Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] see " in BNC.

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1 The mist was now so dense it was more like a sea fog , the humidity very high and the sweat dripping from my forehead as I leaned forward , my eyes straining to see through the murk .
2 My eyes begin to see again .
3 The last time that the transport did n't come , my friends came to see me instead .
4 My folks want to see the inside of a real pub .
5 When I was working Edgbaston , one of my colleagues went to see er , a couple er , one night .
6 My colleagues have seen eight or nine bodies , mostly apparently students , visibly dead , bleeding from head wounds in the streets … , ’ a British diplomat told BBC television news .
7 ‘ I am dead in law ’ — but of the girl he denied that he had ‘ attempted to vitiate her at Nine years old ’ ; for ‘ upon the word of a dying man , both her Eyes did see , and her Hands did act in all that was done ’ .
8 There was enough money in her savings account to see her through for a while .
9 But it was too late , their kids had seen me .
10 I gathered that her parents had seen only that Laura was losing touch with reality .
11 The organisation of our course recognizes the fact that our school population is of above average ability , and that our pupils and their parents wish to see real progress being made .
12 But how do the team know that this is what their viewers want to see ?
13 Clothes are made with the family 's approval and love but also so that women can look as their families wish to see them — modest , maternal , self-effacing , or just beautiful on their terms .
14 If you have players who are obsessed with mapping detail , they will have a very tough time inside the Castle , but in describing the outside of it , when their characters seem to see slight differences each time they look at the buildings , add the disorientating detail that the characters can not remember exactly what the Castle looked like at any time prior to the present moment .
15 When all applicants who have met or are predicted to meet the conditions stated in the table of course requirements have had their UCAS form seen by the selectors , offers will be made to the rest of the applicants .
16 ‘ Those in charge of distribution here used to get hold of prints of movies like Rambo and Ghostbusters and invite their friends round to see them .
17 Most of them on finding their symptoms gone see little point in either remembering their daily dose or for that matter paying out money for more medicine when they feel well .
18 He was not someone whom Rigby or her classmates had seen as a pin-up type .
19 Gwendolen McEwen had always felt left out when her schoolfriends went to see their grandparents , because she had none .
20 Its citizens have seen how the capitalist half of Europe lives and they want a share .
21 Many companies which have empowered their employees have seen impressive gains in productivity and quality and improvements in industrial relations .
22 By then Tec-huc and Pulvidon and their followers had seen me , but had n't looked at all surprised .
23 Nor did it help Ford that many of his junior officers and a good third of his rankers had seen far more fighting then he had himself .
24 The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion .
25 It may be embarrassing to explain that , as in the nursery tale , the Emperor has no clothes after all , that the constitutional attire his courtiers claim to see is empty words , but that is the essential of this article .
26 However , before any of this could happen , Rear-Admiral Kotov , from the Ordzhonikidze , went to see Rear-Admiral Philip Burnett , Chief of Staff of the Portsmouth naval base , complaining that his sailors had seen a frogman near his ships that morning , and demanding an explanation .
27 Regularly means that we go in anyway t every six months you go and have your teeth checked to see if they 're okay .
28 Our eyes have seen the promised land , our feet have crossed her streams —
29 Nor need your eyes miss seeing what your feet perhaps can not take you to .
30 PEG : Do you think your eyes need seeing to ?
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