Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first motor car they had ever seen . |
| 2 | Of course , banks still have to maintain adequate liquidity , but in practice they do not see a clear-cut dividing line between liquid and non-liquid assets . |
| 3 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 4 | But it was larger than any hound they had ever seen . |
| 5 | They all fancied him and thought he was the handsomest boy they had ever seen … . ’ |
| 6 | Sam thought for a second he could smell damp straw — ’ … and carried many miles to a place they have never seen before and from which they can never return . |
| 7 | AMAZED American doctors say Lester Piggott is the fittest 56-year-old they have ever seen . |
| 8 | There was , however , another very similar site in the area , which was really better than the site they had already seen . |
| 9 | Without the resurrection they do not see how the death of Jesus achieves much at all . |
| 10 | The most marvellous smile they 'd ever seen , the biggest in the world . |
| 11 | They do n't see the person they do n't see the er the they 're kept separate but erm the they are rehearsed . |
| 12 | Those who think that ideas consist of images which are formed in us by the concourse of bodies … regard ideas as lifeless pictures on a board , and preoccupied thus with this misconception they do not see that an idea , insofar as it is an idea , involves affirmation or negation . |
| 13 | Someone said it was the worst paper they had ever seen . |
| 14 | They were then asked to recall the story they had just seen in either sign ( deaf and bilinguals ) or in speech ( hearing people ) . |
| 15 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 16 | But it was not a man they had ever seen before . |
| 17 | It was the most impressive catapult they had ever seen and were proud of it . |
| 18 | I work a part of the river they 've never seen . ’ |
| 19 | Deceptively heavy eyelids gave her face an air of sleepy sensuality which boyfriends vowed was the most tantalising thing they 'd ever seen , but which she always felt quite at odds with her true feelings . |
| 20 | The team from St Tiggywinkles say it 's the worst disaster they 've ever seen . |
| 21 | For most children , this is the first time they 've ever seen Reindeer . |
| 22 | While the Poles appreciated German fears about the threat posed to Central Europe by a rise of Soviet power they did not see that they would be serving Poland 's interests by agreeing to Hitler 's demands . |