Example sentences of "[adv] see [prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was crazy to see a girl naked , and especially to see between her legs . |
| 2 | You can only see like his back his legs an and the back of running . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | During wintertime John Lowson was rarely seen without his hessian sacks . |
| 5 | It was hard not to see in his wife Elizabeth 's face a marked sense of relief . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Often they were not seen by their owners for weeks . |
| 9 | If women do that then they are not seen by their children . |
| 10 | He explains their shifts and duties , and gives them their copy of the document which they have already seen at their interview . |
| 11 | We have already seen in our analysis of speech acts ( in 3 ) how the meaning of a simple piece of spoken discourse like The window is open can change fundamentally with the relationship of sender and receiver , and this feature of language is by no means peculiar to speech . |
| 12 | And the reason is the one we have just seen with our biomorph model . |
| 13 | So , because in this Festival we will be reaching people we normally do not reach as a group , for instance we 're having two pop concerts , the Rory Bremner thing , we 're going to be reaching people we do n't normally see on our D I Y. |
| 14 | ‘ If you imagine she does not see through your wiles , ’ came Araminta 's shrill tone , ‘ then you are a great fool , Benedict . ’ |
| 15 | They are heading for a gathering at a place I can not see on my map , but they seem content with the direction I have chosen . |
| 16 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 17 | The group broke up as they wandered off to see to their spouses , children or cups of tea . |
| 18 | The mill was quite close to home so in the lunch hour I was able to go home to see to my mother who was ill at the time . ’ |
| 19 | The gifted Roberto Mancini , once seen as his twin , is flourishing without him . |
| 20 | He 's 13 and he is the most talented lad I have ever seen at his age . |
| 21 | The dockside was the busiest place Ruth had ever seen in her life . |
| 22 | Standing beside Dennis was the best-looking man she had ever seen in her life . |
| 23 | Then he turned and went out , leaving Ellie to stare speechlessly at the most money she had ever seen in her life . |
| 24 | He was the best-looking boy she had ever seen in her life . |
| 25 | More diamonds than she had ever seen in her life . |
| 26 | ‘ My home , ’ Felipe de Santis said quietly and Maggie saw , at the head of the valley , the most fabulous place she had ever seen in her life . |
| 27 | ‘ All present and correct , sir , ’ he said and the smartest dressed man Charlie had ever seen in his life returned the salute . |
| 28 | But when is he going to give an ounce of credit to the Government for having set up the TECs , for having put in place the instrument of the training revolution that is now taking place in this country , and for having taken the most imaginative step that we have ever seen in our training history ? |
| 29 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |
| 30 | Mind you , it 's still more money than you 've ever seen in your life . ’ |