Example sentences of "[vb past] see [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 2 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 3 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 4 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 5 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 6 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 7 | About 200 people reported seeing some kind of craft landing near the base in 1980 . |
| 8 | So in 1818 when a doctor called Herbert was told of a young man living on the island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands off the north of Scotland who had been deaf and blind from birth , he hastened to see this object of curiosity for himself . |
| 9 | I wonder if you 'd seen much change in it if you went back now |
| 10 | There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant . |
| 11 | He 'd seen similar paths near Farnborough . |
| 12 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 13 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 14 | He 'd seen many changes in the penal system as a whole and Whitely in particular during his days as Governor at the prison . |
| 15 | She was a make-up artist , for goodness ' sake — she 'd seen any number of half-naked male actors in her time , but she 'd never reacted like this before . |
| 16 | The woman that she 'd seen last night at the top of the stairs was nowhere around , and Lucy knew better than to ask . |
| 17 | And this astonished him , because he 'd seen this kind of thing at home . |
| 18 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 19 | I guess he 'd seen American officers on TV the whole time during the Viet Nam war . |
| 20 | She 'd seen some posters in the town and was curious . |
| 21 | I just happened to see these selection of pots no I think there these fancy ones more |
| 22 | It was a short stay , but the year was to be an important one , for during it Louis-Napoleon began to see new ways in which his devotion to the Bonapartist cause might be developed . |
| 23 | I began to see another face in the posters . |
| 24 | But in February 1681 many witnesses began to see more advantage in making themselves acceptable to the government than to the Whigs , and in stating that attempts had been made to suborn them to give evidence . |
| 25 | I kept seeing this leer of his , the leer of a wary yokel , reflected in the numerous little mirrors set around Herta 's marriage crown ( traditional : to ward off evil spirits , and so on ) . |
| 26 | She struggled to see both sides of the story , but it was hard , very hard , because although she felt compassion for Jamie she also felt anger : he had almost killed her father . |
| 27 | Apollinaire appeared to see complete abstraction as the goal . |
| 28 | Employers in general appeared to see ageing people as a national responsibility rather than as their immediate concern . |
| 29 | I remembered seeing similar crosses in other Irish homes I had visited , always above a door . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , this roughly delineated period did see major transformations in the role of sexuality , and the book , as a whole , traces some of the major shifts in this process . |