Example sentences of "[verb] see [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The leader is in good health and , in Maginnis 's opinion , should stay to see through the current phase — at least until the Government agrees to a select committee for Northern Ireland , whether or not there is any devolution .
2 What sort of programmes do we want to see in the nineties and beyond ?
3 It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance .
4 But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager .
5 The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting .
6 At half-past five he leant closer to the window and strained to see into the flat opposite .
7 Most of us of course will be occupied seeing in the New Year .
8 He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing .
9 She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again .
10 What kind of people what you expect to see on the local council in Nottingham ?
11 women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be .
12 Nobody stops learning , but at only 15st I 'm the fastest heavyweight the world has seen in a long time . ’
13 One has seen within the vast population of India the emergence of a substantial middle class with purchasing power equal to any European nation .
14 Now one of the things you might 've seen from the corporate briefings is you 've got the budget figure and a forecast figure .
15 On his death ten years later , he was succeeded as leader of the community by one of his companions , Abu Bakr , who later became seen as the first of a line of caliphs ( khulafa in Arabic ) .
16 She said to Rourke , ‘ You wanted to know if I 'd lent out keys to anyone — the telephone engineer , you said , and the man who came to see to the new extension around the back . ’
17 And what changes can we expect to see during the coming year ?
18 Its pointed head has the sort of bill you 'd expect to see on a prehistoric bird with a notch at the end like an aircraft , s radar .
19 Nevertheless , it is interesting to note that the risk elements used by Fuqua are very similar to some of the elements one might expect to see in a strategic analysis of market attractiveness and competitive strengths .
20 At first sight , he was the kind of big , bull-headed Irish-American you 'd expect to see in a blue uniform directing traffic , but he had Cyprus pretty much in his pocket and was planning to retire there after he 'd put in his twenty years .
21 ( iii ) What changes , if any , would you expect to see in the real plot at 223 K and 323 K ? ( c ) 0.10000g of gas Y at 273 K had the following pV values at the stated pressure p : ( i ) Estimate graphically the value of pV at zero pressure .
22 also it looked like Ronnie ‘ the runner ’ Rosenthal was in excellent shape for Israel against France — he looked sharp as hell from the glimpes Ive seen of the israelian goals — is he still at Liverpool ? ?
23 Marron told police he 'd been copying what he 'd seen on a pornographic video : Judge Paul Clark said it showed how harmful such videos were .
24 She rang the number she 'd seen on the underground and went to the address they told her .
25 And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor .
26 Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War .
27 We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village .
28 Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels .
29 Unable to summon the courage to enter the cold dark of the river the man , a lawyer by profession , finds himself at odd moments thereafter , and even in the courtroom , increasingly assailed by a laugh at the back of his mind , a laugh that mocks his whole posture in the world , a laugh that progressively exposes in him what he chooses to see as a guilty pretence .
30 I 'm , going to see inside a Maltese house after all ! ’
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