Example sentences of "[adv] see [art] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alerted by a slight sound , she again opened her eyes , turning her head slowly to see a cup and saucer being placed on a nearby small table . |
| 2 | I went in to see the cats and then I swept up all the mess |
| 3 | Just enough to see a nose and one eye . |
| 4 | He was with the Post Office long enough to see the withdrawal and eventual reinstatement of the handy Sunday collections . |
| 5 | His heart beating painfully , Jack wheeled round , only to see a man and a woman emerge , looking dishevelled and frightened . |
| 6 | It is only to see the dentist and escape the heat . |
| 7 | ‘ We have been down to see the plans and were told we were not consulted because we were not affected , ’ she added . |
| 8 | I can only see a daddy and a little girl on a roundabout . |
| 9 | As Zen came through the door he suddenly saw an opening and lunged forward , so that for the next thirty seconds or so he was unable to reply to his visitor 's question . |
| 10 | He struggled with Manchester United , too , until he suddenly saw the light and realised he was going nowhere . |
| 11 | one of them said , you know , he said how , how the hell how the hell can they say which directions the fire 's coming from ? but they , I mean some of them were saying like this mate he run out , he was going across this patch of open space and the soldier obviously saw a soldier and as he did that apparently he got shot through there and out the other side of him . |
| 12 | As a child he had lain in bed long into the night , plotting his escape from an alcoholic father and a mother who managed not to see the bruises and the tears . |
| 13 | I was longing to say no when she rang on Sunday but simply could not — she is married to a German and only comes home to Scotland once a year because of the costs , and I know how much she likes to come through to see the shops and friends . |
| 14 | And have you looked erm , the headmistress took us outside to see the yard and that looks |
| 15 | AEA has not seen a copy and does not expect to do so . |
| 16 | They had not seen the flares and turned back … |
| 17 | to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it ! |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just seen the stewards and they are totally gutless . |
| 19 | Inevitably , referee Mike Fitzgibbon did not see the incident and needed to be helped out by a touch-judge . |
| 20 | He saw the tree rise up off the stage and did not see the rope and pulleys that raised it . |
| 21 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |
| 22 | Mr Goodwin did not see the file and does not know if his source had access to the file . |
| 23 | Rain suggested Cobalt carried on well past the Jonquil so that anyone arriving at the boat would not see the car and guess they were there . |
| 24 | I could not see the ravine and its bald cliff edges on account of the trees and shrubs that had reached a confident maturity despite long years of unprotected infancy and adolescence . |
| 25 | This spreadsheet is to be used to keep weekly scores for 16 boys and the problem it posed is that when you want to type in scores for weeks in the second half of the year or for Harry , Ian and John and so on whose names are entered to the right of the spreadsheet , you can no longer see the row and column labels — unless you freeze these titles . |
| 26 | Now I can exactly see the shape and size , the perfect fit , of the loneliness that is approaching . |
| 27 | Jack continued climbing , hoping to beat the clouds , they finally saw the sun and Brown fixed their position . |
| 28 | When I finally saw the doctor and I said , ‘ Can I have something ? ’ he said , ‘ What for ? ’ |
| 29 | M. B. On Dock Duty , you 'd stand all night and not see a soul and the Liver Building up there with the clock gradually going round and you 'd think : ‘ I wo n't look at it , I wo n't look at it at all . ’ |
| 30 | just see the hall and an |