Example sentences of "[adv] see [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 2 | A drag coefficient of just 0.30 helps the Safrane to a achieve a top speed of 129mph , which is good enough to see off the Granada ( 123mph ) , but this looks distinctly average when every other car on our rivals page can top 130mph . |
| 3 | In some cases gastric metaplasia was only seen at the tips of ( stunted ) villi ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 4 | It is only on these rare occasions that I see zander fighting deep down in the water for most are only seen at the netting stage due to the colour of the water that they are generally caught in . |
| 5 | Unlike the trams , they are only seen during the summer season . |
| 6 | As a translator he was modest , exhorting and beseeching those of his readers ‘ who are better seen in the Scriptures than I , and have higher gifts of grace to interpret the Scripture ’ to correct his work . |
| 7 | As of mid-January , there was 50 per cent more over the northern hemisphere than Antarctica — hitherto seen as the focus of ozone depletion . |
| 8 | In fact , it is basically seen as the professionals banding together to protect their own — especially so when set against the various Royal College of Surgeons ' statements that testing of patients after operative accidents is reasonable whether or not the patient agrees . |
| 9 | This is clearly enough seen in the case of differing individuals , and also in that of differing cultures . |
| 10 | Finally , after Mr Luciano Pavarotti and the entire leadership of the rest of the world had appeared on the wall for Mr Major , a modest , smiling , bespectacled figure was suddenly seen on the stairs . |
| 11 | They can obviously see in the future |
| 12 | We could only see through the windows |
| 13 | Mrs Nicholas Beaumont , whose husband is Clerk of the Course , and whom I only saw in the distance ; Mr and Mrs Oliver Sherwood , Major and Mrs Peter Wiggin , Mr and Mrs Tim Dawson , Mr Harry Middleton , Mrs Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie , Colonel and Mrs Tommy Wallis , and their daughter Mrs Charles Baker ; Mr and Mrs John Guest , Mrs Tom Scott , Mr Peter Dimmock , and Mrs George Beeby . |
| 14 | When painting Cornish scenes Minton had been aware of the precedent set by Christopher Wood and The Times rightly saw in The Harbour an attempt to translate a Christopher Wood theme ‘ into the tragic idiom of modern painters ’ . |
| 15 | Hailed by Sir David Wilson , the Governor of Hong Kong , as " a good agreement for Hong Kong " , the memorandum was widely seen as the UK acceding to China 's demands for a greater say in Hong Kong 's affairs , although Sir David claimed that it would not give China a veto over the Hong Kong government . |
| 16 | The arrest was widely seen as the response of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed to the PBS 's defection from the ruling coalition before the October 1990 elections [ see pp. 37780-81 ] ; the PBS had won a comfortable majority in the Sabah Assembly [ see p. 37612 ] . |
| 17 | The parties of the centre-right coalition suffered substantial losses in nationwide local elections on Oct. 18 in what was widely seen as the voters ' initial verdict on the austerity measures . |
| 18 | At the top she was luckily seen by the farmer , who came striding to meet her , letting out an exclamation as he saw that the object in her arms was one of his lambs . |
| 19 | Mostly seen at the salesrooms , though ; that 's where all the heavy-duty stuff 's on offer . |
| 20 | But Baldersdale does have one extra visual blessing rarely seen in the Dales — water , Hury Reservoir was built a century or so ago and it stretches sinuously up a major portion of the valley . |
| 21 | Very occasionally a much darker red fish is shipped although this form is now rarely seen in the UK market . |
| 22 | As you walk through the streets of Funchal , particularly the small , narrow , side streets , you can see many artisans practising crafts now rarely seen in the mass-production economies of northern Europe and North America . |
| 23 | He must have come from the country for the lava-lava was rarely seen in the towns , however small . |
| 24 | It was a woodcock , a bird rarely seen in the open . |
| 25 | Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention . |
| 26 | A world little seen by the West until now and on view at Galerie Carla Stützer until 31 October is that of Czech photography of the 1930s and '40s , by photographers Feyfar , Chochola , Medkovà , Novák , Lehovec , Berka and Reichmann , all of whom ( except Reichmann ) are still living and working , and many of whom attended the opening in September . |
| 27 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
| 28 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 29 | Midst a lot of no-balls , which helped no end , they picked their way though the furious gunfire , finding the odd boundary , encouraging each other , and finally seeing off the follow-on a ball before tea . |
| 30 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |