Example sentences of "[verb] see [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the very least , it says a great deal about the conspiratorial mentality which the leaders of the Communist system have created that so many defectors tend to see deception at work everywhere . |
| 2 | Whenever one of the family is seen responding to their dog 's demands , he or she must pay 10p ( or 50p if you really want to see motivation at work ! ) into the other 's boxes . |
| 3 | If you want to see hell on earth go to the condemned hole the night before execution day . |
| 4 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
| 5 | She also wants to see investment in building schools and hospitals , to create jobs , and a rise in taxes . |
| 6 | Yeah I thought I 'd seen cloud on top on the hills . |
| 7 | ‘ She gives new insights , new ways of looking at things … she helped me begin to see pain as gift and grace . ’ |
| 8 | I would like to see justification by faith working its way through our fellowships , enabling us to accept one another on the basis of our fellowship in Christ . |
| 9 | We found the construction very sound and she was comfortable to live aboard , but we would like to see improvement in attention to some interior details . |
| 10 | ‘ Our reservoirs are all topped up but we 're only beginning to see recovery in water tables , ’ says John West of Anglian Water . |
| 11 | In Moscow he became a convert to Marxism , having seen Capitalism in action in Europe . |
| 12 | Ah , ’ she murmured , ‘ I must go to see cook about dinner . ’ |
| 13 | Where employers did see value in work experience schemes , it had to do with information about career choices . |
| 14 | I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything … |
| 15 | We do see scope for research into resource allocation but believe this ought to be quite different from the common practice of the 1980s of relating census variables to utilisation rates . |
| 16 | A player I would love to see play for Buraspor . ’ |
| 17 | But several witnesses had seen Orlick in town all evening . |
| 18 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 19 | Such a dismissive attitude , which fails to see research as part of a professional task , seems to me unhelpful because whenever we make a decision , it is based on assumptions and values . |
| 20 | They wanted to see a battleship launched , they wanted to see Royalty in action , they wanted to see anything that was happening which was an event in the world , and so cameramen like George Albert Smith , and eventually George Albert Smith 's staff , would go out around the world , much as it would happen now but in a much simpler way , erm to make actuality pictures . |
| 21 | Radicals wanted to see progress towards humankind as the central theme , but conservatives like Owen , worried about the status of the human soul , preferred more complex patterns of development that allowed for entirely new levels of organization to be introduced from time to time . |
| 22 | Line-up of eight Antonov An-2 biplanes seen recently at Riga Airport , Latvia , all of which have seen service with Aeroflot at some time during their flying careers . |
| 23 | ‘ In Scotland we have seen employment in manufacturing tumble from 605,000 people in 1979 to 348,000 today . |
| 24 | The sources , who have seen Viking in action , say that the thing works , and may even perform ahead of expectations when it eventually sees the light of day . |