Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] see a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER the string of contract calamities , which has sent the Serious Fraud Office globetrotting , Sir Derek Alun-Jones and his beleaguered Ferranti team must now see a small chink of light . |
| 2 | AFTER the string of contract calamities , which has sent the Serious Fraud Office globetrotting , Sir Derek Alun-Jones and his beleaguered Ferranti team must now see a small chink of light . |
| 3 | You may not see a great deal of your creative team — many agencies take the quite reasonable view that the creative people should be busy making advertisements , not chatting up clients , and in one or two like Collett Dickinson & Pearce , the creative department holds itself superior and aloof and deals with clients only through its emissaries , the account executives . |
| 4 | Use it regularly and you 'll soon see a dramatic improvement to the neck , chin and lines around the mouth and eyes . |
| 5 | At the end of this part of the presentation we 'll also see a short videotape which erm discusses the experiences of one of customers using this architecture . |
| 6 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 7 | Ruth wandered through the department , studying the dresses on display — and the young ladies behind the counters as well — but she could not see a familiar face . |
| 8 | Straining his eyes , Faisal could just see a tiny cluster of lights where the colonies were rising above the hidden bulk of Africa . |
| 9 | Asik heard a rumbling noise and he could just see a small cloud of dust appearing in the distance . |
| 10 | The moon was low now , and there was not much light , but I could just see a small group of men on horses . |
| 11 | He sensed their relief : the twinkling ‘ brute ’ promised that it would not be unremittingly solemn ; the man could still see a light side . |
| 12 | ‘ I could n't see a damn thing , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ’ I could n't see a fellow mortal suffer , ’ he said with a grin . |
| 14 | And one of the things that is happening and mortified when I first came to this company was I could n't see a straight line through . |
| 15 | I instinctively had a quick look but I could n't see a damned thing . |
| 16 | If the basic principles of wound care are not followed with respect for the natural healing process , even though most patients are young and fit , we could occasionally see a disastrous outcome from a wound . |
| 17 | It is not even possible to determine how far these observed patterns can be ‘ explained ’ in sociological , economic or political terms ( no doubt there are people who would also see a genetic component here as well ) . |
| 18 | " They would n't see a four-leafed clover if they fell over it . " |
| 19 | Er ca n't see a small turnip . |
| 20 | I ca n't see a blinking thing you 're doing |
| 21 | Ca n't see a bleeding thing now sneak round here and listen to our conversation . |
| 22 | I ca n't see a bloody thing . ’ |
| 23 | " I ca n't see a bloody thing ! |
| 24 | Wardrobe are seated round a huge dish of communal sweets on the Green Room table , sewing Freddie Fox 's tail in place , while Bertie Badger , the children 's favourite , complains : ‘ I ca n't see a fucking thing in this head-dress ! ’ |
| 25 | and then he 's , he 's fucking started marching us around the parade square and and we ca n't see a fucking thing inside there , and he said er come out a minute , so I 've blinking gone out and I 've noticed were about fifty yards from the beach |
| 26 | But I mean I , if they want to be nasty they 're going to be nasty , in a sense , and , and if they ca n't see a positive way of using something , but they still want to get it in , then the obvious thing to do is to be nasty about it . |
| 27 | AXA has since ploughed almost $100m more into Equitable Life , which is recovering from heavy losses on its property portfolio , and reckons it will soon see a good return on its investment . |
| 28 | The fact that we had a more open policy over those ten years has actually infiltrated into or irrigated the BBC and ITV , but you will still see a great area of editorial heads , or heads of departments , the equivalents of the commissioning editors , the executive heads , where there are very few women . |
| 29 | Japan will also see a rising number of corporate-bond issues in coming years , which may well serve to put further upward pressure on bond yields regardless of interest-rate developments . |
| 30 | So the normal man in the street wo n't see a great deal until very much nearer the time when it opens next spring . |