Example sentences of "[vb base] see [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I tend to see Malcolm 's marriage to Margaret as part of a process by which our king invited in a team of management consultants from the Continent in order to alienate the land even further from the people . |
| 2 | The Kurdish refugees want to see Saddam 's promises enforced by American power ; some of the 500,000 who fled to Turkey have drifted home , but not the 1m who fled to Iran . |
| 3 | I want to see Donald 's flag blowing in the wind . ’ |
| 4 | Without social interaction we begin to see life 's problems out of proportion . |
| 5 | He touched her arm , beckoning her down to his glittering eyes , and asked in a rattled whisper , ‘ Miz Boss Lady , you like see Joy 's cock ? ’ and was nearly knocked over by her abrupt straightening . |
| 6 | We go to see Jimmie 's pictures together . |
| 7 | We 've seen Pete 's reactions to disappointment . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've seen Caroline 's display ? ’ |
| 9 | Well I 've seen Halley 's comet and it does n't to me . |
| 10 | The pub 's east wall was also used for playing handball , he says ‘ like squash but without the racket ; I 've seen men 's hands running in blood after playing to a final . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have to see father 's lawyer this afteroon about the will . |
| 12 | Rather , we need to see Carol 's use of both LE and Creole as part of a deliberate ( though not necessarily conscious ) strategy of code switching for conversational ends . |
| 13 | Those who remember that membership of the Common Market was to be a bonanza , and who have seen Britain 's trade deficit with the Community rise inexorably , will rightly be sceptical of this idea . |
| 14 | But I have seen Catherine 's ghost . |
| 15 | By the end of the year the country had become a republic and the king was on trial for his life ; the Girondins were losing their command of the situation , and some critics have seen Wordsworth 's departure from the scene at this point as evidence that he foresaw their fall from power ( which took place in the summer of 1793 ) . |
| 16 | ICL has to say , if asked , that the way out of their present crisis is to have started 10 years ago — 10 years that by steady attrition rather than any headline-grabbing lay-offs have seen ICL 's workforce decline to 26,000 — from 31,000 only four years ago . |
| 17 | Recent historians of institutions have seen Anselm 's period as archbishop as a turning point in the relations between England and the papacy . |
| 18 | Already we have seen Eliot 's interest in the connection between the medicine men and Punch and Judy , as suggested by Cornford in The Origin of Attic Comedy . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's very creative , ’ says PWL managing director David Howells , one of the few music industry figures who have seen Kylie 's work . |
| 20 | Other nice expressions include an evil stare , ‘ schwing ! ’ ( if you have seen Wayne 's World ! ) and he 's always mopping his forehead . |
| 21 | ‘ I have seen Julie 's parents and they are obviously terribly upset . |
| 22 | It is adhered to by increasing numbers who have become disillusioned with British identity and have seen Paisley 's words about the traitorous nature of British governments become reality as protestant — loyalist domination in Ulster has been continuously eroded . |