Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] see [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crossing the hospital courtyard which divided the maternity wing from the general wards and administration building , hearing over and over in his head the words they had gently but coldly told him , the announcement of his son 's death , leaving Lili asleep , carefully sedated , he had lifted his eyes and seen Rufus Fletcher . |
| 2 | She opened her eyes and saw Rodier standing by the bed with the nurse hovering behind him . |
| 3 | When she opened her eyes and saw Patrick standing in the room she started up with a cry . |
| 4 | This applies to both offences and see offence I ( C ) 4 for ways to prove this point . |
| 5 | Benjamin was on the point of replying when we heard the clip-clop of horses ' hooves and saw Doctor Agrippa making his way slowly towards us ; his mount , a gentle cob , ambling along as if it was a balmy summer 's day . |
| 6 | Her dearest wish was to live another couple of years and see Neil Kinnock as prime minister . |
| 7 | Greg went quietly up the stairs and saw Hilary Seymour-Strachey , in his shirt-sleeves , gazing , grunting , altering positions , and generally acting like a first-time mother . |
| 8 | They were persons who had been brain-washed by years of experience of disengaging from colonies and saw Northern Ireland as another external colony from which Great Britain was destined to disengage in order to hand it back to the natives whom they assumed were the republican Irish of the island as a whole . |