Example sentences of "see the [noun sg] rise " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the ticket to see the sun rise . |
| 2 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 3 | Thus it was that a young cosmochelonian of the Steady Gait faction , testing a new telescope with which he hoped to make measurements of the precise albedo of Great A'Tuin 's right eye , was on this eventful evening the first outsider to see the smoke rise hubward from the burning of the oldest city in the world . |
| 4 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 5 | So preoccupied was she thinking about the unseemly position of her raised buttocks , that she did n't see the whip rise to crack across her beleathered fundament . |
| 6 | Holly saw the anger rise , saw the clench of Rudakov 's fists , saw his chair back away on its castors . |
| 7 | He saw the horse rise in the same fraction of a second as the recoil jabbed his cheek . |
| 8 | I half-expected to catch a pulse in the throat , see the chest rise and fall and watch those long , white fingers creep towards me … |