Example sentences of "[vb past] see [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As soon as voters came to see it as a real choice between Labour and the Conservatives , thousands of waverers who had told the polls they were going to vote Labour or Liberal Democrats , clearly decamped . |
2 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
3 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
4 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
5 | Bob Rafelson had been toiling with Nicholson 's friend and associate Carol Eastman on a script for a new film and as it came towards completion , they began to see it as a perfect vehicle for BBS to capitalize on its success with Easy Rider . |
6 | Charles took to Diana that weekend and began seeing her on a regular basis when they returned to London . |
7 | If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition . |
8 | Well , 25 of us went to see it on the 13th of February , and it 's a good show . |
9 | I did see him as a six year old child . |
10 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
11 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
12 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
13 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
14 | He could only assume that , being unaware of his true status as a DIA agent , the DEA and its oversight agency , the FBI , had seen him as a soft target , and framed the passport violation charge as a means of silencing an awkward witness without realizing who he was or the damage they were doing . |
15 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
16 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |
17 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
18 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
19 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
20 | Her limbs were graceful , her whole body proportioned like that of a young goddess ; as for her breasts , an infatuated young man who had seen her in a small part at Robert 's Shield Theatre wrote her a letter quoting the Song of Solomon at length : Asshe threatened to horsewhip him . |
21 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
22 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
23 | A little better ; he had seen her in a few more moods , some higher , some lower . |
24 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
25 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
26 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
27 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |