Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manager had watched Rangers play Dundee United at Ibrox last month and has therefore seen Walter Smith 's side put under pressure over two games — a two-goal lead having been lost in Glasgow before Ally McCoist eventually scored the winner . |
| 2 | Then we would tell her the same story , in the same words , like a folk-tale : the ride on the motorway , the meal in the restaurant , her going to sleep and waking up to see sheep on the Derbyshire hills . |
| 3 | Lawyers , basically , are trained for and used to an adversary system — where they act either for the prosecution or plaintiff , or for the defence — and seem always to see things in terms of guilt or innocence . |
| 4 | He said he heard a car engine racing behind him and turned round to see headlights . |
| 5 | With the sexes thus reunited in the obscure origins of the word ‘ Hooligan ’ , let us pay a find visit in our tour of these troubled streets and pop in to see Mrs Jenkins and her family of Bean Street , South London , on the occasion or that fateful Bank Holiday . |
| 6 | Then around eight we would get cleaned up a bit and drive over to see Nigel , a forty-mile round trip . |
| 7 | You start the weekend like a whirling dervish as you get jobs done in double quick time and rush around seeing people , making decisions and generally working wonders . |
| 8 | He was aware of a small noise at his side and looked round to see Detective Inspector Kate Miskin looking , not at the corpse , but at him . |
| 9 | Ruth felt her own arm gripped , and looked round to see Fand — but the Woman 's head was turned away , avoiding her gaze . |
| 10 | She replaced the phone on its rest and looked up to see Myra gazing at her , a concerned look on her face . |
| 11 | I took a couple of steps forward , then heard something whispered from behind me , and looked back to see Janice hugging Ash , almost violently . |
| 12 | They halted on a rocky ridge where heather poked up through gaps in the stones , and looked back to see Ralarth a green patch below them . |
| 13 | She 'd go and offer to help , when she 'd changed and popped in to see Lucy … |
| 14 | Well in the end she took a stack and went in to see Miss and Miss tried to change the subject , subj |
| 15 | He shrugged , and went in to see Hester . |
| 16 | Horsley passed the test and went off to see Thornton , who was still simmering and had nothing but dire warnings for him . |
| 17 | This body of thought , sometimes called Neo-Hegelism , which had been introduced into Britain by Benjamin Jowett , Green 's tutor at Balliol , rejected the dominant philosophical view , derived from the Enlightenment , which was ‘ empiricist , individualistic , utilitarian ’ , and chose instead to see reality as ‘ an organic interconnected whole , no part of which was independent of the rest ’ . |
| 18 | Try and get over the bumps. as well that , I go into work and do n't see Teresa that often you 'd think she 'd have the money ready on Friday morning would n't you ? |
| 19 | He then went into the Army and did not see Minton for some time . |
| 20 | He did not want any services and did not see counselling help as a service a social worker might offer , nor did he want to share any grieving for his wife . |
| 21 | But Mr Watson said that Mr Ross saw the briefcase from the corner of his eye and did not see Mr Garvey . |
| 22 | Maurin was absorbed in his client and did not see Rain enter . |
| 23 | I returned to Sheffield and Pam and did n't see Scotland or my Mom again for several years . |
| 24 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 25 | It was new to these parts and had never seen nomes before . |
| 26 | Spend the morning doing some sightseeing , pop back to the ship for lunch and come in to see Timothy then ? |
| 27 | Many of these grew wildly over the past few years , and have now seen business vanish . |
| 28 | When they said it was almost a certainty , I made an excuse and nipped out to see Purvis . |
| 29 | I beat Cameron a couple of weeks later , but did n't see Frank . |