Example sentences of "[vb past] see in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 2 | Of these a few came to see in friendship the whole meaning of life : Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and E.M . |
| 3 | Her underwear was lacy red and black , brief and garish , the kind of stuff he 'd seen in Soho shops and assumed was the monopoly of prostitutes . |
| 4 | Only the diehards used them now , that was the first one I 'd seen in captivity for some months . |
| 5 | It was the corniest , happiest , most affectionate movie I 'd seen in years . |
| 6 | It was the red-head she 'd seen in town . |
| 7 | We paused to watch a hawk hunting above one of the islands which splits the Vltava , and I asked Ladislav about the posters I kept seeing in windows . |
| 8 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 9 | There was free distribution of milk to the poor and broth to the sick in the villages nearby , and an almshouse was established , modelled on those which Nicholas had seen in Holland . |
| 10 | The pictures however did n't seem to be of artistes of any kind ; they were just of anonymous , handsome young men , the sort of photographs that Boy had seen in barber 's windows showing the kinds of haircut you could get . |
| 11 | She was afraid she would have a defective child because she had seen in Angharad what could happen in her husband 's family . |
| 12 | She had seen that instantly the next afternoon ; in Rachel 's eyes she recognised the same melting joy as she had seen in Lisa 's . |
| 13 | Since the evening of the reception at the governor 's palais when she had turned her head to find him looking at her , the memory of the naked desire she had seen in Jacques Devraux 's eyes had smouldered in her mind . |
| 14 | Joanna grinned back , her serene beauty sparkling into the quick , unexpected mischief that Isabel had seen in fitzAlan . |
| 15 | The scheme bore the unmistakable stamp of Kurt Hahn and his trust system that Charles had seen in operation at Gordonstoun . |
| 16 | The serveuses reminded me of those I had seen in paintings by Monet . |
| 17 | In Genesis 50 , and more tentatively in 45 also , discoveries were made about forgiveness that no-one had seen in Genesis before . |
| 18 | On return from a ten-day visit to the five republics of former Yugoslavia , Dr Hiroshi Nakajima , WHO Director-General , was visibly appalled by what he had seen in Bosnia-Herzegovina particularly the destruction of some 260 hospitals and the gravity of the wounds caused by the high-velocity bullets . |
| 19 | The cities I had seen in England and France left me unmoved ; their crowds had no interest for me : they lacked the colour and variety for which I craved . |
| 20 | Musgrave suggested the scenery along this stretch of the Seine reminded him of Norfolk : ‘ more like English scenery than any district I had seen in Europe . ’ |
| 21 | Apollinaire pointed out that Boccioni 's best works were those in which he came nearest to recent works by Picasso which he had seen in Paris . |
| 22 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 23 | It was not the sort I had seen in West Africa , with side-windows missing and as many chickens on board as people , but as plush as the one that had recently taken our Parish Fellowship for an evening drive around Cheshire . |
| 24 | The equivalent of the high street in Passy was much smarter than anything I had seen in London . |
| 25 | Probably sixty-three or sixty-four , and according to the photographs she had seen in newspapers and geographical magazines , and his occasional appearances on television , he looked considerably younger than his age , and very fit indeed . |
| 26 | In developing the character of Frank Spencer from Raymond Allen 's scripts , he partly based it on a young man with bicycle clips whom he had seen in Battersea . |
| 27 | Despite our unsavoury choice of shipmates , our arrival was cause for celebration , and on the very first afternoon we were whisked away from Sinar Surya to stay in the comfort of the sultan 's guesthouse , which was far more impressive than anything we had seen in Makassar . |
| 28 | Suddenly Oliver recognized the woman he had seen in Fagin 's house . |
| 29 | Her only regret was that Dr Neil did not buy the Clarion Cry so that so far the only piece of her work which she had seen in print was the one which she had written before she had arrived in the East End . |
| 30 | I was nine years old and this was the first foreign film I 'd seen ( probably the first most people had seen in East London ) . |