Example sentences of "see his [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such gillie , towards the end of his career , carried out his duties more by instinct than by reason : he had always been shortsighted , but , nearing retirement , he could hardly see his hand in front of his face . |
| 2 | Mr Karimov , one of the more artful of the old-guard Communist Party leaders , sees his style of government as a buffer between growing Muslim fundamentalism and Western-style democracy . |
| 3 | It was also possible that they saw his state of mind as a potential liability , particularly if he got desperate and tried to escape again . |
| 4 | According to Langford , ‘ The traveller who visits [ Birmingham ] once in six months supposes himself well acquainted with her , but he may chance to find a street of houses in the autumn , where he saw his horse at grass in the spring . ’ |
| 5 | FIG claims that Kevin saw his doctor with backache before taking out the policy and despite letters from his doctor , refused to budge until TODAY became involved . |
| 6 | At least this dust was somewhat localized whilst that from machine drills could fill headings and stopes until at times it was impossible for a miner to see his hand in front of his face in the dim candlelight . |
| 7 | Rooney 's large canvasses and works on paper are always memorable and , on reflection , I see his work as part of an English tradition of individual ‘ eccentricity ’ which stretches from Blake to Stanley Spencer , Paul Nash and Carel Weight . |