Example sentences of "[noun prp] see [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The king of Syria sees Judaea as a city-state , however peculiar , with its senate and other well-defined corporations , priests , scribes , singers . |
| 2 | David saw ACSS as a pressure group ( ‘ Not like Greenpeace . |
| 3 | The other day Richard saw Madonna on TV , arriving at a Hollywood film premiere , banks of photographers around her . |
| 4 | It seems that relations between the two men were at one time good , as on his tour of northern Italy in 1851 , Scott saw Ruskin in Venice , whom he had met previously , ‘ and spent a most delightful evening with him ’ . |
| 5 | The group came from the south of England to see Frankie in A Night At the Music Hall at the town 's Civic Theatre . |
| 6 | Initially Gordievsky was treated as a very important person and briefed Mrs Thatcher before her first meeting with Gorbachev.He was also flown to Washington to see Reagan before his meeting with the Russian leader in Geneva . |
| 7 | But Coventry 's Bobby Gould sees Gibson as the ideal replacement for Kevin Gallacher , who seems destined for a £2 million move to Chelsea . |
| 8 | Mountbatten saw Charles for what he was and liked what he saw , and for the first time the growing Prince was given some real sense of his own worth . |
| 9 | A few days later Keith Meerza sees Christopher for the last time . |
| 10 | He convinces Roderigo that Cassio is a rival likely to seduce Desdemona , and makes Othello and Montano see Cassio as a drunken and irresponsible officer . |
| 11 | I expect he 'll be flying over to Sweden to see Scotland in the European Championships . |
| 12 | Are we to deduce from this that Vincent saw Theo as an artist-manqué , or was he simply trying , not too hard in this instance , to shift the guilt a child feels before a self-sacrificing parent ? |
| 13 | Having lost their captain , Zbigniew Boniek , arguably the greatest of Polish footballers , to Juventus , Widzew saw Dziekanowski as a replacement and so , at 21 , ‘ Jacki ’ was transferred in 1984 for 21m zlotys , a record between Polish clubs , amounting at that time to some £200,000 . |
| 14 | Jed saw Carol at the end of the corridor and began to walk towards her . |
| 15 | Big puncher Benn sees Piper as a useful ‘ warm-up ’ before a lucrative return match with WBO champion Chris Eubank next spring . |
| 16 | Cope saw Jones in action a year or so ago , when he narrowly beat Hartlepool 's Kevin Crumplin in the national schools championships semi finals and repeated the victory just in a schools international . |
| 17 | Gascoigne saw MacArthur on 21 May and drew his attention to an article that day in the Nippon Times discussing the dissent within the American government . |
| 18 | According to the Israelis , when Shamir saw Bush in Washington he was able to get , as the price for no pre-emptive attack on Iraq , a promise that the US would not actually support a conference on the Middle East when the war was over . |
| 19 | Duncan Wood , who had taken over from Michael Mills as BBC television 's head of comedy , asked Allen to see Crawford on stage in No Sex , Please — We 're British . |
| 20 | Wednesday 's John Sheridan sees Atkinson as the future England partner to Blackburn 's Alan Shearer . |
| 21 | Language is made up of units that may be repeated sequentially ( e.g. papa ) or combined recursively ( e.g. Bill saw John in the car ) and so a way of recording competing interpretations is needed which distinguishes between different tokens of the same unit . |
| 22 | This step was a significant move in its own right , since de Gaulle saw China as one of the emerging giants of the new multipolar system . |
| 23 | Christina saw Edward about the hotel for the next few days . |
| 24 | This letter implies that Richardson saw Leapor as a poet of genuine merit . |
| 25 | School had broken up on the Thursday of that week , and on Friday evening Cassie saw Ben at his car , packing his holiday luggage in the boot . |
| 26 | France saw Space-Lab as an American attempt to control European space research . |
| 27 | Jacob saw Seb at almost the same time . |
| 28 | For many years there were political overtones in this opposition , with Citrine seeing Randall as the representative of a capitalist rump in the industry which must be controlled . |
| 29 | Macmillan saw Polaris as an ideal strategic weapon acquired at a modest cost ; he saw the Nassau negotiations as a diplomatic and political triumph . |
| 30 | Three years later , during the carnival of 1645 , John Evelyn saw Ercole in Lidia by Monteverdi 's pupil and successor at St. Mark 's , Giovanni Rovetta ( C. 1596–1668 ) , at the Teatro Novissimo , with ‘ variety of sceanes painted and contrived with no lesse art of perspective , and machines for flying in the aire , and other wonderfull motions … one of the most magnificent and expensive diversions the wit of man can invent ’ ; and the San Cassiano had a chorus for a few years . |