which Julie played Great Train Robber Buster Edward 's wife . |
| 9 | One day , she had seen a car screech to a stop and several men overpower a pedestrian and force him into their vehicle ; from a distance she had smelled the smoke of bonfires burning blacklisted books ; she had glimpsed the outline of a human body floating in the dark waters of the canal . |
| 10 | He had seen a sheepdog trial in Cumbria : amazing creatures . |
| 11 | She had seen a woman ride from the dark woods , screaming her grief , her clay-streaked hair streaming ; the woman had ridden around the pyre . |
| 12 | Her triumph would have been short-lived if she had seen the smile slip from his face and a look of regret shape his expression ; his quiet eyes were drawn to the window , to the skyline beyond . |
| 13 | After each film was seen subjects had to decide whether they had seen the film section before or not and give a rating of their confidence in their decision . |
| 14 | She was an aristocrat and woman of royal blood , who had seen the throne pass in 518 not to her son ( who had married the Emperor Anastasius 's daughter ) , but to an uneducated provincial , Justin , the illiterate soldier-son of an Illyrian peasant . |
| 15 | Those had been her words , and if she was being exact , they would mean that he had seen the icebound vessel from the air , exactly as Sunderby had seen it . |
| 16 | In the first place , by 1986 , teachers and other educational staff had seen the purchasing power of their salaries slip to a half or a third of their 1980 value . |