Example sentences of "[vb past] see [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken asked to see Robert Bolt and demanded the speech to be cut . |
| 2 | He had taken it , now , that she was not going ; she expected to see resentment blossom , but he did not resent it . |
| 3 | The sun was beginning to set when Hazel woke to see Acorn listening and sniffing in the silence , between two white-skinned flints . |
| 4 | We thought about celebrating it early but Kelly seemed to see Christmas Day as something to work towards . |
| 5 | She 'd seen Jeanette close-to , and she 'd seen her scrubbed clean and ready for home . |
| 6 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 7 | Finally we give in and rent the movie we ignored a few months ago when we went to see Midnight Run . |
| 8 | I went to see Development Officer Gerwyn Lewis to hear about their latest venture , but first we talked about some of the woodland traditions . |
| 9 | Carol , who went to see Jungle Book , has a daughter , so her child is not David , who ate the popcorn . |
| 10 | Naturally , I went to see Buckingham Palace , not dreaming on that occasion that I would not only see it again but actually enter the premises . |
| 11 | A delegation of head teachers went to see Education Department ministers today to explain their predicament . |
| 12 | A delegation of head teachers went to see Education Department ministers today to explain their predicament . |
| 13 | On other evenings they were the scene of boxing programmes or wrestling spectaculars where , as Vogue reported , young and titled women went to see blood flow in the latest thrill of erotic chic . |
| 14 | The day after I walked out of the Times-Herald office I went to see Joe Hallonquist at his office in the Hammond Building . |
| 15 | He even went to see Hell Raiser III last night , ‘ and that did n't bother me at all . |
| 16 | The idea of the feasibility studies was to clear three problem areas : to determine what kind of after-care provision the DHAs wanted to fund to complement DGH facilities , what kinds of models of service they wanted to achieve , and on the basis of this work to clarify whether district authorities did see asylum replacement as feasible or not . |
| 17 | The rights of the commoners were finally championed by the Corporation of the City of London , which wished to see Epping Forest preserved as an open space . |
| 18 | East Germans in Prague said they had seen building work begin at the weekend to make it more effective . |
| 19 | Nutty had seen Plumpton training , in white , well-creased trousers and blancoed trainers , his muscly brown boys shooting up and down the baths like automatons . |
| 20 | The discontent was brought into the capital by the arrival in 1932 of some 15 000 unemployed " Veterans " ( i.e. men who had seen army service in the First World War ) . |
| 21 | More people had seen Sky television than John Major , the new Foreign Secretary . |
| 22 | A public that had seen income tax rise fivefold in five years were only too ready to believe that their money was being wasted . |
| 23 | A survey of the US top 100 firms by Public Accounting Report showed that almost 25% had seen revenue fall over the past 12 months , with a further 20% reporting growth of less than inflation . |
| 24 | And as a background she could still see those policemen going in and out of the house in Mouncy Street the day she had seen John Coffin sitting outside . |
| 25 | Crossing the Jotunheim in 1872 he had seen Störe Skagastölstind , the Matterhorn of the northern Alps , and resolved to make its first ascent . |
| 26 | By this stage , most of the pupils had seen news footage of the Gulf War at home on television . |
| 27 | And a quarter of those questioned even wanted to see sex education taught to children under 10 . |
| 28 | She wanted to see Sheikha Grandmother . |