Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.

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1 Nicholson responded that perhaps Corey had n't seen the poetry he was showing him .
2 ‘ It 's so planes do n't see where to bomb , ’ continued Tom , as if he had read his thoughts .
3 And moreover Clara had even seen in the phrase some dim , far-off flicker of comfort , because , harsh though it was , it was not without a consoling figurative literary beauty .
4 Probably Peter did not see it .
5 It was like one of the rooms Little Billy had once seen in the Queen 's Dolls ' House at Windsor Castle .
6 Tretyakov Director Yuriy Korolev confirmed the idea of construction with him , and now Yeltsin has effectively seen to it that the project is carried out .
7 Mother Francis had asked God very often for a way to send Eve Malone to university but so far God had not seen fit to show her one .
8 She knew very well Gwen had n't seen much of him — he was always in her cottage !
9 Presently Anna turned round to see a girl of about six shaking Corrie by the shoulders .
10 Even Nimbus has yet to see either silicon , and is working purely from specifications .
11 Sure enough , against all the odds , and with our cameras back at the Rante , we were about to watch the " calling of the eels " , a rite barely referred to in the literature on the Toraja , and which even Werner had never seen .
12 Seven years earlier Anselm had not seen the king 's responsibility for order in the Church as an expression of self-will fighting against Rectitudo .
13 I do n't understand why people do n't see the difference — good design wo n't go out of fashion . ’
14 He was still in bed in the late afternoon when Mary called in to see him .
15 And I still think one of the oddest things in this case is why Stratton did n't see his wife safely up to her room .
16 Stranger this new guest might be , certainly Cadfael had never seen him before , but it was no particular problem to work out who he must be , even if that left his presence here as a mystery .
17 Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake .
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