Example sentences of "he [verb] see a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing so , he failed to see a pothole in the driveway , fell off and was injured . |
| 2 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 3 | He has seen a rise in the numbers of wild species in the area , including butterflies and birds snipe , curlew , green plover , skylark , merlin and kestrel . |
| 4 | It is not likely that he has seen a pixie for himself . |
| 5 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
| 6 | He 'd seen a film about it and he could remember it very well . |
| 7 | Another neighbour told the inquest he 'd seen a car with two occupants drive away from the farm just before the barn caught fire . |
| 8 | He had to see a man about a gallery . ’ |
| 9 | The warrior Wottolen protested in vain to Looking Glass that he had seen a vision of disaster at this place . |
| 10 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
| 11 | The deadening sense of obligation with which Coleridge had returned to Bristol was now swiftly transformed , until , as a ‘ neutral spectator ’ ( perhaps Cottle ) told Thomas De Quincey , ‘ if ever in his life he had seen a man under deep fascination , and what he would have called desperately in love , Coleridge , in relation to Miss F , was that man ’ . |
| 12 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 13 | Only recently he had seen a photograph of a Rembrandt , one he did n't know . |
| 14 | Mr Pinder said he had seen a woman in a wheelchair throw away two tickets for an evening performance at the theatre in Newcastle after she was told no-one would be available to help her on her return journey . |
| 15 | Once Dolly and Gertrude had been in the back row of the chorus at the Palladium , and Gertrude had even had a solo spot with a comic song … he had seen a photo of her somewhere as Burlington Bertie … |
| 16 | Mr Roebuck employed the antiquarian draughtsman and architect John Carter to design the castle , probably after he had seen a design for ‘ a Gothic Mansion ’ by the latter , published in the Builder 's Magazine . |
| 17 | Every day on his way to school he had seen a brooch in the jeweller 's window , the price showing on a card beside it . |
| 18 | Dr Gerard fought back , by saying that he had seen a letter from Warburton to the printer , complaining that one half of Scotland 's clergy were fanatics , and the other half were infidels , but Johnson still gainsaid him ; Warburton , he believed , wrote as he spoke — without thinking ; ‘ Sir , the very worst way of being intimate , is by scribbling . ’ |
| 19 | In one place , he said , he had seen a foetus of about eight months old lying spilled on the road beside its dead mother . |
| 20 | He had seen a number of figures dressed in blue , patrolling the streets . |
| 21 | That , quite by chance , he had seen a copy of it on Eleanor 's word-processor . |
| 22 | He had seen a boat with a man in it , not far from the beach . |
| 23 | In Rhodes he had seen a lot of her , right up to her thigh , and Nicholas was right : he was pea-green with envy . |
| 24 | He was looking at Agnes with exactly the expression he would have chosen had he lived to see a woman in his club . |