Example sentences of "[adv] see [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fowler and Andy Lloyd made a good start , Gower chipped in well , and the rest of the batsmen did enough to see England home by three wickets . |
| 2 | As soon as I got to the wire I spotted a gap and ran through it , only to see Private Prescott overtake me as he charged on towards the enemy lines . |
| 3 | But in 1987 , Labour also won the campaign — only to see Mrs Thatcher back in Downing Street with a majority of 101 . |
| 4 | At one end fast-medium bowler Hill-Wood vigorously shone the ball on his trousers , only to see Ian Peebles at the other end undo his work by rubbing the shine away in the dust . |
| 5 | WEST Ham 's Steve Potts opened the scoring against Ipswich in Frank Yallop 's testimonial yesterday with a 63rd minute header only to see Neil Thompson equalise from a penalty . |
| 6 | ‘ Only to see Eleanor Thorne . |
| 7 | Instead of only seeing Angelica Kauffman 's history paintings as part of a neoclassical revival and a feature of 18th century history painting , might a psychoanalytical-cum-anthropological approach allow us to see a pattern of latent meanings , around themes of abandonment , grief , mourning or see her dramatisation of women 's complex relations to emotional and civic loyalties ? |
| 8 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 9 | He suddenly saw Annabel passing in the street outside . |
| 10 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
| 11 | Hello , Just how does anyone who 's old enough to remember compare the two I only saw Gary Sprake play twice ( famous so I ca n't really remember how bad he was . |
| 12 | He only saw Emily Groundwater once again in his life , and that was at a soirée at the Heathertons ' , to which he was invited because the Professor had told the chaplain of Paul 's impending journey to Oxford . |
| 13 | I did n't watch it , only saw Janet Jackson |
| 14 | ‘ I opened his eyes all right and now those eyes only see Maria Luisa . ’ |
| 15 | It was all too obvious what her plot was and she went straight away to see Mrs Browning , resolved to ask outright if Ferdinando was to go to France and if so to plead her case . |
| 16 | She took one last glance at the window above to see Maria Luisa with her palms flat against the window-pane , desperately , mutely pleading with Ruth for help with eyes so full of pain that Ruth 's nerves nearly snapped . |
| 17 | ‘ And people will come just to see Lorna Lewis at the top again , ’ she said . |
| 18 | But in spite of the changes , Sir George insisted that Constantinople was still a fascinating city , superbly sited , full of interest , and worth visiting just to see Hagia Sophia . |
| 19 | They knew that a number of passengers had joined the cruise just to see St Kilda , and that they would almost be made to feel responsible for any disappointment . |
| 20 | Frontline bidders were Quelle and Kingfisher — which had the edge of being a domestic buyer in a market that had already seen Otto Versand of Germany buy Grattan and the French Redoute group carry off Empire Stores . |
| 21 | say ooh I just seen Michael passing , I 'll have |
| 22 | I think I 'd sooner see Angela Rippon , Those Were The Days , do n't you ? , on Sky |
| 23 | We could just see Lake Zwai and beyond it a wall of mountains on the far side of the Rift Valley . |
| 24 | Out of the corner of his eye he could just see Dan Ashton , the road-gang foreman and union representative . |
| 25 | But Mr Major will now just see Mr Bush to bid him a personal farewell from office . |
| 26 | He no longer saw Benny standing before him , but a dark-skinned woman , whom he barely recognized after such a long time . |
| 27 | He made the Poles on his territory pay double the level of taxes paid by Germans , encouraged the Poles to sell up and move out and refused to rent out Royal Estates to Poles , declaring that he would rather see Danzig merchants working Pomeranian soil . |
| 28 | X/Open is in separate discussions with the UN over the organisation 's internal use of open systems , and there is speculation that X/Open 's involvement with the UN might eventually see X/Open president Geoff Morris being elected to the UN 's advisory board . |
| 29 | ‘ Yet she was still seeing Dr Kingdom . ’ |
| 30 | And I was , I was laughing and it , everyone was going because it was Patrick Swayze but I was still seeing Whoopie Goldberg ! |