Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confronted with Donna 's exuberant wardrobe , she realized there were only two courses open to her : either she took it on the chin ( ‘ straight spine , old girl , ’ ) , or she slunk away and refused to answer the phone when Donna called to see why she had n't been met . |
| 2 | The houses were scattered around , low-slung , timbered , with a thatched roof and small porch ; it was a village scene similar to many Corbett had seen elsewhere except for the small dark people , their furtive looks and quiet ways . |
| 3 | Bernice had seen enough . |
| 4 | The little maid whom Elisa had seen earlier standing by the door in the sitting room came into the dining room on both occasions and whispered something into his ear . |
| 5 | Woolley wanted to see only one thing : the ammunition drum . |
| 6 | And I had a test , and the old Colonel and Colchester came to see now and how you 're getting on , he was , just about retiring he wanted a different desk in his office . |
| 7 | Each year Mrs Curdle asked to see how the previous year 's bouquet had worn , so that the doctor and his wife were in honour bound not to destroy these offerings . |
| 8 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 9 | This merely involves a couple of beers in the evening , not even light training for the real thing of which Spain has seen far too much . |
| 10 | Its director , David Briar has seen how the farmers have made a new beginning . |
| 11 | Zen seemed to see again that glare of hostility and hear the Questore murmur , ‘ Until today he was handling the Miletti case for us . ’ |
| 12 | Zen seemed to see again that glare of hostility and see the Questore murmur . |
| 13 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 14 | But Hodkinson had seen more than enough . |
| 15 | Top LTA coach Ian Barclay has seen how much of a kick it has given the promising youngsters under his charge at Bisham Abbey , youngsters like Alex Osterrieth ( who reached the last 16 along with fellow Brit Andrew Hill in America ) , Steven Clark , James Cotman and Barry McColl . |
| 16 | Endill tried to see where he was but it was too dark and he waited , not daring to move , for the Headmaster to put on the lights . |
| 17 | Mark Kiff went to see how they fared . |
| 18 | Her stare was openly insulting , and Burun waited to see how Suragai would react . |
| 19 | It was vital that they did not think he had actually seen what he was about to say Robert had seen when the electric light flooded the converted attic . |
| 20 | Her face had a close , guarded look — one that Lily had seen already on Robert . |
| 21 | Schmidt waited to see how bad it would be to begin with — a gauge of how bad it might become . |
| 22 | Oliver had seen only Stan who , for a small fee , had agreed to ‘ forget ’ that he was spending the night there . |
| 23 | Montgomery had seen too many such people to feel more than a token sympathy . |
| 24 | Fraser and Azhar experimented to see how the feedforward net reacted when they fixed a piece of metal weighing 450 grammes onto the gripper . |
| 25 | Slowly Sara began to see why it was that her mother was so proud of her nationality , for there was something about these simple Portuguese mariners that inspired confidence and trust , so that she became increasingly sure that her decision to leave home and marry João had been well judged . |
| 26 | The variety of shores make it particularly good for birds such as waders and sea duck , and its situation ‘ next door ’ to Siberia makes seeing even more exciting birds a possibility . |
| 27 | Britain has seen barely a score , worth £2.1 billion ( $3.6 billion ) . |
| 28 | In her palm lies the bright scrap of a highly illegal netfly , something which Reynard has seen only in illustrations before . |
| 29 | However , Jones claimed to see only neutrons , and a few of those only at levels that might be interesting to science and geophysicists but of no relevance to making commercial fusion reactors . ’ |
| 30 | They resembled musical instruments , though remarkably different from any Cleo had seen before . |