Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Share prices began to rise steeply in 1927 as people with money to spare increasingly saw the stock market as a gambling casino rather than as a business centre . |
| 2 | I owe it to him to explain what 's happened between us , to get his permission to go on seeing you . ’ |
| 3 | : Mws The Regal Cinema has certainly seen better days . |
| 4 | And to lead the horse we need to go somewhere ; perhaps around the house , across the lawn , over the concrete path , under the clothesline with flapping socks , past the dogs , and in to an environment of strange things the horse has not seen before . |
| 5 | Fry and Flashman both launched a tirade of abuse against each other following their parting , but now they have shelved their differences and will work together again in a twosome , the like of which football has never seen , or is likely to again . |
| 6 | At £18 million , the Bedworth factory is the largest single green-field plant investment the UK roofing industry has yet seen , and has an annual design capacity of 30 million Rosemary clay plain tiles . |
| 7 | If it goes ahead , the proposed merger of America 's SmithKline Beckman with Britain 's Beecham will be the biggest the pharmaceuticals industry has yet seen , creating a group with annual sales of $9 billion . |
| 8 | It will also be only the second significant merger the industry has yet seen . |
| 9 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
| 10 | Their need for live practice has since seen them support The Paris Angels and Northside , though they admit they 'd be better or suited to a dance crowd . |
| 11 | Mr McCulloh says the shakeout has already seen prices rise from a low of 40 cents a pound for live beef to nearly 90 cents this spring . |
| 12 | For full details and entry forms please see pages 52 and 53 of this issue . |
| 13 | The figure looked back saw Martin and began to move more quickly between the graves and mausoleums . |
| 14 | It is essential that the members of a history department do not see the introduction of National Curriculum history as their entire curriculum . |
| 15 | Young had spent all day here , moseying between the three-room Mayfair hotel suite , talking for 40 minutes at a time to every journalist lined up to see him . |
| 16 | Dot did n't see her again . |
| 17 | The Dutch administration had long seen the need for consular representation in Jedda , the port of Mecca , where the security , health and transport of large numbers of Indonesian pilgrims could be supervised by the Batavian authorities . |
| 18 | It was the most epic winter the West Coast had ever seen . |
| 19 | The Department had long seen the field as part of Ninian for taxation purposes until this break-through . |
| 20 | In particular , the issue of the lack of oral work was brought up again , the argument being made that a particular adviser had not seen enough lessons to make this conclusion . |
| 21 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 22 | Her narrow shoulders and long , slim neck had barely seen the sun , and gleamed white and translucent against the dark fabric ; her small-featured , impassive face was made up to salon standard . |
| 23 | Dramatic examples of this occurred on Clydeside , during the First World War , in the engineering industry , but the printing and bookbinding industry had already seen the breaking down of the labour process into a number of relatively less skilled tasks . |
| 24 | The Publishers Association does not see the damage as terminal , and is planning an amended agreement . |
| 25 | Dot had not seen an egg served up like that before . |
| 26 | He was the most beautiful creature Dot had ever seen , a creation of this city which was the centre of the world . |
| 27 | He felt the government owed him that much at least — and as the DIA had not seen fit to close the account , perhaps Control thought so , too . |
| 28 | Cuts in the defence industry have already seen more than three thousand people lose their jobs at the Dowty Group and Smiths Industries in Gloucestershire over the alst three years . |
| 29 | It 's the same as that place in Australia where they have n't seen rain for seventeen years , I mean there 's children who are grown up now at college have never seen a spot of rain , I 'd hate that I 'd rather have our , sometimes dismal climate . |
| 30 | The court itself will , under this Practice Direction , continue to scrutinise every action set down to see whether it is suitable for transfer . |