Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just one comment Chairman I see the |
| 2 | Er and of course I seen the present managers are , are th the one you know only just lives down the road here he 's recently retired . |
| 3 | Beneath the shirt I saw the outline of her breasts . |
| 4 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
| 5 | When I examined Southgate 's horse I saw the spur marks . |
| 6 | On the southern side she saw the mandarin silks of the beginnings of civilisation and the huge courage of the Long March ; and on the other , to the north , the eternal silence of the greatest desolation . |
| 7 | Not that hooligan we saw the other day the one messing about in the dodgems . ’ |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm . |
| 9 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 10 | Cutting across country in the morning light he saw the Japanese transports moored peacefully in Dili harbour . |
| 11 | Then he pushed him towards the light , and in the light he saw the face of a boy of twenty . |
| 12 | My master said they had a splendid library , as well they might , but the only work I saw the nuns do was clever and intricate embroidery of curtains , cloths and napkins . |
| 13 | From the window I saw the flats opposite , their even lines making them look like children 's drawings . |
| 14 | In one split second I see the brown topcoat and his jogger gape at us . |
| 15 | When he plugged in — Sonic The Hedgehog I saw the fantastic graphics and nearly fainted . |
| 16 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 17 | I stop at my usual vantage point and even before I have switched off the engine I see the otter . |
| 18 | In the sand you see the iron although it broke it more but this plough he 'd kept the thing fairly together . |
| 19 | Framed in the narrow window she saw the landscape , lit and brilliant as the background of a painting . |
| 20 | As the Dwarfs from Karaz a Karak marched south they saw the rising plumes of smoke in front of them . |
| 21 | Out of the front window he saw the ‘ For Sale ’ sign , the white paint of the board showing up in the light that shone from between the curtains of Tom 's cottage . |
| 22 | Through the carved window he saw the wet branches of the evergreens , darker on the dark . |
| 23 | But looking out of the window he saw the hills again . |
| 24 | Reaching the bottom he saw the Emperor Frederick with a long beard , sitting on a golden throne . |
| 25 | His motion dashed the tears from his eyes , and as he came to a halt he saw the visitor plainly . |
| 26 | In horror she saw the guerrilla 's hand go to the knife at his belt . |
| 27 | I 'll have , have to do that later for you because you wo n't be doing it then , this lesson next year , and if your pots do n't go up in the kiln I will be glazing for you , so of course you see the colour and everything we do n't have the time to do that , it 's a shame , well actually they 'll look very smart just with the glaze on , but I 'll try and get that done for you , okay , can you put your hand up if there is |
| 28 | But whoever it was , they were determined to catch Artemis , for when Artemis stole another look she saw the horse behind was really stretching out . |
| 29 | For a fleeting moment I saw the face of a young boy , about 15 years old , with a fresh face and golden curls . |
| 30 | For a fleeting moment I saw the face of a young boy , about 15 years old , with a fresh face and golden curls . ’ |