Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] see the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | No one in the cars had seen the tottering figure further down the road . |
| 2 | The consultants and registrars undertook to see the X-rays and examine the patient , document appropriate treatment and countersign the request forms during the pilot study and until the training had been completed . |
| 3 | And when agents or casting directors deigned to see the show , and stayed to the end , which was rare , the actors crowded around them afterwards , buying them drinks and roaring with laughter at anything they said . |
| 4 | Several acquaintances and former workmates had seen the television broadcast and wanted to offer their sympathy and advice , which was generally as well-intentioned as it was useless . |
| 5 | But most of all eagles wanted to see the young take flight , and venture away from their parents and explore the world where they , like the adults , must learn to survive the winter . |
| 6 | During it , the workers had seen the managers run the station without their help and knew that they could again run it . |
| 7 | A crowd of farm workers had seen the fire and run into the field to help save the wheat , but they were so confused they did not know what to do . |
| 8 | Hence the interwar years had seen the development of what has been called ‘ a consensus of social responsibility ’ which accepted the necessity of greater State intervention , planning and full employment as major priorities . |
| 9 | The interwar years had seen the introduction of a number of significant measures of social reform , especially those associated with Neville Chamberlain as minister of health . |
| 10 | Mr Bowen said that ambulancemen had seen the two bodies lying on the living room floor . |
| 11 | Some civil servants did see the need for higher prices . |
| 12 | Many influential Englishmen had seen the magnificent accommodation that Napoleon III was providing for his bureaucracy in the New Louvre and the new architecture that was arising in the Paris of the time . |
| 13 | Europeans were concerned at the expansion of American investment into Europe ; Americans began to see the Common Market ( created by France , Germany , Italy and the Benelux states ) , as a trade rival and argued that Europe should pay more for its own defence . |
| 14 | We then cross-tabulated status as thus categorized against whether or not teachers had seen the booklet and found our assumption to be correct . |
| 15 | The leaders wanted to see the Union Committee immediately in Washington . |
| 16 | Members of the opposition group on Darlington borough council were furious when Labour leaders refused to see the South African diplomats last week . |
| 17 | Is n't it more the case that it 's not so much what they 're trying to get away with , it 's just that how what was happening the peasants did see the world that they were in but with the Communist Party and the revolution that the idea is to change the way the peasants see the world and how they view themselves |
| 18 | The old Whig historians tended to see the Revolution as being the climax of the great struggle of the seventeenth century between the absolutist pretensions of the House of Stuarts and the cause of Parliamentary constitutionalism . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the Turks had seen the crash and opened fire with rifles . |
| 20 | The local councils had seen the legal implications of common-law indecency in the writ of mandamus awarded against the Greater London Council for granting a local ‘ X ’ certificate to the film More About the Language of Love . |