Example sentences of "[coord] see [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 2 | You could imagine you were prospecting some dark land and seeing camp fires , or signal fires , or fires that were the only known evidence of a hidden tribe . |
| 3 | She knew they could kick well and seeing ballet dancers on pointe , not being a dancer , thought it would be simple to combine the two . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been on the bus since then and there has been nothing quite as bad but I have still heard very loud swearing and seen emergency doors open . ’ |
| 5 | One expects and sees silk stockings or nowadays fish-net tights on made-up hussies with split or very short skirts , or brief frilly knickers , low-necked bodices or tight gaudy corsets , elaborate hair-dos or hats , and so on . |
| 6 | We passed giant slabs of ice which had buckled up into a cracked swelling over a rock and saw ice discs spinning on the surface of the water like root-less lily pads . |
| 7 | Pensioners , some in their 80s , were shaken by a loud explosion and saw 30ft flames burst from the storage tank . |
| 8 | One day , tired of auditioning overdressed children of friends , he looked out of his window and saw street children arguing over a stick . |
| 9 | I hope that if in the future the Fellowship organizes a show , the overriding principle will be that woodworker can meet with woodworker and see work examples and demonstrations that will inspire and stimulate the imagination of us all . |
| 10 | ‘ When you see people weeping as they sing the swelling choruses of Jerusalem , ’ says Peter Morgan , director-general of the Institute of Directors , ‘ you 're listening to people who hate everything about industry and have a bucolic dream — and who are also Fabians , and see business leaders as slave-drivers . ’ |
| 11 | Finally an interesting result of research showed that feeding carp neat amino acids could reduce growth and see amino acids excreted . |
| 12 | Everybody can watch the same design on the screen and see styling improvements and changes as they are made . |