Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result they begin to see themselves differently . |
| 2 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 3 | Seated in one of Kanazawa Industrial University library 's viewing booths , they just pick the tape they want to see front the list displayed , punch in its number , then sit back and wait for the programme to start . |
| 4 | Beside it on a table burned a candle , the source of the light they had seen from the garden . |
| 5 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 6 | With a hissing intake of breath , Benny grabbed Petion 's arm , and pointed to the figure they had seen dragged into the open . |
| 7 | On St Valentine 's day ( 14 February ) viewers with sets that can receive the Prestel teletext service will be able to vote on which ending they prefer to see to a Valentine love story . |
| 8 | The pupils are invited to visit galleries and exhibitions and may be asked to produce projects and/or appraisals of the work they have seen . |
| 9 | Grant saw them immediately , traversing the same passage they 'd seen Forster and Lawton follow . |
| 10 | The number of voters citing defence as the main issue they wished to see discussed by the parties rose from 3 per cent at the start of the campaign to only 11 per cent in the third week and then stabilized at that level . |
| 11 | RAF corporal John Williams and his wife Selina had told the court they 'd seen cocks fighting … as they drove past the layby . |
| 12 | This will ease traffic flow and communications since passengers will only have to give the name of person they wish to see , and the taxi driver will not only immediately know the destination , and that of his cousins and his workmates . |
| 13 | Police say it 's the worst assault they 've seen , and they 're asking for information from the criminal underworld . |
| 14 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 15 | Johansson and Rumar ( 1966 ) stopped over 1,000 drivers by the roadside 710m along the road from a road sign placed there by the experimenters and asked the drivers to describe the last road sign they had seen . |
| 16 | Nearly two months had passed since the last crisis in their relationship — the night they had seen Bicycle Thieves — and still neither of them had had the courage to face its implications . |
| 17 | But viewers may get the feeling they 've seen it all before . |
| 18 | Rush said : ‘ Everyone tells me that was the best game they 've seen . |
| 19 | Instead of the evil-looking robber they expected to see , the two ladies found only a pale , thin child , lying peacefully asleep . |
| 20 | Now good that 's a really brilliant point on any graph to put the units in because they give marks for that , when they see your graph they want to see you 've put the units on . |
| 21 | Oh they would just tell you some extraordinary story they 'd seen They 'd heard Seen a ghost or heard a ghost or a something . |
| 22 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 23 | Er when we have erm when you come down for , you know if if if we decide that this is for you , er when you come down for a training course they expect to see a car . |
| 24 | We now had the air crews coming back from low-level sorties over France and Belgium and reporting damage they had seen to docks and military installations , and , much more upsetting , roads thronged with refugees all trying to get away from the zones of fighting . |
| 25 | Nicola 's husband was after all , thought Dexter , the second suspect they had seen that day who had decided to dry-clean the clothes worn at the farewell party . |
| 26 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 27 | Two girls sat down to make a picture together of the river they had seen the previous day . |
| 28 | Prosecution witnesses , brothers Oswyn and Orwel Williams , told the jury they remembered seeing line marks on Paul Jones ' legs . |
| 29 | Startled , Nell remembered the operating theatre they had seen . |
| 30 | Experiments show that when words or letters are presented very briefly , subjects are in fact sometimes able to report what letter or word they have seen but not whether it was upper or lowercase ( Coltheart and Freeman , 1974 ; McClelland , 1976 ; Adams , 1979 ; Friedman , 1980 ) . |