Example sentences of "[conj] see [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is not an isolated story — to this day many people report hearing or seeing a strange presence on the slopes of the mountain . |
| 2 | He returned to his workshop , hoping to bump into him on the way , but arrived without hearing or seeing a single trace of the forgetful scientist . |
| 3 | I imagined a morning 's stroll through quiet streets , gazing at patisseries , and then being able to nip up to Paris to visit the Musée d'Orsay or to see a major exhibition . |
| 4 | The same with Jesus , many people looked at Jesus and saw a village joiner , or saw a wandering preacher , or saw a wonder working doctor , or a political adventurer . |
| 5 | Travel by luxury train to the scenic Denali , where the afternoon is yours to explore the nature trails , take photos or see a dogsled display . |
| 6 | With the breakdown of faith in the fundamental rationality of man we no longer ask , for example , whether the drives of Freud 's Id and Super-ego are to be classed as egoistic , or see a puzzling self-contradiction in masochism . |
| 7 | Maria did n't need to look at his face or see the confident way he carried himself as he stepped out of the lift with her . |
| 8 | Nothing is more heartbreaking than to see a beautiful glider damaged by incompetent handling on the ground . |
| 9 | There is nothing more dispiriting , he says , than seeing a young doctor who has spent years on a project and has no thesis to show at the end of it because the project was ill-considered and ill-supervised . |
| 10 | It is a wonderful thing to see , and somehow gives you a greater thrill than seeing a conventional float slide under the surface . |
| 11 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 12 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 13 | Implicit in it is a belief in the nobility of the suffering victim and a judgement that sees the working class as inevitably corrupted by material things . |
| 14 | Radical feminism is that trend in the women 's movement that sees the patriarchal system as the enemy and sometimes men as the enemy . |
| 15 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 16 | In the summer of the same year that saw the first air mail service across Western Canada I met Hollick-Kenyon by arrangement in New York . |
| 17 | It was these communities that saw the greatest pattern of change during the middle ages although , with a couple of notable exceptions , this was a very long process indeed but with some sudden shifts of direction . |
| 18 | Spending on AFDC , in real terms , fell by nearly a fifth between 1975 and 1989 — the period that saw the biggest growth in illegitimate births . |
| 19 | In the period 1951–64 , of all the policy areas with which this book is concerned , it was probably education that saw the most innovation . |
| 20 | Psst ! ’ then , ‘ Miss ! ’ and to see a young man stepping from the side of the coalhouse where he had evidently been waiting . |
| 21 | You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means ! |
| 22 | ‘ We hope to be able to introduce a bill as soon as the legislative timetable permits and to see the new line completed around the end of the decade . ’ |
| 23 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Julie was simply looking forward to an exciting holiday in Africa and seeing a good friend again , ’ said Graham . |
| 25 | ‘ I fear we have to make a quick decision , ’ said Oliver ironically , looking out of the window and seeing a departing victoria . |
| 26 | I remember being in a supermarket once and seeing a pregnant woman struggling with the door . |
| 27 | Kate looked at her mother sharply and seeing the mischievous look on her face she grinned . |
| 28 | I remember her telling me — much later in life — of that standing on a distant hillside and seeing the ochre dust float slowly up into the azure sky . |
| 29 | looking down and seeing the young man again . |
| 30 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |