Example sentences of "[vb pp] see [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a sign of his distress that he did n't care what it cost , had n't even looked to see the list of seat prices posted up by the side of the window . |
| 2 | Police said other motorists had reported seeing the ghost of Judith Lingham , who died with two friends on nearby Blue Bell Hill . |
| 3 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 4 | I am Rudolf Hess , and I have come to see the Duke of Hamilton . |
| 5 | The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village . |
| 6 | We had come to see the tomb of Isidora . |
| 7 | But she certainly had n't expected to see a selection of Penguin Classics . |
| 8 | France are the only member of the Five Nations to accept an invitation , although it can be expected to see a number of England 's high-order in the Barbarians side and Irish charm amongst the Irish Wolfhounds . |
| 9 | The Chinese State Circus is on its first National Tour … and around 18000 people are expected to see the show in Cheltenham over the next two weeks : |
| 10 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 11 | I remember researching the notes for the Bach Brandenburg Concerto you played when you brought the Berlin Philharmonic to play in the Sheldonian in Oxford and coming across a passage in the writing of that great American philosopher Susanne Langer , where she defines the competent artist as someone whose mind is trained and predisposed to see every option in relation to others and the whole . |
| 12 | Should these days be unsuitable arrangements can be made to see a counsellor at Jordanstown . |
| 13 | Nora had not needed to see the child in order to understand what had moved John to behave as he did . |
| 14 | First , there may be a view that consultation may do little but depress and demoralise the work-force which is bound to see the implementation of redundancies as a fait accompli . |
| 15 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 16 | I was gratified to see the coverage in May 's issue on musical instruments . |
| 17 | He was gratified to see the shock in Gazzer 's eyes . |
| 18 | " What 's this , playing infant games still ? " he demanded , and was gratified to see the flush of embarrassment in Tristram 's cheek . |
| 19 | Both parents should , if possible , be brought to see the essentiality of relationships which are as smooth as possible if the child is not to be affected . |
| 20 | Struggles about language are long drawn-out : speakers can not always be brought to see the point of innovations , still less the virtue in them . |
| 21 | She looked at Edward and said casually , ‘ Joanna has gone to see a sow at Mr Jarvis 's farm . |
| 22 | In Little Rock , Arkansas , Clinton said he was glad Dubcek had lived to see the emergence of democracy in eastern Europe . |
| 23 | The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co-operatives and credit unions . |
| 24 | As my own confidence in working investigatively has grown I have begun to see the potential of chance events like the appearance of the padlock . |