Example sentences of "[adv prt] see a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final touch down saw a convincing win over Chicksands . |
| 2 | He got to his fret and dusting himself down saw a large hole in the door behind him . |
| 3 | The voice startled him and he spun round , looking up to see a young woman standing there . |
| 4 | But you go to the middle of nowhere and Nicky would look up to see a black cloud on the horizon and ask what it was . |
| 5 | She glanced up to see a familiar trim figure strolling languidly out of the entrance to the Members ' Enclosure . |
| 6 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 7 | They both looked up to see a short , wiry little man who had been table-hopping beaming down at them . |
| 8 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |
| 9 | On Thursday we were taken out to see a revolutionary opera , and it was quite an experience , especially as we were sitting in the 2nd row of the stalls , within ear-splitting distance of the gongs and drums which play a large part in the orchestral accompaniment . |
| 10 | The Doctor spun around to see a German officer leaning against a skeletal tree , his Steyr automatic aimed comfortably at the Doctor . |
| 11 | Do these general practitioners not realise that they are about to see a major drop in their incomes ? |
| 12 | In his autobiography Prokofiev admitted that he was ‘ not used to denying himself anything ’ , and he was not about to see a promising career inconvenienced by the Russian Revolution . |
| 13 | Mungo spun round to see a thin , stooped figure in blue dungarees . |