Example sentences of "[adv prt] see the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't about to miss the parade , and went on to see the whole event , and photographed it — all the red flags , the guns , the cannons , the missiles , everything , including Black September Group marching . |
| 2 | School parties were bused in to see the existing power stations in action . |
| 3 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 4 | My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail . |
| 5 | Are you staying up to see the New Year in ? ’ |
| 6 | One Sunday my dad took us all up to see the new pit-head baths . |
| 7 | He was a tall , heavily built man , and I had to look up to see the bearded face . |
| 8 | He looked up to see the worried face of William Prime staring down at him . |
| 9 | And the doctor went up to see the old man and got him put in a hospital and that , in a mental hospital , for six weeks , right . |
| 10 | But no one looked up to see the dead man hanging from a branch near the top of the 30ft conifer , said police . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 12 | Cornish celebrities of his acquaintance included John Couch Adams , discoverer of the planet Neptune , and Mary Kelynack , renowned as the lady who , at the age of eighty , walked from Newlyn to London and back to see the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 13 | She tilted her head back to see the beamed ceiling , two storeys above then followed the line of the cedar staircase , its wooden carvings almost obliterated by cobwebs . |
| 14 | I glance in at the ASI — still reading 150 — then throw my heavy helmeted head back to see the white skyline creeping forward along the canopy . |
| 15 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 16 | But there was n't the , the erm ante natal care that there is these days , I mean there were no erm when you went round to se if you were a midwife and you went round to see the prospective mother you 'd say , now you are eating proper meals are n't you ? |
| 17 | The driver was oiling an axle box when he turned round to see the trim figure of a young lady with a small boy near the first compartment of the carriage next to the tender . |
| 18 | He put the phone down and turned round to see the whole family looking at him , open-mouthed . |
| 19 | I mind fine we all crowded round to see the old mole catcher with the white mole , mhm . |