Example sentences of "[adv] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alerted by a slight sound , she again opened her eyes , turning her head slowly to see a cup and saucer being placed on a nearby small table . |
| 2 | when we down to London last week , we went in to see a friend of ours , she works in the sandwich bar |
| 3 | To give the walk some point , Will Simpson had decided to call in to see a patient whose son farmed the fields beyond the Heights . |
| 4 | My sons have been booked in to see a speech therapist . |
| 5 | One day when he was extremely unrealistic and euphoric , I really became upset ; it was like going in to see a stranger — he was receiving a high dosage of morphine at that time — and I called his pulmonary doctor and requested that something be done or an explanation be given . |
| 6 | He got her in to see an agent who was a friend of Jock Lennox , and he had arranged an appointment with a producer who was sending out a show with the American Ragtime Octette and Cissie Loftus the impressionist , as well as The Ramblers , a famous juggling act , and an Australian called Pansy Montague , who toured as La Milo , an exponent of the art of living statues . |
| 7 | Just enough to see a nose and one eye . |
| 8 | In connection with the Queen of the Night and her birds , I was lucky enough to see an example of such interaction recently when I watched a woman falconer give a demonstration of her art . |
| 9 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 10 | ‘ Ibrox , my party wishes merely to see an end to conflict . |
| 11 | She sat with bowed head for a moment then looked directly at him and replied , ‘ It is only my child , sir , the wanting of my child , and suddenly seeing a way to get him , and then it being taken away . |
| 12 | His heart beating painfully , Jack wheeled round , only to see a man and a woman emerge , looking dishevelled and frightened . |
| 13 | Being on the 46th floor , I threw the curtains wide open to enjoy this unusual event , took a shower and casually sauntered back into my room stark naked — only to see a man outside my window ! |
| 14 | SHOCKED David Salt spent £700 on a dream garden — only to see a 20ft crater open up and swallow his flowers and lawn . |
| 15 | ‘ We are selling publishers ’ books at list prices , to the core market , and thus ensuring that publishers are able to recover their origination , only to see a mass of examples of the same book on offer elsewhere at cheaper prices . |
| 16 | The authorities had eventually allowed him in , but only to see a spokesman . |
| 17 | He turned angrily to remonstrate with Tommy , only to see a rat the size of a rabbit lying between his legs . |
| 18 | Alerted by an ominous creaking sound coming from near his feet , Dauntless glanced down to see a trapdoor in the floor being opened from beneath . |
| 19 | But anyway , my Dawn , Dawn 's mother went down to see a show in London not so long ago , stayed er , stayed two nights in a hotel , it was o it was only like ninety odd pound for them . |
| 20 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 21 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 22 | ‘ These include four species of cobra but I have only seen a cobra twice , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 24 | If you 've only seen a De Lorean car in the Back to the Future films then drop in at the old plant in Dunmurry on Saturday afternoon ( 3.30 ) where the dream machine was produced . |
| 25 | And a nice clean straight like you , you know , young , only seen a needle down the doctor 's — well . |
| 26 | I 've only seen an ice cream van about four times since I 've been here . |
| 27 | I 've only seen an illustration . |
| 28 | Alice looked all round the table , but she could only see a teapot . |
| 29 | I can only see a daddy and a little girl on a roundabout . |
| 30 | and could only see a turn-up |