Example sentences of "see [pron] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 2 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 3 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 4 | you know , and so I avoided her , but I would tell her , but if I saw her I would say Jenny I must admit I did see you going in The General but I did n't come out because I was so upset , but I , I wonder what she 's doing , cos she , I heard she 's got her own business , but I ca n't see that . |
| 5 | ‘ We will see what happens in the next 24 hours . |
| 6 | He decided to wait and see what happened in the other rehearsals . |
| 7 | They do not see themselves included in the generic ‘ he ’ . |
| 8 | it was still in the sixties , they call it the swinging sixties , I mean I did n't see anything swinging in the sixties at all , I did n't think it was swinging , but er and they do n't like now the swinging sixties and I think really it was then that er people did er branch out to new ideas . |
| 9 | The Irish selectors were keen to see him play in the inter-pro series in his bid for a place in the Irish side . |
| 10 | PWL 's managing director David Howells entered the debate on Kylie 's future by insisting she had the qualities to see her endure in the same way pop 's Peter Pan Cliff Richard had . |
| 11 | I thought I saw someone moving in the front room . |
| 12 | She had lifted the larger pieces clear when she saw something buried in the grey ash . |
| 13 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 14 | He is at pains to assure us that he will do so We are privileged to share in these Machiavellian plans ( the word ‘ reach ’ has such connotations : ‘ overreach ’ is when the Machiavel attempts too much ) , and we see them fulfilled in the brilliant wooing scene that follows . |
| 15 | We see ( again , particularly in the public sector ) institutions collectively framing their own mission statements , as they seek to define the particular role they see themselves fulfilling in the national system of higher education . |