Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanna grinned back , her serene beauty sparkling into the quick , unexpected mischief that Isabel had seen in fitzAlan . |
| 2 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 3 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 4 | He was told that Woolley wanted to see him right away . |
| 5 | I did try and find the , the microphone that went with daddy 's old tape recorder , the one that David broke to see if that would fit on . |
| 6 | Marie had thought about telling him the truth : that Bella had seen him and the police would soon be after him . |
| 7 | Even recently a white South African registered surprise on hearing that Nelson Mandela could speak , 40 years on , with fresh enthusiasm of a Neil Harvey innings , 151 at Kingsmead , Durban in 1951 , that Mandela had seen the young Harvey score . |
| 8 | ‘ Only that Frank has seen him a number of times coming out of a special house down there . |
| 9 | He 'd been exactly the same once before when he 'd found out that Pete had seen Last Tango in Paris ( ‘ Yeah , but what did they actually do ? ’ ) and now , as then , Pete had taken care to fine-tune Ted 's frustration to the point of obsession . |
| 10 | In Robert Dole , the top Republican in the senate , he faces the most effective leader of the opposition that Washington has seen for decades . |
| 11 | He knew that Martin had seen him and yet he had taken no notice of him . |
| 12 | He feared that Robinson had seen through him and played with him . |
| 13 | Pointy-Beard simply said that Sunil wanted to see me when he 'd finished eating and we were going to meet him at Shazam 's and did I know it . |
| 14 | The recent box-office calamity of Marjorie Morningstar , was another example ; the big-budget Warner Brothers adaptation of Herman Wouk 's best-selling novel , starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly , ended up so dismally after such a huge build-up that Natalie began seeing her analyst at lunchtimes as well . |
| 15 | They threaded their way through the vegetable market , full of dull early spring vegetables instead of the mounds of tomatoes and aubergines and peppers and artichokes that Julia longed to see and buy , and reached the Tribunale di Giustizia a few minutes later . |
| 16 | Her face had a close , guarded look — one that Lily had seen already on Robert . |
| 17 | The Italians had brought with them a battalion of tanks , a company of armoured cars and another of motorized machine guns , all designed for the kind of fast-moving warfare that Mussolini wanted to see in Spain and which was inimical to Franco 's preferred modus operandi . |
| 18 | He explained away the list of things that Waddell had seen in the Ross 's house as having been published at the trial or in the newspapers , which was not the case . |
| 19 | He had seen things that Oliver longed to see . |
| 20 | Since , at that particular moment , Eleanor was the very last person that Jessamy wanted to see , the feeling was mutual . |
| 21 | This is particularly marked in The Mysteries of Udolpho , for when Mrs Radcliffe describes the cottage in which her heroine has taken shelter , she writes of this ‘ bower of sweets ’ as though the reader stood outside it , although Emily , whose view he shares , is indoors , at her bedroom window : ‘ The cottage , which was shaded by the woods from the intenser rays of the sun , and was open only to his evening light , was covered entirely with vines , fig-trees , and jessamine whose flowers surpassed in size and fragrance any that Emily had seen . ’ |
| 22 | There was a quietness about her that Mary had seen before when people were losing their hold on life . |
| 23 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
| 24 | It is now travel business legend that Airtours had seen ILG 's demise coming and despatched staff to the most popular resorts in February to talk to hotel owners about the possibility of booking spare space if any other tour operator found itself unable to fulfil its obligations . |
| 25 | As the launch and the bows of the sinking yacht were now almost level it took only a few seconds to transfer the six survivors — another had joined the group of five that Talbot had seen — aboard the launch . |
| 26 | The scheme bore the unmistakable stamp of Kurt Hahn and his trust system that Charles had seen in operation at Gordonstoun . |
| 27 | DeVore smiled , pleased that Lehmann had seen it . |
| 28 | ‘ What I want to know is what 's so interesting on the other side of that wall that Madonna has to see it before putting her knickers on ? ’ |
| 29 | So was it too much to believe that it was Kemp that Stratton had seen — about five o'clock , had n't he said ? |
| 30 | Then the sun came through , and light brightened , and the standing dream that Wolski had seen seemed to drift away into memory and he found himself staring into the eyes of the old female golden eagle . |