Example sentences of "[adv] see the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went in to see the cats and then I swept up all the mess |
| 2 | He was with the Post Office long enough to see the withdrawal and eventual reinstatement of the handy Sunday collections . |
| 3 | It is only to see the dentist and escape the heat . |
| 4 | ‘ We have been down to see the plans and were told we were not consulted because we were not affected , ’ she added . |
| 5 | He struggled with Manchester United , too , until he suddenly saw the light and realised he was going nowhere . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And have you looked erm , the headmistress took us outside to see the yard and that looks |
| 9 | They had not seen the flares and turned back … |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | ‘ I 've just seen the stewards and they are totally gutless . |
| 12 | Inevitably , referee Mike Fitzgibbon did not see the incident and needed to be helped out by a touch-judge . |
| 13 | He saw the tree rise up off the stage and did not see the rope and pulleys that raised it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr Goodwin did not see the file and does not know if his source had access to the file . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now I can exactly see the shape and size , the perfect fit , of the loneliness that is approaching . |
| 20 | Jack continued climbing , hoping to beat the clouds , they finally saw the sun and Brown fixed their position . |
| 21 | When I finally saw the doctor and I said , ‘ Can I have something ? ’ he said , ‘ What for ? ’ |
| 22 | just see the hall and an |
| 23 | He claimed he could n't properly see the dials and light indicators on the dashboard , as they were obscured by the leather Momo steering wheel . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ Kitty continued , ‘ all those years in that heat then she walks off to see the summer-house and would n't take a cardigan . |
| 25 | She was breathing so quietly I could hardly see the rise and fall of her breasts , and those lips of hers looking fuller than I remembered , the mouth wider , and the line of the teeth just showing very white . |
| 26 | MacDonald declared that he would at once see the King and advise him to hold a conference on the following morning attended by Baldwin , Samuel and himself . |
| 27 | I always saw the woman and there was , she knew me and er there was no problem . |
| 28 | We hardly saw the kids and when we did , we were nasty-tempered with them and each other . |
| 29 | After a close-up of the animals a split screen enables buyers to see still see the animals and relevant details including the current bid in the upper half and auction room with brokers delivering telephoned bids in the lower . |
| 30 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |