Example sentences of "see [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst the famous photographs of the Cottingley fairies , taken in 1917 , have been admitted not to be genuine , it is equally clear from the researches of author Joe Cooper that at least one of the girls concerned , Frances Griffiths , did see fairies in Cottingley Glen , as did Geoffrey Hodson . |
| 2 | I 'd often see birds with gut or wire wrapped around their necks or wings , or looking ill because , as I discovered later , they 'd swallowed lead shot which the anglers used to weight their lines . |
| 3 | I can see signs of improvement throughout the club . ’ |
| 4 | We were camped out on a headland and could see groups of birds flying past . |
| 5 | You may see groups of children around the community studying water life or bird watching . |
| 6 | When you got to the station you 'd see groups of theatricals . |
| 7 | If the Duke looks out from his eastern windows , he will see crowds of flames dancing among the tree trunks , a hundred fires and a dozen folk round every fire . ’ |
| 8 | You can see Ben at nursery ca n't you ? |
| 9 | He could see fingers of suspicion approaching nearer every minute . |
| 10 | I can see loads of uses for it . |
| 11 | If you are artistic , you might see patterns of light and colour . |
| 12 | Soon we could see Rona in detail and skirting Gealldruig Mhor , the outlying skerry to the south , we could see by the white-based cliffs that a heavy swell was running . |
| 13 | I can see part of Horse Guards Parade almost see myself standing there the other afternoon , looking up at these windows , still ignorant of what I was looking at . |
| 14 | She could see part of Dewer Street through the half-open gate and it seemed to be deserted . |
| 15 | I can see case by case judgments arising based on the precise nature of the services or their scale as a whole , but those are judgments on the facts rather than the framework for general rule-making . |
| 16 | He could see Kathleen in front of the treatment table , clutching a stitch-cutter like a lifeline , and as the man lunged at her he threw himself forward and grappled with him , falling with him to the floor . |
| 17 | You may see traces of blood when you brush your teeth . |
| 18 | She could see blood on Jack 's cheek and on his arm above the gloves . |
| 19 | If you 've got some dust floating round in the nothing you would see specks of dust . |
| 20 | Nearer the shores , we could see parties of eider ducks with broods of ducklings . |
| 21 | Come on , SHE , show that times really are a-changing and let us see models with curves ! |
| 22 | The toxin may or may not be present in strains of er C diphtheria and this is just an immunological test so I wo wo n't explain it in detail but what you can see is a a strip of er , filter paper which has been bathed in anti-toxin and growth of various different strains of the organism erm which , some of which do produce the toxin you can see lines of precipitation here and some of which do n't produce the toxin . |
| 23 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 24 | If goat meat does catch on , we could see flocks of goats ousting sheep in the farm popularity stakes . |
| 25 | Cos what he does , he puts a tea bag in a cup pours about that much water on takes the tea bag out and tops it right up with water so he can see bottom of cup . |
| 26 | But , in spite of the stirring words , in spite of the cast 's cheers , Charles could see panic in Paul Lexington 's eyes . |
| 27 | Can see advantages in terms of ‘ broadening horizons ’ in theory . |
| 28 | As we shall see management of cases using the LM scale is based on the quantity of medicine the patient takes . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if you go to any computer show , you 'll see hordes of software and hardware manufacturers running Windows and Windows applications . |
| 30 | If we do not do that , shall not we see hordes of people sweeping from eastern Europe into western Europe simply looking for jobs ? |