Example sentences of "[verb] see a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 2 | ‘ And we did n't want to see a team of scriptwriters messing around with our characters . |
| 3 | I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat . |
| 4 | Below the photic zone oxygen is consumed by biological activity so immediat from immediately below the photic zone you tend to see a decrease in oxygen with depth reaching a minima somewhere between five hundred and a thousand metres depth |
| 5 | We played the harmonium and sang together and Dad sometimes gave us money to go to see a picture at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 6 | America , Canada , Britain and Sweden are all now expected to see a fall in economic output this year ; America 's GNP is forecast to shrink by 0.4% . |
| 7 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 8 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ Now look , Connie me pet , it 's bleedin' cold in the parlour , ’ complained Archie , ‘ and , anyway , I got to see a bloke about a job . ’ |
| 10 | In doing so , he failed to see a pothole in the driveway , fell off and was injured . |
| 11 | We want to see a country in which women can go about their lives without fear of attack , where the colour of someone 's skin is not a virtual guarantee of unemployment , where work — whether social , productive or domestic — would be properly valued and regarded . |
| 12 | There is also speculation that the rebels want to see a change of manager . |
| 13 | The Institute of Advanced Motoring 's 120,000 members desperately want to see a change in the law . |
| 14 | ‘ I expect they want to see a bit of night life , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 15 | Okay , if you want to see a sample of |
| 16 | Because we want to see a review of the whole system of union representation within the council to see whether it 's an appropriate sort of representation for an organisation of this size . |
| 17 | Neither they nor finance-ministry officials want to see a repeat of that scary event . |
| 18 | It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks . |
| 19 | Next morning the sun rose to see a variety of signs hanging , not always squarely , on the battered quarry gate . |
| 20 | I pretended to see a pin on the floor . |
| 21 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 22 | If you rent a place to live in rather than work in , you may need to see a solicitor about any of these legal matters : |
| 23 | One witness described seeing a plume of moke and a ball of fire and then seeing a body on the road . |
| 24 | He should repeat his assurance that , while Labour is opposed to the privatisation of water and electricity and wants to see a return to public control , it is not the party 's intention to clobber those who buy shares . |
| 25 | In my experience , young people in a family have been directed to go and conceive a child as quickly as possible because a dying person wants to see a grandchild to ‘ know that his name will live on before he dies , . |
| 26 | Er anybody that actually wants to see a list of the prizewinners from last year , from the actual race , I do have a copy er |
| 27 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 28 | But she certainly had n't expected to see a selection of Penguin Classics . |
| 29 | France are the only member of the Five Nations to accept an invitation , although it can be expected to see a number of England 's high-order in the Barbarians side and Irish charm amongst the Irish Wolfhounds . |
| 30 | In principle , one could have expected to see a list of such bodies appended as a Schedule to the Act , but the Lord Chancellor , with all his ‘ numerous and talented counsellors ’ , was unable to cause one to be drawn up . |