Example sentences of "see [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It had cream-washed walls , brown shutters and beyond its rooftop he could see the tip of the Munster spire .
2 You can see the footprints without seeing the fox , ca n't you ?
3 There 's one short answer : 1992 will indeed see the removal of trade barriers between the 12 EC states and the seven in the European Trade Association ( EFTA ) , but nothing happens until 31 December .
4 We have come to realize that many of us will not see the improvements in our quality of life , as this is going to take a long time .
5 The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop .
6 As she obtained her quest , so may I too see The semblance of that which I myself am in quest of .
7 At the centre one can clearly see the bulge of the Milky Way extending above and below the flat disk of the Milky Way , which is reddened by galactic dust in the same way that sunsets are reddened by dust in the atmosphere .
8 It was clear from the reports that he was an insanely jealous man who , for example , ‘ made [ his wife ] walk with her head down so she could n't see the bulge in men 's trousers ’ .
9 Landowners do n't see the public as a problem .
10 you wan na see the spellings in here , you want to leave them in Ton
11 He did not see the tons of scaffolding or concrete blocks , but instead manicured lawns interspersed with narrow paths winding through lush tropical planting .
12 They reckon on a clear day you can see the ruins from O'Connell Street . ’
13 Fielding suggested calling it Good Money in the States and Bad Money in Europe , but I could n't see the percentage in that .
14 look at all the pigeons again do you want to have a bit more ? , nice are n't they ? , sit up , sit up these are juicy are n't they ? must still be very cold outside , can you see the steam from the boiler ?
15 I think that I would see the consequences of the lower figures as being twofold .
16 He liked best the stormy winter evenings when , working late , he could see the lights of shipping prinking the horizon as they made their way down the coast to the Yarmouth lanes , and see the flashing lightships and the beam from Happisburgh Lighthouse , which for generations had warned mariners of the treacherous offshore sands .
17 The water was warm and still and so very clear that they could see the lights of the suspended arc-lamps even before they dipped below the surface of the darkened Aegean .
18 I asked : ‘ Can you really see the lights of this cottage from the machair ? ’
19 Jezrael could still see the lights of sunflowers strung out like mercury on rose satin .
20 She could see the lights of it from the upper windows but never got any nearer .
21 That evening Holmes and I drove across the moor until we could see the lights of the Stapletons ' house in front of us .
22 I fancied that I could see the lights of Porkkala to the south ; west — for the coast bends south along here — but Signe said that it would be too far away .
23 They were on a slight hill on the edge of a little copse , and in the distance she could see the lights of boats on the sea .
24 I can see the lights from a couple of shops at the end of the driveway , but they ai n't open I think — they just got their lights on .
25 Even for you the sun can cause premature ageing , although you might not see the damage until years later .
26 It was clear that both parties were set on a collision course , and I could not see the possibility of an out-and-out win for Mrs Castle .
27 While the consultation paper claims that ‘ the legislation should leave full scope for professional judgement ’ and while it insists that the law will provide a framework , ‘ not a straitjacket ’ , there are many who will see the legislation as the culmination of a strategy to whip teachers into line .
28 I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way .
29 There 's the tennis courts and you can see the beginning of , and the beaches round the corner .
30 He knows there 's a door and he has daylight and can see the river through the metal curtain .
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