Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] see the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 2 | But that 's not where we saw the red squirrel . |
| 3 | If [ it ] … does not have the power to raise you up … to that mood where one sees the earthly veils pull away from oneself — then I too want to have nothing more to do with this philosophy . " |
| 4 | The first he knew of it was a warning call from high above where he saw the angry silhouette of a golden eagle stooping . |
| 5 | Mr Gyles Brandreth , the broadcaster , won in Chester , although he saw the Tory majority cut almost five-fold to 1,101 . |
| 6 | No sooner had the women 's liberation movement moved from the sixties to the seventies than it saw the economic conditions for its demands evaporate . |
| 7 | The ‘ Let ’ rule has stood since 1880 without too much fuss and I think I might get annoyed if I saw the fifth set in a Wimbledon final decided by a serve which simply hit the net and ‘ died ’ on the receiver 's side . |
| 8 | I did n't realise she was getting married in the church opposite the shop until I saw the life-size versions of the figures appear one morning — including this labrador in a pink dress ! ’ |
| 9 | I parked the van in one of the perimeter car parks and walked through the campus buildings reading the graffiti until I saw the amended sign reading Stundent Onion , and one which had n't been vandalized saying simply Bar . |
| 10 | For example , I recently came across the word ‘ homerun ’ and tried for several seconds to read it as ‘ homer-un ’ , until I saw the correct morpheme structure . |
| 11 | If you saw the other films , you wo n't need a gay activist to give away the ending , although the spin on the story here is that the hero is a male cop ( Douglas ) , as opposed to the female lawyers and FBI agents of the earlier movies . |
| 12 | You do n't really need to , but it 's , there usually is n't time to cover it , cos you 've got other things , but it gives you a much better feel for it if you , if you see the other side of the picture all the time . |
| 13 | A country saying goes : Bad luck if you see the new moon through glass . |
| 14 | But if you see the top man around the business you are able to look him in the eye and tell whether you can trust him or not . |
| 15 | Erm , just a short note , if you see the big lot of over there , and er , I think it would have been probably easier trying to describing it . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's spookier than ever in here , ’ Mary whispered ‘ It 's even worse if you see the headless horseman , ’ Billy replied , with a mischievous grin . |
| 17 | ‘ It will improve the standards of Irish rugby but it will require a few more seasons until we see the real value of the hard competitive stuff ’ . |
| 18 | It can come as a shock if one sees the tiny scale of monsters or creatures that appear quite huge on-screen . |
| 19 | And remember , Roger , the thread had been removed , the fuse destroys itself , and people coming in and out of the room , once the bed was on fire , would scarcely think it suspicious even if they saw the odd burn mark on the floor . |
| 20 | that is , until they saw the old man 's face , |
| 21 | A Tory headquarters spokesman denied they disclosed her name to the press , claiming they did not know it until they saw the Independent newspaper on Wednesday . |
| 22 | Where there had been one figure faintly outlined in the frame of the staging there were now two — one large , obviously Jotan , and one much smaller , a child Alexei thought until he saw the muscular build and shortened legs and realised that Jotan had caught a dwarf . |
| 23 | As the sun was rising the next morning , Gabriel waited outside his hut until he saw the young woman riding up the hill . |
| 24 | The place was pretty full , and he hesitated until he saw the empty bench at my table . |
| 25 | Please believe that , at least , ’ she finished brokenly , not caring now if he saw the naked pleading in her eyes . |
| 26 | The offworlder 's eyes were troubled , as if he saw the whole past of his kind moving before him . |
| 27 | Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display . |
| 28 | So Top Of The Pops is now officially The Worst It Has Ever Been , primarily because one sees the eclectic bunch of social stereotypes known as Undercover stiltwalk their way through their hapless cover of ‘ Baker Street ’ and one thinks , ‘ JESUS CHRIST , YOU PEOPLE DO N'T EVEN KNOW EACH OTHER ! ! ! ’ |
| 29 | It was not till we saw the captive aerostat balloon with its ever watching radar that the Americans had hoisted over Grand Bahama to probe for boats or aircraft smuggling drugs , that the Maggot again spoke , and by then he had recaptured all his old insouciance . |
| 30 | He realized that because he saw the new world in the people 's eyes ; and if the populace wanted change , then there could be no return to what had been . |