Example sentences of "[adv] see [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | AN ELDERLY couple rarely seen outside their home in recent years have been found dead with more than £30,000 in cupboards and under floorboards . |
2 | and so land reform was no longer seen as a means to achieve their end that they that and that it was n't the best policy to consolidate power , it was you needed to have the mass support there first so that 's why land reform was no longer seen as their goal so they did n't take it up at this point when one would expect them to pursue it . |
3 | Freedom , if only for a short time , and she would have a chance to speak to Rose , whom she had not seen since their evening out together up West . |
4 | He explains their shifts and duties , and gives them their copy of the document which they have already seen at their interview . |
5 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
6 | He built roads , schools , hospitals , and sent students abroad for further education , most to France and some to Germany , which many Iranians still saw as their friend simply because it was the traditional enemy of both Britain and Russia . |
7 | Their idea of reality remains trapped in the cultural viewpoint which their theory of literature was trying to replace , and the difficulties which this led to can be most clearly seen in their theory of literary history : despite their innovatory definition of literary history as a discontinuous series , they were unable to explain how literary history related to other historical series . |
8 | Jennie preferred to stay and supervise ; she was always backstage seeing to their make-up : |