Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowds had seen some legendary events . |
| 2 | There came a hissing sound and the ducks turned to see a swan cruising towards them . |
| 3 | In spite of their divided , defeated and reactionary Kultur , the Germans came to see themselves as people who needed no emancipation . |
| 4 | In their sales pitch for such stocks , some dealers would make out the recommendation hailed from their own research department , but by coincidence , The Times had seen fit to tip the stock as well . |
| 5 | But subsequent albums , especially Sign of the Times have seen Prince 's cultural schizophrenia implode within individual songs . |
| 6 | Suppose that the authorities wished to see a rise in interest rates in a period when forecasts suggested that there would be no net flow of funds towards the government . |
| 7 | Now imagine the case where the authorities wish to see a reduction in this rate of expansion . |
| 8 | When the cops went to see him again this afternoon , he flatly refused to say why he was there , where he stayed , or anything about the trip . |
| 9 | In an interview with the press he seemed prepared to allow the employers time to see the logic of the situation but added a threat of sanctions to come . |
| 10 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 11 | He went to the door , opened it and looked down the steps expecting to see the burly figure of the constable emerge and climb the steps to meet him , but to John 's surprise there was nobody at all . |
| 12 | One of the Frenchmen glanced to see what it was . |
| 13 | When you 're not out walking around this lovely area of the Borders try seeing it from the back of a horse — the Westertoun Riding Centre will take you out on anything from an hourly ride to a half day trek through the Lammermuir Hills . |
| 14 | I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk . |
| 15 | No one in the cars had seen the tottering figure further down the road . |
| 16 | Well , what it 's all about is that er , the insurers have seen things on the telly etcetera and horrified with the result , |
| 17 | A couple of the heads appeared to see devolution as an additional chore aimed simply at calculating how to allocate the money and making the books balance . |
| 18 | Just before my sister-in-law died , Jack and the kids went to see her . |
| 19 | It may be because the juniors act independently with equal quantities of youthful enthusiasm and historical ignorance that they get themselves into situations that the dinosaurs have seen before . |
| 20 | I am sure that if the gentlemen had seen what they were getting they would have changed their minds . |
| 21 | The Icelanders had seen precious little sun that summer and peeling noses were instant and plentiful . |
| 22 | The superpowers have seen the conflict as a function of their own struggle , and seen regional contestants either as friends or as surrogates of the enemy . |
| 23 | All this I knew before we met one warm summer Sunday , after the brothers had seen my unfinished manuscript . |
| 24 | Already , the Scots have seen Australia at close quarters in last week 's Canberra Tournament , where the Wallabies reached the semi-final , while , earlier in the season , they faced a number of possible participants in the colours of Queensland in Dubai . |
| 25 | Having sealed one hole with foam plastic , one of the electricians decided to see whether there was still any draught coming through . |
| 26 | Apart from a few independents and a handful of dissidents the only candidates among whom the elector can choose will be those that the parties have seen fit to put before him . |
| 27 | If the heads are restricted to general terms they are a useful means of outlining the transaction and identifying the main areas the parties want to see included in the sale agreement . |
| 28 | London 's Docklands over the centuries has seen many ways of life come and go , but one has remained ; that of pests . |
| 29 | Thus , the planners tend to see themselves as pursuing a policy which is , in terms of Central Government legislation , good professional and local government practice . |
| 30 | Even when a budgetary procedure was first reluctantly accepted in 1953 ( under extreme pressure from Self ) , the engineers continued to see their task in technical not financial terms , and the financial controls remained rudimentary in the extreme . |