Example sentences of "[pers pn] see [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 2 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 3 | Agents are notified of performances by the schools , and they also receive hundreds of letters from students inviting them to see particular performances . |
| 4 | So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that . |
| 5 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 6 | I saw outstanding examples of team work with results impressive in their professionalism . |
| 7 | I saw other things after you fainted . ’ |
| 8 | Although Jimmy did not have the height and size of a Stan Smith , who was a top player at the same time , I saw other strengths in Jimmy 's game which I liked as I coached him . |
| 9 | But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’ |
| 10 | It was one of these African leaders who said : ‘ In the war-torn North-East of Rhodesia , I saw white men killed and I saw black men killed . |
| 11 | I saw loud T-shirts , biceps , facial hair . |
| 12 | I saw flood-lit spaces , heard music and felt I was in another world , somewhere in Switzerland . |
| 13 | Two days later I saw dark clouds in the sky , and I knew that a storm was coming . |
| 14 | ‘ They take all sorts of fancy things to trade — brass basins , beads , looking glasses … last time I saw great bales of cotton stuffs , all red and blue and gold . |
| 15 | I saw small wounds , red gashes , high on the cheek bones . |
| 16 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
| 17 | During the decade I worked in the National Health Service , I saw countless martyrs — and a good proportion of them were the staff . |
| 18 | I saw long legs and a big pair of hands and he was standing a long way from the ball , giving himself plenty of room . |
| 19 | During the first few days of the Blitz I had to go to Kings Cross and there I saw whole streams of weary and frightened East Enders pouring through the station , intent only on getting away from the bombing with what bits and pieces of their belongings they had been able to salvage ; with their small children crying and bewildered , and family pets bundled up in rugs or protesting loudly in makeshift cardboard boxes . |
| 20 | ‘ On my way here I saw wild roses in the hedge . |
| 21 | From the far bank , I saw little waste-lands chock-full of old tin baths , rungless ladders , wheel-less bicycles , pecking chickens and , in one , an old sow . |
| 22 | I saw big things that grew out of the ground . |
| 23 | I remember now that I saw neat features , a nose a little hooked , and a very good figure . |
| 24 | It was one of these African leaders who said : ‘ In the war-torn North-East of Rhodesia , I saw white men killed and I saw black men killed . |
| 25 | In my mind 's eye , I see grey-faced men and women going to work on Friday morning . |
| 26 | Maybe , in time , realism may prevail , but I see young players with stars in their eyes , and realism has never been a match for that in any walk of life . |
| 27 | And then of course I see great differences in feminisms in different countries — in first world , third world , whatever , and also principally between third world countries themselves and I think that 's a point we have n't really touched on yet . |
| 28 | I see tired executives in tired systems . |
| 29 | I see other girls here with too much hair . |
| 30 | When I see other children going to school I feel so depressed and disturbed , my girl is indoors all day . |