Example sentences of "[noun] see [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Loretta decided she would have to abandon her attempt to see Veronica for the rest of the day .
2 Race 4 for the Eric Freeman Trophy in force 2–3 winds outside the harbour saw Fenwick over the line at the start .
3 But Coventry 's Bobby Gould sees Gibson as the ideal replacement for Kevin Gallacher , who seems destined for a £2 million move to Chelsea .
4 An eye-witness saw Verri in the back seat gesturing towards the open telephone line and died shortly afterwards .
5 A few days later Keith Meerza sees Christopher for the last time .
6 She says that she and her husband saw Kimberley on the ground below the window .
7 As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club .
8 I expect he 'll be flying over to Sweden to see Scotland in the European Championships .
9 George was already phrasing his call to Culliman ; perhaps the request should be for Maxim to ‘ make himself available ’ to the Study group a suggestion of staying several days give the chap a chance to see Washington in the fall … and make a quick trip to St Louis and back .
10 Jed saw Carol at the end of the corridor and began to walk towards her .
11 He has been wanted by a string of clubs , including Manchester United , who last season saw Pearce as the final piece in a title jigsaw .
12 Wednesday 's John Sheridan sees Atkinson as the future England partner to Blackburn 's Alan Shearer .
13 Language is made up of units that may be repeated sequentially ( e.g. papa ) or combined recursively ( e.g. Bill saw John in the car ) and so a way of recording competing interpretations is needed which distinguishes between different tokens of the same unit .
14 Christina saw Edward about the hotel for the next few days .
15 For many years there were political overtones in this opposition , with Citrine seeing Randall as the representative of a capitalist rump in the industry which must be controlled .
16 HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria .
17 HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria .
18 Mark saw Jesus as the Messiah .
19 He was in Hollywood by 1915 in time to see Griffith at the height of his powers , and in a sense Vidor was always to remain a representative of the Griffith era ; he was to become Hollywood 's token Progressive in a period when the main energies of that phenomenon had been exhausted .
20 Still fastening buttons , she hobbled to the door in time to see Travis down the beach , waving his hands to attract its attention .
21 There 's little doubt the Commonwealth sees France as the main target of the mission , but as a mainly English speaking organization , its influence on President Mitterand may be limited so the French speakers among them will be pressed into service .
22 The result : Des was airlifted out of the Gulf in mid-May and , on May 29 , at Arden Grange International Quarantine Kennels in Albourne , Sussex , Dave saw Des for the first time since March 23 .
23 Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs .
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