Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr McCulloh says the shakeout has already seen prices rise from a low of 40 cents a pound for live beef to nearly 90 cents this spring . |
| 2 | The Cheetahs lost 47 to 43 at Bellevue over the weekend , but despite that defeat hundreds of supporters turned up to see world cup er world champion Hans Nielsen in training last night relieved and smiling that their hero was staying in Oxford . |
| 3 | NEARLY 10,000 fans turned out to see St Helens ' new Kiwi signing Jarrod McCracken live up to his pre-match billing as the ‘ new Mal Meninga ’ . |
| 4 | Quite a relief , actually , Matthew thought , feeling older than Methuselah as Georgina rushed off to see Rory King-Thing . |
| 5 | For full details and entry forms please see pages 52 and 53 of this issue . |
| 6 | ‘ I would love to have seen 400,000 kids coming along to see Kylie on this tour , but it just is not possible , ’ said Waterman . |
| 7 | The figure looked back saw Martin and began to move more quickly between the graves and mausoleums . |
| 8 | Lucy did not see Doreen or Silas again until late in the afternoon when she moved to close the office window , and it was then that she caught sight of them standing outside one of the chalets . |
| 9 | Unlike them , Mary Queen of Scots did not see complexities in the situation ; like her grandson Charles I after her , she assumed that the expression of the royal will from a distance was enough to make problems go away . |
| 10 | Branson did not see Malcolm McLaren for another five months , by which time association with the Sex Pistols carried with it the whiff of high treason … |
| 11 | Scott does not see strata as consisting of individuals , nor does he see them simply as positions generated by the economic system , but rather as groups of inter-marrying and inter-connected families . |
| 12 | But as the painting was not yet dry he kept it in his room , and when a buyer came unexpectedly to see Modigliani and offered him ten francs for her portrait he took the money . |
| 13 | Gogarth has also seen action from Meyers , who braved the wall right of Hunger to provide Extinction E7/8 6b — an obviously scary number . |
| 14 | Another fortnight 's quiet made us coax my parents to come up to see Barrie 's ‘ What every woman knows ’ with Barbara Mullen . |
| 15 | Ronni glanced up to see Guido standing there watching her . |
| 16 | Adorno preferred instead to see fetishism as part of an objective social totality and not as a characteristic of human subjectivity ( Frisby 1985 , pp. 233–72 ) . |
| 17 | I 'd hoped she 'd just pick me up and we 'd be on our way , but Ash had n't seen Aunt Ilsa for a long time and insisted on exchanging more than just pleasantries with her and Mr G. |
| 18 | Duroc had never seen Nguyen Seth like this . |
| 19 | NIGEL HAD NOT SEEN KAREN IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS AND WHEN HE finally called on her she was cold . |
| 20 | Nigel Cramer came round to see Quinn during the lunch-hour , London time . |
| 21 | With a faintly fatalistic feeling , Rory glanced up to see Adam approaching the bar . |
| 22 | The mestizo looked up to see Trent watching him . |
| 23 | Many Christians do not see Jesus as a sacrifice in the same way . |
| 24 | Some organisations do not see culture shock as a threat to the completion of a term of work abroad . |
| 25 | Carrie did n't see Major Cass Harper again , but Nick did . |
| 26 | But Duncan had never seen weeds dripping fresh from the loch before . |
| 27 | Some Christians have mistakenly seen Jesus ' teaching in the Sermon on the Mount as a rejection of the Jewish law in favour of his new law of love . |
| 28 | The eye begins eventually to see pockets and spaces within the greys , the whites , the after-images of after-images of vibrant , sumptuous colour : the bands then begin to buckle and warp , blend into each other ; a kind of visual melt-down occurs as the retina tries to encompass this searing tension . |
| 29 | Bolt head has not seen Miss N'Grabbit for several weeks . |
| 30 | Dr Losberne gave orders that plenty of beer should be served before the officers went up to see Oliver . |