Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queen Victoria lived on to see these tremendous changes and in June 1897 , when the British Empire was probably at its peak , she celebrated her Diamond Jubilee with great pomp and ceremony . |
| 2 | ICL has meantime seen its share drop from 8.7% in 1989 to 8.4% in 1990 , and duly return to 8.7% in 1991 . |
| 3 | It 's eight now and Mr Vigo has n't seen it for years . |
| 4 | Gary has n't seen er , shall we , Walk on The Wild Side has he ? |
| 5 | ‘ What 's more , Charlie Trumper comes with the deal , the finest fruit and vegetable man the East End has ever seen . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Victoria has n't seen her father for months . |
| 7 | Jo Baker 's guest house in Ross on Wye has n't seen much trade recently . |
| 8 | Which Roger has n't seen yet |
| 9 | He is the finest King Portugal has ever seen ! |
| 10 | Miss Debrace has never seen the place . |
| 11 | Angie turned round to see an inmate bedecked with gold chains , bracelets and tattoos . |
| 12 | Quite a relief , actually , Matthew thought , feeling older than Methuselah as Georgina rushed off to see Rory King-Thing . |
| 13 | Frankie glanced up to see her quietly mouthing the words as lights from the screen flickered across her face . |
| 14 | Although Durkheim did not see economic developments as unimportant , for him they were in no way basic . |
| 15 | Lucy did not see Doreen or Silas again until late in the afternoon when she moved to close the office window , and it was then that she caught sight of them standing outside one of the chalets . |
| 16 | Ramsey did not see why it should not have a wider interest as in Henson 's day . |
| 17 | Ghatak did not see any contradiction between these two approaches . |
| 18 | Hardy is amused that Richard did not see the steel beneath the silk . |
| 19 | Branson did not see Malcolm McLaren for another five months , by which time association with the Sex Pistols carried with it the whiff of high treason … |
| 20 | He probably will not sleep in the unlikely event of the ghost of mass murderess Mary Ann Cotton showing up to see the graves of her victims . |
| 21 | Delia Sutherland did not see the children among the headstones . |
| 22 | Corbett had rarely seen such beauty . |
| 23 | Corbett had never seen such evil in someone so small : black hair slicked back against the head like the ears of a wet rat ; tiny , soulless eyes and a face as twisted and as sour as a rotten apple . |
| 24 | His sparse blond hair was dark with sweat , and his surprised blue eyes and hangdog look made him the most unlikely royal messenger Corbett had ever seen . |
| 25 | It was the only chamber Corbett had ever seen where there were no torches fixed to the wall . |
| 26 | Bernice had n't seen them at first : their black silk cloaks merged into the darkness beyond the doorway , and only the jerky movements of the red-painted muzzles of their stubby blasters revealed their location . |
| 27 | Bernice had never seen such sadness in his eyes — in anyone 's eyes . |
| 28 | The refectory door was open again , and standing in it , filling it , was the most grotesquely fat woman that Bernice had ever seen . |
| 29 | Kathleen had always seen the sense of things , once they were explained . |
| 30 | Minto was ‘ more excited ’ than Warnie had ever seen her when he returned from Aldershot far week-end leave , happy to leave behind him his fellow-officers , whom he nicknamed the Aldershits . |