Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they had not seen the Harbour Master 's orders themselves , there seemed a distinct possibility that all ‘ normal ’ use of the water was about to end . |
| 2 | Their guides took them by a route well to the west of the main Annandale road , round the hill of Trailtrow , although they did not see it , avoiding the Brydekirk area , and on down the winding valley of a small stream running south-eastwards . |
| 3 | Although they have only seen the creature far away , it is exactly like the hell-hound of the Baskerville story . |
| 4 | Legend has it that , during the obligatory pre-signing wine and dine sesh , The ‘ Weed boys insisted they share the food , as there was more on one plate than they 'd ever seen before . |
| 5 | From almost every hilltop it was possible to see the great column of smoke , still far , but much nearer than they had ever seen it before . |
| 6 | When the olive-skinned Valentino was seen kidnapping a white girl and taking her to his tent where he seduced her , cinema audiences were treated to a franker exposé of naked lust on the screen than they had ever seen before . |
| 7 | Through the gardens towards the house came Mr Craven , looking happier than they had ever seen him . |
| 8 | In addition their father had told them that he wanted to speak to them in his study afterwards , and although he had given no indication what chastisement he planned , they knew from the severity of his expression that he was angrier than they had ever seen him before . |
| 9 | Subconsciously they 're frightened , so they put off seeing a doctor . ’ |
| 10 | Birds , like planes , usually face into the wind , so they do not see the plane coming . |
| 11 | If they went on seeing each other , would they not eventually produce the same complicatedly beautiful pattern of commitment as her friends had ? |
| 12 | However , one ‘ kinship defender ’ interviewed did speak of children ‘ having intense feelings for their own parents even if they 've never seen them ’ . |
| 13 | They would n't make those weird garden ornaments if they 'd ever seen a real nome . ’ |
| 14 | Glasses in hand , the chattering groups mixed and mingled , broke and re-formed , greeted each other with glad cries as if they had n't seen each other for years , not just that afternoon . |
| 15 | Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all . |
| 16 | Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all . |
| 17 | Mind you some of them looked as if they had never seen a woman before . |
| 18 | Some people worry that learners will object if they do n't see the whole programme . |
| 19 | Men-at-arms … four of them … better if they do n't see you . |
| 20 | See money 's all right they probably love the money you can bring in but if they do n't see you to spend it or to share it . |
| 21 | There was a phrase screeched into the microphone by a hoarse-voiced member of Socialist Workers ' Students ' Organization : ‘ The government must be deaf , dumb and blind if they do not see the madness of this war . ’ |
| 22 | If capitalist enterprises see the prospect of adequate profits then they will borrow investment funds without any government having to insist , and if they do not see investment as profitable then it is useless to try to force them . |
| 23 | If they have not seen it for themselves then it can not be true . |
| 24 | I do n't know if they have even seen the baby ’ . |
| 25 | In 1965 , in the Brezhnev era to which many old-style Communists were to look back with fond nostalgia , an Englishman observing the May Day festival on Red Square wrote : ‘ The tourists , even the Americans , are delighted : they clap , cheer , photograph , and at the end simply gasp , as if they have just seen the greatest show on earth … |
| 26 | That same look full understanding , unwelcome wonder — as if they have just seen everything , even the figure in the dream with his white coat and his black boots and , in his wake , a night sky full of souls . |
| 27 | If a skewbald or piebald horse is introduced into a group of other solid coloured or monochromed horses — chestnuts , bays , greys , browns , whites , and blacks — the solid coloured horses are likely to go quite silly , as if they have never seen anything so terrible and exciting in all their lives before ! |
| 28 | That 's right , cos they 've never seen |
| 29 | Cos they had n't seen any danger to it I suppose . |
| 30 | So they do n't bother having scarecrows this time of year cos they do n't see in do n't put anything in the ground ! |