Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] see the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I appreciate that I have to lead my group to see the story as symbol ? |
| 2 | ‘ I discussed the matter with my wife and signed a contract straight away — without my wife seeing the house . |
| 3 | I do n't want to think about it ; I do n't want those puzzled eyes locked on my face seeing the madness spilling out of me . |
| 4 | When my mother saw the room , her jaw dropped . |
| 5 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 6 | Without thinking she snapped off a shot towards him , and through the blur of sweat in her eyes saw the figure spin , and lurch . |
| 7 | George stopped and Libby crouched beside him , waiting until her eyes saw the figure by the tree . |
| 8 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
| 9 | Peasants might share their longing to see the abolition of taxes and noble landownership , but they could make little of the more visionary socialist elements of the young radicals ' propaganda , or indeed of their attacks on the revered Tsar . |
| 10 | I thought some more , and said , ‘ But if their parents see the animal , the parents will go crazy . ’ |
| 11 | Moreover , for all its reluctance to see the emergence of a proletariat detached from the land , the government became more and more firmly convinced of the need to encourage manufacture . |
| 12 | She received a charming welcome from Monique Lavaux , and a boisterous one from Marie-Christine , who promptly dragged her off to her room to see the wedding dress she was making for herself , in fold after fold of shimmering ivory brocade . |
| 13 | She must toss her head to see the lake clear again , and the action recalled how differently she had felt on the day when she skated there with Edwin Frere and Tom . |
| 14 | Nothing could happen until the evening , but then Lucy got her chance to see the inside of Charlie 's office much sooner than she 'd expected . |
| 15 | When her father saw the evidence of this sin he condemned her to death . |
| 16 | Diana had said she would look in to say hello to give them a morale boost , but when one of her staff saw the route she had to take to get there they said she could not possibly go . |
| 17 | On his television programme last week , Barry Norman advised viewers not to take their wives to see The Hand that Rocks the Cradle . |
| 18 | Ann whispered the question to Harry while the new arrival was being led upstairs by her cousins to see the house . |
| 19 | When they came into the light her mother saw the child 's face covered in blood and felt faint . |
| 20 | Perhaps his most inspired piece is the saga of Cosmo , the fairly accurate knife thrower , whose failure to see the point makes him the sharpest act in town . |
| 21 | But there are signs that not all his contemporaries saw the relationship in such simple terms . |
| 22 | Charles Kingsley and his associates saw the question , Cole records , as a moral issue ; and valued Consumers , Co-operation only because it helped to provide retail outlets for producers ' co-operatives . |
| 23 | It is clear that Manne and his supporters see the use of inside information as a reward to entrepreneurs and other corporate employees for their initiative and ingenuity ; a perk , as it were , for the role they play within the economic system . |
| 24 | At last the big bully grated to a stand-still , and opened his eyes to see the effect on his little friend . |
| 25 | A fierce blizzard raged for days , but through it Tallis saw the mother slip away to the south , carrying weapons and a bag . |
| 26 | But , equally , his determination to see the job through to the end is typical of Ulster true grit in the face of naked terror . |
| 27 | A YOUNG council worker , who quit his job to see the world with his fiancee , died in a boating accident yesterday . |
| 28 | When one has told a friend about a stage performance or some media utterance that one feels he should go to see , one has performed that work to the friend and partly negated his need to see the work for himself . |
| 29 | They were silent on the way back , walking to cool the horses ; if his father saw the state they were in he would be angry . |
| 30 | The laibon says that his father saw the sense in it . |