Example sentences of "[pron] see [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it was his example that led me to see beneath the brilliance and beauty of Paris , where the plight of its dispossessed is mirrored in the experience of the very people — artists and intellectuals — who are responsible for its reputation . |
| 2 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 3 | One might , thus , fantasise the death of someone seen as a threat , or imagine oneself as possessing enormous fame or wealth . |
| 4 | Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon . |
| 5 | ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But what I saw as the character and what they the writers saw did n't match up at all . ’ |
| 7 | I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech . |
| 8 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 9 | And there he was , I went to look and I saw at the end there , a big pile of erm earth fresh earth you know . |
| 10 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 11 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 12 | Stooping , what I saw of the valley were glimpses of a richly farmed landscape and a dark brown river , all imbued with a hazy crepuscular Tuscan light . |
| 13 | From what I saw of the match he played well . |
| 14 | From the little I saw of the game Ipswich seemed quite content with standing inside their own penalty box and only closing down people when they got within 2 yards of it . |
| 15 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 16 | I saw on a church bill-board recently the familiar statement , ‘ Wise men still seek Christ ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once . |
| 18 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
| 19 | She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way . |
| 20 | Now I know what I saw on the bridge ! ’ |
| 21 | I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning . |
| 22 | He assures me we both , from what he and I saw on the spot , can go beyond what Jerome himself knows . ’ |
| 23 | A belated attempt at abdomen-straining brought it swimming back into fuzzy focus , but that dial was all I saw during the remainder of an interminable fast-jet loop . |
| 24 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 25 | I saw from the clock that Ben had run 10.03 , not as fast as Carl , who had gone below ten seconds again . |
| 26 | In fact , I saw from the station clock that I had timed my arrival just about perfectly . |
| 27 | I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to . |
| 28 | What I saw from the air was a new runway , freshly mown and very inviting . |
| 29 | Some of the bogs I saw from the train window had been ‘ harvested ’ , and rows of beehive-shaped ‘ peat cocks ’ stood like haycocks , awaiting collection . |
| 30 | Later , I saw by a date in a book that she was not yet eighteen . |