Example sentences of "we see a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 How often do we see a scene on television where , when some help is about to be given to a seriously ill person , the family members present are asked to wait outside .
2 But they told me that ‘ during your show we saw a flicker of response in his eyes for the very first time ’ . ’
3 On the way back over the lines west we saw a lot of traffic with trains going to Oxford , coal to Didcot power station , 125 's to the West Country and three class 37 's up and down with nowhere to go .
4 ‘ Against Turkey we saw a player of David Platt 's stature putting on a wonderful performance , where he was prepared to work so hard .
5 I remember wandering with Donald somewhere in the East End after we 'd been to the Whitechapel and we saw a group of teddies standing round two middle-aged Indians .
6 One day , soon after our night outside the castle , Princess Flavia and I were riding through the town when we saw a group of people dressed in black going to the church .
7 We saw a group of workers on the right bank working under military supervision .
8 In the last section , we saw an example of turbulence suppression when stabilizing stratification was imposed .
9 Closer to home we see a rise in unemployment and crime figures , drug and alcohol abuse , in addition to higher prices in the shops .
10 The more we look at the behaviour of insects , birds , mammals , and man , the more we see a continuum of complexity rather than any difference in kind that might separate the intellectual Valhalla of our species from the apparently mindless computations of insects .
11 Just before each Geiger counter click we see a flash of light from the illuminated electron .
12 Would n't you agree that in normal day to day language if we see a line of cars going down a road and one of them happens to be a Rolls Royce we would say , that 's the quality car ?
13 The argument is , is that okay these are , that certainly erm we see a number of wars in er nineteenth century Europe .
14 The practical result of this is that when we study the individual child we see a succession of stages of development which from the point of view of the id are just as they should be and — because the id is the oldest , most fundamental and , from the point of view of the instinctual drives which originate it , the most important agency — are just what they should be .
15 Within the first meaning we see a conception of law founded on general rules ; an idea that Dicey had signalled earlier with his references to ‘ rigid legality ’ .
16 In these social security provisions we see a set of values and institutional arrangements which condition the position and experience of those out of work , and which is both premised upon and reinforces a male-dominated notion of unemployment .
17 I think that 's really quite positive , that we see erm , that we see an increase in demand coming about in them areas .
18 Here we see an advertisement for Eyesilmar make up .
19 For otherwise how can we ever be sure whether Beethoven intends for us to see a horde of goblins or a host of elephants ? ’
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