Example sentences of "[vb past] see [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing waiting in the yard , while another pony was being saddled , Gabriel asked to see the monastery chapel . |
| 2 | I expected to see the laurel leaf in the back you know |
| 3 | Never one to sit behind a desk if he could help it , he tried to see the battle front for himself , and was severely wounded . |
| 4 | Captain Woolridge on the Sir Robert Sale , rather further away , reported seeing the eruption column rising above the volcano : ‘ . |
| 5 | VERY FEW things in life beat seeing a steam locomotive in action . |
| 6 | Now , as the son came to see the marble bust for the last time , court photographers crowded around to capture the poignancy of the son saying goodbye , presumably with a sense of terrible failure , to the father for whom he had never been good enough . |
| 7 | A large crowd came to see the rally start at White Waltham on a cold and windy March 25 last year . |
| 8 | Cardiff fumbled to where he 'd seen a light switch , began to reach for it … and then stopped . |
| 9 | She 'd firmly resisted her mother 's oft-repeated efforts to tempt her with the power-packed vegetable which she 'd seen the singing sailor-man so often greedily guzzle straight from the can . |
| 10 | His eyes looked across to Morse 's : ‘ And he said he 'd seen the Torbay Express at Didcot , did n't he ? |
| 11 | I could hardly remember having muffins before , although I 'd seen the muffin man in his white apron , a towel over his arm and a tray of muffins every Sunday afternoon . |
| 12 | It was the first time I 'd seen an SS uniform , you know . |
| 13 | He began seeing a Hollywood writer , Florrie Christmas , whom he took to Jamaica , where he drank himself into a stupor daily . |
| 14 | The Manager of the Grand Theatre , Leeds , went to see a school dance production , and was impressed by the quality of the work and offered his theatre to the educational establishments so that they would try to reach a wider audience . |
| 15 | I 've , I 've just been reading here some books that I 've got upstairs , and stuff , and I I I went to see one of erm Shakespeare 's erm , I went to see a Midnight Summer 's Dream |
| 16 | I went to see a debt counsellor and she agreed to come to the bank with me . |
| 17 | While Julie was still in hospital after Maisie was born , Grant went to see the film Buster in which Julie played Great Train Robber Buster Edward 's wife . |
| 18 | Well I went to see the Chippendales right and I 've never seen there 's seventeen |
| 19 | ‘ I was living in a council flat with two young children and I went to see the housing boss , which was him , to ask for a bigger place . |
| 20 | During their time in London , which was a happy one , he and Grace went to see the Diaghilev Ballet and also Pavlova 's company . |
| 21 | Owen went to see the District Chief afterwards . |
| 22 | On Wednesday 14 October 1953 at 12 noon the Trustees gathered to see a steel box , 8″ x 6″ x 3″ , specially made by Portadown Foundry Ltd , placed in a cavity in the foundation stone and firmly sealed . |
| 23 | I have n't seen the re final reply that went from er the Maxwell organisation to er I M R O but I did see a draft reply . |
| 24 | Anyhow if someone did see the match Id be interested to hear what happened possession wise during the match … who was in control etc . |
| 25 | As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " . |
| 26 | Well the head lad was a , er the head lad had to see the head lad 's er , job was to be there first in the morning and the last off the place at night . |
| 27 | One day , Jimmy Coutts cycled in to work ( he ‘ lived out ’ with his wife and young family in a village near Cambridge ) , and said that he had seen a telegraph boy delivering a telegram at a house opposite his , where he knew the wife of one of the air crew officers at Oakington lived . |
| 28 | She had seen a horror film once about an archaeologist in Egypt . |
| 29 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 30 | The Falkirk teenager had seen a shopping trolley being thrown on to the line from a bridge and knew that a passenger train was only minutes away . |