Example sentences of "see [pron] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 2 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 3 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 4 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 5 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 6 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And a holiday abroad each year to make up for not seeing you much over the past while ! ’ |
| 9 | Another chapter today would see me nicely into the second half of my story , and this evening I would talk to Crispin and get things sorted out with him . |
| 10 | Erm , sorry , when I said I wo n't see you next week , that means I wo n't see you now until the fourth year . |
| 11 | And , by zinc galvanizing all the bare metal , Audi is able to offer a 10 year guarantee against rusting , which should see you nicely into the next millennium . |
| 12 | On the MS-DOS side of the connectivity business , Rabbit sees itself up against the big names — IBM , Novell and DCA . |
| 13 | A return to five furlongs should see him back on the winning path . |
| 14 | ‘ You started this , Brother , so we 'll see it through to the bitter end . |
| 15 | You can see this in the adventure novels of Alastair Maclean ; you can see it equally in the intellectual novels of Iris Murdoch . |
| 16 | I could see it over by the wooden boards that had been nailed across Quigley 's windows . |
| 17 | You can see it only on the giant screen at the National Museum of Photography , Film and Television , Bradford . |
| 18 | With the addition of our new process area we now have a plant which will see us well into the next decade . |
| 19 | If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route . |
| 20 | ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’ |
| 21 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 22 | There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys . |
| 23 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 24 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 25 | There was no sign of tenderness in the man who tossed her up into the saddle the next morning , but , seeing him now in the full light of day , Isabel was forced to concede that he was still handsome . |
| 26 | Folly vaguely remembered seeing her somewhere in the outer office when she had visited before , and turned to her gratefully . |
| 27 | We met Audrey and Margaret on the way , and we saw them again at the next stop , Motueka , 60 miles to the north . |
| 28 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 29 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 30 | She got the doctor and his wife into their coats and saw them out of the front door . |