Example sentences of "[adv] see the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , referee Mike Fitzgibbon did not see the incident and needed to be helped out by a touch-judge . |
| 2 | He saw the tree rise up off the stage and did not see the rope and pulleys that raised it . |
| 3 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |
| 4 | Mr Goodwin did not see the file and does not know if his source had access to the file . |
| 5 | Rain suggested Cobalt carried on well past the Jonquil so that anyone arriving at the boat would not see the car and guess they were there . |
| 6 | I could not see the ravine and its bald cliff edges on account of the trees and shrubs that had reached a confident maturity despite long years of unprotected infancy and adolescence . |
| 7 | This spreadsheet is to be used to keep weekly scores for 16 boys and the problem it posed is that when you want to type in scores for weeks in the second half of the year or for Harry , Ian and John and so on whose names are entered to the right of the spreadsheet , you can no longer see the row and column labels — unless you freeze these titles . |
| 8 | Now I can exactly see the shape and size , the perfect fit , of the loneliness that is approaching . |
| 9 | He claimed he could n't properly see the dials and light indicators on the dashboard , as they were obscured by the leather Momo steering wheel . |
| 10 | She was breathing so quietly I could hardly see the rise and fall of her breasts , and those lips of hers looking fuller than I remembered , the mouth wider , and the line of the teeth just showing very white . |
| 11 | MacDonald declared that he would at once see the King and advise him to hold a conference on the following morning attended by Baldwin , Samuel and himself . |
| 12 | The building of a replacement for this historic one hundred and fourteen year old hospital is part of an eight year grand plan which will also see the upgrading and expansion of the Western General and St Johns Hospital in Livingston . |
| 13 | One more win would just about see the cherry and whites safe for another season in the first division . |
| 14 | Can you really see the link and will the reader ? |
| 15 | Naturally , I did n't immediately see the logic and justice of it . |
| 16 | So could I please see the Master and arrange it as quickly as possible ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I would be delighted to design the flowers for your wedding … | ’ The daydream was so engrossing that she almost did n't see the man and the girl struggling on the pavement opposite . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't see the headmaster and his wife as homemakers , to be brutally frank . |
| 19 | I ca n't see the exiles and émigrés banding together and achieving anything of importance but limited media coverage . ’ |
| 20 | They ca n't see the darkness and the spiderface beyond and the great web of it all . |
| 21 | Plummer did n't see the joke and glanced irritably at Hitch , waiting until they calmed down . |
| 22 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
| 23 | ‘ The priest was so preoccupied he did n't see the van and was heading up the ramp when I stopped him . ’ |
| 24 | If we ca n't see The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the shot it does n't exist . ’ |
| 25 | She thought she could almost see the memories and she could certainly hear the echoes . |
| 26 | It certainly freshens up the dusty atmosphere , and one can almost see the grass and leaves on the trees beginning to sprout . |