Example sentences of "[verb] see [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , there facing you , is the person you least want to see at that moment . |
| 2 | The most important aspect of scanning is that you must have a clear picture of what you expect to see on each instrument . |
| 3 | They have two natural gaits the gentle , lolloping , forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other . |
| 4 | What we seek to see in this blizzard is the spectral shape approaching of what was once called — with a straight face — meaning . |
| 5 | They were exactly the sort you 'd expect to see at this kind of activity : mostly middle-aged or older Americans or Germans in running shoes , with a few earnest Guardian readers thrown in for local colour . |
| 6 | They 'd no internal passports in this tiny country , but from what he 'd seen of this building they had computers the like of which the Leningrad Militia could only dream about . |
| 7 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 8 | It was situated close to the United Nations headquarters as well as being only three blocks away from the African American Institute which Mobuto had requested to see at some point during his visit . |
| 9 | At least the rest of us manage to see to that job ourselves . ’ |
| 10 | Then you can pick out what you 'd like to see in more detail another time . |
| 11 | Mr Chairman could I ask a question because one of the things that I 've found missing this evening is specific things that people would like to see in this playhouse or perhaps specific things that we used to do and that find are missing and the last I have n't heard the word gallery mentioned from there much at all what do we think about the gallery ? |
| 12 | The began to see to each other , I believe winter has gone , some of the days were quite warm and Pink started to pressured ? |
| 13 | The minister is then faced with the task of keeking to see during that prayer whether there are enough potential listeners to justify proceedings with his prepared material . |
| 14 | It may seem sentimental to wish to see in this return of the young woman to her mother , in a spring in England half a life-time ago , the restoration to her agonized parent of that child snatched in a darker place , a darker time . |
| 15 | What we are beginning to see in this country — and I welcome it very much — is a sharp slowdown in the rise in unemployment . |
| 16 | And what a trick Fate had played on him by putting the very qualities he had wanted to see in that son in a daughter . |
| 17 | ‘ St Louis Music was one of the companies I went to see at that time , and it felt like Ampeg , especially , was home for me . |
| 18 | They 've been trying to see about that lot where the boys ' grammar school is int they ? |
| 19 | There was something odd in the way Faye was looking … no , peering … at those pictures , shifting the book or her head as if she had to see past some obstruction to get a good look . |
| 20 | After things that we 've seen in that field . |
| 21 | Well I I erm Roy Donson House Builders ' Federation , I I think it will because if you take Hambleton as an example and and and and we 've seen in more detail stage one er more detailed justification for the boundaries of some particular settlements in the Hambleton District Plan er based on a based on a landscape analysis . |
| 22 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 23 | He also said that the envelope the Brownie had kindly picked up had dropped from the Earl 's pocket without being noticed by him , and that as the Brownie was so kind as to share her sweets with him the Earl was sending a tin of his own , which he felt sure from what he had seen of this Brownie would find their way into the mouths of all the other Brownies in the Pack too . |
| 24 | The spacious living area of his suite was as luxurious as everything else she had seen of this hotel — a pair of couches facing each other across a low table , two individual chairs at an angle close to the window , with a desk and a bar supplying practical touches . |
| 25 | Moreover , Franco had seen in this development an aspect he could exploit for the reinforcement of his image as deliverer of the nation from evil . |
| 26 | It was n't difficult for Rachel to understand what her sister had seen in this man , and just for a moment she found herself reluctantly acknowledging the fact that if she did n't know what she did about him she too would find him very attractive . |
| 27 | No doubt about what Daniel had seen in this woman . |
| 28 | We have to see through this framework of thought for what it is : nothing short of academic ideology . |
| 29 | Melody was the last person he wanted to see at this moment , but he reined in when she called him . |
| 30 | We have seen above that strain will be maximal if the path length l is . |