Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | one of them said , you know , he said how , how the hell how the hell can they say which directions the fire 's coming from ? but they , I mean some of them were saying like this mate he run out , he was going across this patch of open space and the soldier obviously saw a soldier and as he did that apparently he got shot through there and out the other side of him . |
| 2 | Those who like their conservatism raw and their patriotism loud see a danger of blandness . |
| 3 | On this prompting the Base controller also saw a trace which led him to challenge the aircraft 's position report at BN . |
| 4 | Before the doctors or the consultant actually sees a patient , then |
| 5 | The canon also sees a demonstration of hypnotism causing an ‘ unusual form of blindness ’ when the men of Sodom were unable to see the angels in Lot 's house ( Genesis 19:11 ) . |
| 6 | In our fixation shift procedure , the infant initially sees a screen containing a central flashing face-like target , which is replaced by a contrast-reversing target 23 deg either right or left of centre . |
| 7 | Alerted by a slight sound , she again opened her eyes , turning her head slowly to see a cup and saucer being placed on a nearby small table . |
| 8 | There was an echo , and no man ever saw a ghost with a shadow , so why should a ghost 's voice have an echo ? |
| 9 | Modern secateurs are now so good , however , that professional opposition to them has virtually disappeared , and it is a rare sight indeed to see a knifesman carefully honing the curved blade with his special fine-grained carborundum stone , invariably kept in an oilskin tobacco pouch in his apron pocket . |
| 10 | ‘ Did his grandfather ever see a nome ? ’ he said . |
| 11 | The European community on the other hand also saw a growth of output of over twenty percent , twenty three point seven percent but that gave rise not to eighteen million but to only six million additional jobs and I just say to the honourable gentleman the lesson for Europe is to go further down the route that I have suggested of further deregulation and less bureaucracy and a stable economic framework , than to go down the route that he is advocating in his short address and question to me . |
| 12 | The problem was not evading capture — it would take a very alert human even to see a nome running at full speed , let alone catch one — but simply avoiding being trodden on by accident . |
| 13 | The philosophical Enlightenment of the eighteenth century onwards saw a change in mood on the part of many Protestant theologians . |
| 14 | So halvard , if youve actually seen a lot of him in action ( on the pitch ) then fair enough … but i would nt believe the hype mate . |