Example sentences of "see [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 2 | He then went into the Army and did not see Minton for some time . |
| 3 | It was agreed that they would not see Minton for a while . |
| 4 | His eyes opened wide , and suddenly he could see Kirov in a new light . |
| 5 | You can see Ben at nursery ca n't you ? |
| 6 | He held it there , lowered his head , peeped into the room , smiling , wondering if he could see Fi from this angle . |
| 7 | Soon we could see Rona in detail and skirting Gealldruig Mhor , the outlying skerry to the south , we could see by the white-based cliffs that a heavy swell was running . |
| 8 | He could see Kathleen in front of the treatment table , clutching a stitch-cutter like a lifeline , and as the man lunged at her he threw himself forward and grappled with him , falling with him to the floor . |
| 9 | I can see , I can see Richard through the keyhole . |
| 10 | Harry did not look up , but continued paying out the flex until he rounded the corner of the deck-house and could see Richard without bothering to turn his head . |
| 11 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 12 | You can come back and see Josh in the morning — but do n't think you can march in here and wheedle your way back into my heart in half an hour — not this time ! ’ |
| 13 | And if you can see Jeff after the meeting I 'm sure he , he can take your names and coordinate that . |
| 14 | And then on Thursday Bill 's coming to play with you and you 're going to nursery and then on Friday you 'll see Lucy in the day time |
| 15 | Van Cheele decided to go and see Cunningham at once . |
| 16 | She could see Dorcas in the back of the cab , explaining what various levers did . |
| 17 | ‘ Did you see Bina at the horse show ? |
| 18 | He could see Ruth at the door of his office , frowning , shaking her head , looking back over her shoulder . |
| 19 | He could see Vasco on the street , fourteen years old , face like a guitar . |
| 20 | But '76 did see Marley in the US album charts , a hitherto unimaginable feat . |
| 21 | ‘ I say to people to come and see Ireland for themselves because if they come they 'll never want to leave — like others who have been here from the North-East of England . |
| 22 | I can see Wheeler in there . |
| 23 | Frederica could not see Alexander at all : indeed she had noted he was not there : she stared around and around now at colourless air and sand as though he might rise from them like a mirage . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll see Isobel from here . |
| 25 | In the days when she had first known him she had wondered idly whether she might see Rupert round here , ‘ going in ’ or ‘ coming out ’ , though she was not clear when this might be expected or even what he might have been doing . |
| 26 | I did n't see Ted for a while after that . |
| 27 | Let's see Pythagoras on this first one no . |
| 28 | if you do n't want it all did I see Robert with you the other day ? |
| 29 | To really see Canada in depth , combine both of our tours into one great Canadian Discovery , a comprehensive tour of this vast country and its fascinating sights . |
| 30 | Way in the background , Lucy could see Josie with her back to the door as she cleaned up around the makeup chair . |