Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dip in the hill , much like those at Sulber Nick and Kirkby Nick , led over the crest by an outcrop and as I walked out from the dip I saw ahead of me Raydale with , to my left , Semer Water and Addlebrough behind it . |
| 2 | When we neared Al Ain I saw once again the Hazhal Bush , those massive waves of red sand hundreds of feet high which had once protected the oasis from marauders . |
| 3 | ‘ The small stone houses I saw up there — are they Inca ruins ? ’ |
| 4 | Between waking and full consciousness I see clearly that I should never have so casually left the inn once I had got there , taking it for granted I could get back quite simply . |
| 5 | Pedalling home , I used to play a game — that with every light I saw on in a house , I would get £1,000 a year . |
| 6 | In 200 acres of fresh plough I saw hardly any earthworms at all . |
| 7 | Even in the dark I saw enough . |
| 8 | See I want to get the same sort of material though as what the other liners , I want to stick the two liners together to make all one great big pond you see right the way across the garden but the other pond might be about two foot deep , this one 's gon na go down |
| 9 | Well I could always ring and ask them to get the container up here earlier on Friday you see so |
| 10 | This little side-play caused Peggy to stop and wonder , and it also gave Lizzie the opportunity to try to bring a smile to her daughter 's face and perhaps ease the tension she saw there . |
| 11 | In the antique mirror with its frame of carved shells she saw both their faces distorted by a defect in the glass ; the brown and green of Stella 's huge luminous eyes smeared like wet paint into the deep clefts between nostrils and mouth ; her own wide brow bulging like that of a hydrocephalic child . |
| 12 | She was immobile , cruelly transfixed , but in the very moment of immobility she saw most clearly a time when such moments need not be . |
| 13 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
| 14 | Just as she reached forward with her car key she saw how the window had been forced and the catch freed to open the door . |
| 15 | With our eyes we see only the eyes of the others there . |
| 16 | In the previous chapter we saw how anthropology was sometimes used by them to show the historical particularity of institutions which under capitalism were represented as eternal . |
| 17 | What about that young shepherd we saw there the other day , what was his name ? ’ |
| 18 | Drawing the sheet up over her shoulders he saw how the bruising on her neck was developing . |
| 19 | The sufferings he saw everywhere piled up more and more tasks and threatened to overwhelm him . |
| 20 | If you balance the filth of the rumours or the sly hints and obnoxious asides of people like Robert and my agent against the decent , if romantic , dignities shown in the preceding paragraph and again in the portrayal of the girl I saw earlier on this night you can surely be left in no doubt as to where the weight of the truth fall . |
| 21 | In the one I have just evoked of those transports with Mala , it is not only the beautiful swooning body of the child I see again , but the whole mysterious and fearful surrounding of the equatorial forest . |
| 22 | Through the grease on the window you see only the house next door . |
| 23 | Perhaps if you do n't have a reflection you see better |
| 24 | Her son , that small boy you see there , happily throwing his crusts at the waterfowl , will shortly afterwards contract some strange but deadly virus , possibly from the Labradors , and will lose the sight of both eyes . |
| 25 | He pushed for most of the equipment you see here . ’ |
| 26 | Cos you can pay it off in ten monthly instalments you see so eight quid a month sort of thing . |
| 27 | Well they would take in er er er they would er er and they would put hoe potatoes you see when that was coming on that time . |
| 28 | Three sort of fairly general Can you , can you see okay ? |
| 29 | In The Use of Poetry we see how by a reworking of his earlier , anthropologically inspired stress on poets as connected to the primitive man , Eliot adapted nineteenth-century views of the poet 's task and brought them into his own later poetry . |
| 30 | The level of organization achieved by the most advanced molluscs , for example the octopus , is the most intricate and sophisticated of any invertebrate : one can not over-estimate the importance of the Mollusca in shaping the patterns of marine communities we see today . |