Example sentences of "[adv] see the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century . |
| 2 | Stand close enough to see the column form and you will probably be pelted with near-boiling water . |
| 3 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
| 4 | The nodes or links point to text blocks , but the semantic net can be seen without necessarily seeing the text blocks . |
| 5 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 6 | A foolish general might surround his Pump Wagon with friendly units only to see the machine crunch through his own lines in the first turn ! |
| 7 | They raced onto the platform , followed a minute or two later by a panting Naseby , only to see the railway train , now bearing Miss Throgmorton , steaming slowly away , enveloping them in white smoke . |
| 8 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 9 | The man had been in the wood and had perhaps seen the animal cemetery . |
| 10 | Granny was seated in her rocking chair facing the fireplace , but her back was to me and I could only see the paper curlers she had in her hair . |
| 11 | We only saw the adult shearwaters at sea and they looked a bit like a small Manx shearwater , but with a brownish tinge to the upper parts . |
| 12 | The formation of the Film Society in 1925 , which aimed to make British filmmakers aware of the creative possibilities of the medium by screening the most artistically adventurous films being made in Russia , Germany and elsewhere , had caused some confusion in the commercial film industry , which rightly saw the Film Society 's platform as a blast against the prevailing aesthetic orthodoxies . |
| 13 | But oh , Nicodemus if you only see him as a teacher you only see the minute part of me ! |
| 14 | You only see the business side of him — that is , apart from last night , ’ he added with a meaningful smile . |
| 15 | And I always watched Wimbledon on the telly , even if it was just to see the lady players in those short skirts ( apart from old ‘ muscles ’ Navratilova ! ) . |
| 16 | ’ I am going to take you to the pictures tonight to see The Gold Rush . ’ |
| 17 | Had I just seen the DOS version , I 'd have been a little niggled about some of the design parameters , but very impressed at the functionality , with an overall favourable opinion . |
| 18 | oh , I 've just seen the word David , I have just seen the word David |
| 19 | oh , I 've just seen the word David , I have just seen the word David |
| 20 | Erm what it is we 're a press agency working for the national papers and about eighteen months ago we did Em Emma 's story for the Sunday People erm and now I 've just seen the Evening Mail today erm and I 've got , you know the how she 's grown nine inches in the past eighteen months , er and just thought the story might er might take another outing and I just wondered if it was possible f for you to help us contact her er her mother at all ? |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd best see the College Secretary , sir . |
| 22 | She can no longer see the water maiden . |
| 23 | These whirlwind developments were a long time in the planning but the results came with staggering speed and remarkable good nature and co-operation which finally sees the rugby world totally united once again but with a new combined force lurking below the equator . |
| 24 | The tide was already on the turn , you could just see the stone margin of the path they had walked . |
| 25 | If you look closely at L'Escargot by Matisse in the Tate Gallery you can just see the pencil marks round the collage pieces . |
| 26 | But I can just see the Sun headline , a fitting follow up to ‘ Paddy Pants-down ’ , to wit : ‘ Is Neil A Nancy Boyo ? ’ |
| 27 | The only of the government is that they waived it and the only other way is the A A who just see the pound notes coming in . |
| 28 | But let's see just see the number plate on it underneath there the |
| 29 | Although it was dark , I could still see the stone wall at the edge of the road . |
| 30 | Non-train ticket holders can still see the road traction engine display at Swanage at £1 for adults and just 50 pence for children . |