Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] see the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 2 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 3 | One trader happened to have a case of brylcream in stock and over the course of several months he saw the retail price of his 144 jars increase : it doubled , trebled , eventually quintupled . |
| 4 | It is here that theorisations which see the nuclear family as a means for controlling the working class in the ‘ interests of capitalism ’ can be seen to be inadequate . |
| 5 | Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures . |
| 6 | This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue . |
| 7 | This is because poorer families who see the superior goods being consumed by their richer neighbours will attempt to ‘ keep up with the Joneses ’ and so spend a large fraction of their incomes . |
| 8 | The problem is Mr Ramos has become a focus of discontent among younger officers who see the retired general as politically ambitious and militarily incompetent . |
| 9 | In his drugged dreams he saw the silent faces crying ; he saw the loving mouth distorted with grief ; he knew about the humiliation and the want — all his fault , his fault , his responsibility , his wickedness , his weakness , his sin , his sacrificial past , the victim to what end — who was murdered at that powerful stone circle near Keswick ? |
| 10 | A passer-by told officers he saw the 16-year-old bundled into a car as she went to the shops . |
| 11 | There all had seemed worthwhile , for going up and down the stairs I saw the familiar ‘ Barts ’ nurses holding precious little bundles in their arms . |
| 12 | The spectre of the great apostasy was always a threat to the more ideologically committed evangelicals but Terence O'Neill 's reforms , tepid and half-hearted as they were , raised the spectre to a power and status from which it threatened a far greater number of rural Presbyterians who saw the proposed changes as proof that Paisley had been right all along . |
| 13 | The collision left the area looking like a ‘ battlefield , ’ according to witnesses who saw the injured taken from the scene . |
| 14 | The accused also might not be able to call witnesses who saw the damage-causing driver , because that driver may have terrified the witnesses to prevent them from giving evidence . |
| 15 | I thought , when I went and opened the windows I saw the other one but I did n't see the |
| 16 | The haze of his first cigarette clouded the room briefly and in the streak of light from the curtains he saw the heaped clothes and the mark on the hotel carpet where he 'd knocked over the glass of water . |
| 17 | Through the slats of the shutters we saw the high , green sides of a ravine and a solitary tree fern growing luxuriantly , a living fossil from the coal forests of the Carboniferous . |
| 18 | Mr Dovaston said witnesses had told police they saw the two men shout to Magee to catch up with them . |
| 19 | , I expect one of those will be alright , were they stripy ones we saw the other day ? |
| 20 | When he too was injured , they kept each other company and during their conversations he saw the reflective , rather sad side to her character . |