Example sentences of "and see [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember once dealing with a particularly brutal river scheme , and seeing hanging in the engineers ' porta-cabin , which overlooked the now canalized river , a calendar showing The Haywain . |
| 2 | and seeing England to the brink of victory . |
| 3 | We should distinguish between Ben Jonson 's desire to confirm his authority over his Workes — collecting and seeing texts through the press , attempting to control what was ascribed to him and how these texts were to be viewed , even trying to restrict his readership — and circumstances where such authorial interventions are absent . |
| 4 | He was sixty-four now , but as a young man he had been in the army and seen action on the North-West Frontier . |
| 5 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 6 | ‘ I have to go and see Sybil in the theatre every night . |
| 7 | You can come back and see Josh in the morning — but do n't think you can march in here and wheedle your way back into my heart in half an hour — not this time ! ’ |
| 8 | Paula glanced up and saw cobwebs in the corners , a whole network . |
| 9 | He scrambled over the fallen branch and saw Lee by the gate with the gun . |
| 10 | He happened to glance up and saw Beryl on the landing . |
| 11 | Hazel turned his head and saw Blackberry on the path . |
| 12 | I ca n't be sure what my face looked like when I opened it and saw Maureen on the doorstep , but I imagine it must have had a grin on it from ear to ear . |
| 13 | ‘ We heard the radio and saw photographs of the damage in the papers , ’ Damiani said . |
| 14 | They walked steadily nearer , and saw blood on the deck , looking blackish in the dim light . |
| 15 | The visitor can tour old workings and see demonstrations of the techniques involved particularly slate cutting , in which skilled men using only a hammer and chisel can split blocks of slate into sheets one fortieth of an inch thick . |
| 16 | ‘ As I watch , ’ she wrote , ‘ and it gradually gets later , I can begin to understand about different lights and see colours in the scene which I never before would have imagined … ’ |