Example sentences of "[verb] not see the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he has not seen the man he has hoped to see , his long spine slackens and he falls back upon the red vinyl of the booth with his eyes closed and his foot shaking in a livid tic . |
| 2 | Moscovitch found support for his proposition in the fact that split-brain patients sometimes begin to write with the left hand what is clearly a correct response to a stimulus seen in the left visual field , but that then the left hemisphere takes over control and the response is finished incorrectly since the left half of the brain has not seen the stimulus ( Levy , Mebes and Sperry , 1971 ) . |
| 3 | This week has not seen the end of the row about Europe in the Conservative party , but merely a regrouping of forces for the battle still to come . |
| 4 | She pretended not to see the look of dismay on Martin 's face and continued with her explanation . |
| 5 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 6 | The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all . |
| 7 | He did not see the guard revise his aim , away from the gathered crowd . |
| 8 | Inevitably , referee Mike Fitzgibbon did not see the incident and needed to be helped out by a touch-judge . |
| 9 | Tolstoy 's attempt to explain why the British did not see the massacre , by suggesting that there was a hill in the way , is therefore superfluous . |
| 10 | Musician Lake was bailed at Marylebone , London , on condition he did not see the boy . |
| 11 | He had his eyes downcast when they came to the corner of the great hall , and he did not see the Prince approaching , leading by the hand an unknown lady . |
| 12 | The Curator did not see the look in Mr Wolski 's eyes as he glanced back to the window and stared again at the wolves outside , who had turned to face the icy wind with narrowed yellow eyes . |
| 13 | He saw the tree rise up off the stage and did not see the rope and pulleys that raised it . |
| 14 | ‘ The defendant clearly did not see the bicycle because he hit it firmly in the rear , ’ Mr Reid said . |
| 15 | JTR ‘ did not see the glen to the greatest advantage ; the weather was too fine . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I did not see the television , as even my friends who had it had not the Independent ; and the only person who saw it seemed to be the greengrocer , who naturally had everything . |
| 17 | He did not see the trap she had set for him . |
| 18 | One man who , greatly to the relief of his family and parishioners , did not see the burning , for he died while the rebels were on their way , was the minister , William Reid . |
| 19 | While the market as a whole has shrunk over the past five or six years as the generational pattern of collecting and dealing has shifted , it did not see the boom prices of the 1980s and therefore has not experienced the recession to the same degree as some other areas . |
| 20 | Mr Goodwin did not see the file and does not know if his source had access to the file . |
| 21 | We did not see the signal as it was fast approaching time for our departure from York , but just before we left Mr Hopkin he informed us that there were also tickets , buttons , maybe som small brass fittings , an 1864 rail chair and possibly the original chimney of Carlisle from before her 1924 heavy overhaul . |
| 22 | We will be asked why we did not see the importance of the emerging European bloc on our doorstep . |
| 23 | Hardy is amused that Richard did not see the steel beneath the silk . |
| 24 | So we end up dissociating one piece of behaviour from another : in ‘ blindsight ’ , the verbal response ‘ No , I did not see the light ’ is dissociated from the ability to move the eyes towards the light . |
| 25 | The Feminine Mystique , which dared to put the silent question , did not see the light of day until 1963 , when it sold three million copies , but it was already being written and its audience was waiting . |
| 26 | I did not see the production until the following Christmas , when it contained an amusing touch which I imagine John must have added that year , after Leonide Massine had revived The Three-cornered Hat at Covent Garden : Hansel and Gretel danced a few steps with a bunch of grapes , a good-humoured quotation from the dance of the miller and his wife in Massine 's ballet . |
| 27 | The view mentioned by the hon. Gentleman has never been put to me and I did not see the article to which he referred . |
| 28 | for those of you that did not see the match the situation looked kind of like this : |
| 29 | 1 Where do we first learn about Auntie 's excellent eye-sight ? 2 Where do we first learn that Auntie can see into the future ? 3 How do we know that Auntie did not see the fire at the office block where she used to work ? 4 What exactly did Auntie foresee on the last afternoon of her life ? 5 Why did Auntie save Billy 's life , even though she knew that she herself would die ? |
| 30 | Flook claimed he did not see the family as they crossed a dual carriageway in Patchway , Bristol , as he was chased ‘ bumper to bumper ’ by two men in the other car . |