Example sentences of "see [art] [noun] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie was shocked to see the horror on her aunt 's face . |
| 2 | His eyes flickered open to see the horror on her face . |
| 3 | Only a man as blank as he would have failed to see the hollowness of my enthusiasm . |
| 4 | Richard Cox did not live long enough to see the triumph of his apple , for he died in Colnbrook 20 May 1845 , eight years after his wife Ann . |
| 5 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 6 | At that moment he reappeared in the kitchen doorway and , seeming not to see the censure in her eyes , or not to care , observed with a dry smile , holding aloft his glass of water , ‘ Handy stuff for putting out fires . ’ |
| 7 | Everybody hates a bad leaver but , whereas in the West you can usually close the door on a guest who has finally reached the garden gate , in the islands it is impolite to stop waving and chanting until he is either round a corner and out of sight , or else too distant to be able to see the whites of his eyes . |
| 8 | Gripping the sharp branch with both hands , she worked her way along it until she was close enough to see the whites of his eyes . |
| 9 | He was the match winner at Old Trafford and the selectors should once more be able to see the folly of their ways . |
| 10 | In fact Brian Moore reckoned it would take only twelve days for the administrators to see the error of their ways . |
| 11 | Those who ca n't see a role for the trade unions and the Labour Party need to be given time to see the error of their ways . |
| 12 | As the 1970s progressed we all began to see the error of our ways . |
| 13 | Colin Farrell 's lovely performance had humour-inevitably the kids loved his ‘ Humbugs ! ’ — and not a little pathos as the old skinflint was made to see the error of his ways . |
| 14 | We all knew it would be disastrous ; we foretold that her husband would walk out , that her other children would suffer : we saw she was the only one of the family unit who could n't bear not to see the fruit of her womb , however sour , ripen , drop and live . |
| 15 | I went upstairs to see the bloke in my bed and I thought this is lucky it was three bloody dogs in your garden when I went out the other night . |
| 16 | It helps to listen to what pupils are trying to say in order to see the direction of their thought . |
| 17 | All these require monitoring to see the effects on our client group . |
| 18 | I 've never had any difficulty sleeping and I try to stay awake long enough to see the cancer in my mind 's eye . |
| 19 | She did n't want to see the hurt in his eyes , in case it made her soften and forgive him . |
| 20 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 21 | There is an appearance of debate , but increasingly Eudoxus asks rhetorical questions which allow Irenius to answer at length , and ( hardly surprisingly ) win Eudoxus over to see the sense of his proposals once the true horror of the Irish are recognised . |
| 22 | He believed they might not be able to see the scratches on his face or the vestiges of a black eye that way . |
| 23 | As I prayed for the peace of our souls and for forgiveness for both of us , I was startled to see the wick on his candle fall over and almost go out , while mine remained upright and brightly shining . |
| 24 | He could n't wait to see the look on her face , he could n't wait to start his new life . |
| 25 | He did n't need to see the look on her face . |
| 26 | The bruised genitals were almost worth it just to see the look on his enemy 's face . |
| 27 | I 'm glad I told you now … it 's worth it just to see the look on your face . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't have the slightest desire to see the restitution of my father 's property , ’ he added in that 1968 interview , and ‘ I was always in favour of socialism in the sense of nationalisation of major means of production . ’ |
| 29 | I began to see the nervousness in your eyes whenever I got too close to you , and when I kissed you at the inn I knew that Matilda had lied about one point at least . |
| 30 | Rosemarie had gone to see the film with her mum and dad — and let them know straight away that she was n't impressed with its factual accuracy . |