Example sentences of "see [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A TEENAGE mother banned from seeing her six-month-old baby girl after being charged with ill treating her in a cot at a London hospital ward , can now visit her under social services supervision . |
| 2 | The green alliance of the Green party and the Generation Ecologie , which only a couple of months ago was being credited with nearly 20 per cent of the vote , suffered a severe disappointment in seeing its projected score drop to 8.5 per cent — five less than its vote in last year 's regional elections . |
| 3 | It is more than likely that Cis had never seen her young brother/son act in any formal sense at this time . |
| 4 | I have seen our old matriarch walk between two younger antagonists and break up a fight with a snarl , even though she was aged and barely able to walk . |
| 5 | This month sees their first CD album on their own R&M label ; a cassette is on sale now . |
| 6 | But Roddick sees her expanding retailing network as a means to spread her own deep beliefs about the environment and Third World issues , educating both employees and customers . |
| 7 | The Clydesdale Bank £20 note bears the head of the physicist Lord Kelvin , and on the reverse side one sees his nineteenth-century lecture theatre in the University of Glasgow . |
| 8 | THE DROWNING man , it is claimed , sees his whole life flash before him . |
| 9 | He says ; I saw my first Fairport show in 1970 and I never forgot it . |
| 10 | The capital growth and income trust , which is run from Edinburgh by Baillie Gifford , invests internationally in smaller companies and saw its pre-tax revenue drop from £313,946 six months before to £288,562 , while earnings per share fell from 4.14p to 4p . |
| 11 | But the group saw its gross margin rise from 49 p.c. to almost 52 p.c. and says it has seen a ‘ healthy improvement ’ in new year trading . |
| 12 | The main parties to the left of the SDP , running under the banner of the Left-Wing Alliance formed in April 1990 [ see p. 37506 ] , saw their combined vote fall by 3.1 per cent but retained 19 of their 20 seats . |
| 13 | Milsome 's father , Arthur , saw his first Arsenal match in 1945 . |
| 14 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 15 | Suddenly he saw his hated enemy reach behind him . |
| 16 | They knew he was n't articulate enough to say ; liked to see his thin face suffuse with frustration , enjoyed his suffering on their behalf . |
| 17 | After seeing his 1853 bill side-tracked by a Royal Commission , Lord St Leonards was moving the second reading of another debtor and creditor bill in the House of Lords in 1859 , but once again many of their lordships found it all too complicated , and wanted it examined by a select committee . |
| 18 | Of the many Africans who learn to read and write , a large number , perhaps the majority , rarely see their own mother tongue in print . |
| 19 | The opera festival , which takes place in July and August is highly recommended ; see your local Enterprise Representative for information . |