Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [coord] see [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's go across the top of the hill and see them come out the other end of the tunnel , ’ Peter said to his sisters . |
| 3 | She achieved the crest of the road and saw it spill over , and the village in the bottom of the valley , silent as if drowned a hundred years beneath a lake . |
| 4 | Thus , there is some degree of selfdetermination in the ship case because we are free to shut our eyes , to cross the river and see it move from right to left , free to jump into the water and watch it coming towards us , free to determine the speed with which it passes across our visual field by moving our eyes with or against its movement . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , of course I did — and I can pop down to the church and see you come out , ’ she offered impulsively , which thankfully seemed to satisfy the other girl . |
| 6 | She looked out of the little window above the door and saw him stop on the path . |
| 7 | She 'd seen two men fighting in the street and seen them run past her . |
| 8 | You remember the American astronauts , how they went to the moon and came back totally changed by looking at the earth and seeing it like just any old planet all small and a long way away ? |
| 9 | If they went to the house and saw him move into the door , they 'd turn out the family , look everywhere and he was not to be found . |
| 10 | You say ‘ false pretences ’ — there 's no power to arrest unless you are on the spot and see it happen or you are in immediate pursuit . |