Example sentences of "to see [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine .
2 ‘ It would be very sad to see Middlesbrough without first-class cricket . ’
3 I do n't think that that chance will come until your husband retires so , in the meantime , you must learn to see Germany as your home .
4 She looked up in surprise to see Jason with an unusually serious expression on his face .
5 The greatest treat though is to see Van with John Lee Hooker .
6 He wanted other states to see Romania as part of neither bloc .
7 ‘ I thought I 'd drop round to see Irena after work , ’ she said .
8 I went to see Sleepless in Seattle last night .
9 The Senegalese Armed Forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Mamadou Mansour Seck , had gone to see Taylor about the incident , accompanied by Maj.-Gen.
10 Mighty Quinn , made famous by Manfred Mann , was changed to Mighty Wyn as a tribute to Newcastle 's leaping centre forward , a Kinks ' song was amended to ‘ What are we living for , to see Sunderland in Division Four ’ and who can forget ‘ Half-a-sixpence is better than , Arthur Horsefield ? ’
11 It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf .
12 Terry arrived late on Friday night so on Saturday he went to see Sarah with an invitation to tea from his mother .
13 I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’
14 I went down to see Will at ten o'clock after
15 It was early evening when I got into London 's vehicular scrummage and I had plenty of time to see Toby in hospital .
16 The group came from the south of England to see Frankie in A Night At the Music Hall at the town 's Civic Theatre .
17 Yet at the same time , he needed each superpower to see Bucharest as a natural place for influencing the views of the other one and other players in the international game .
18 And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO .
19 Loretta decided she would have to abandon her attempt to see Veronica for the rest of the day .
20 Such gestures appealed to many Romanians , as they did to Western observers anxious to see Ceauşescu as a ‘ patriot ’ and reformer .
21 Still fastening buttons , she hobbled to the door in time to see Travis down the beach , waving his hands to attract its attention .
22 He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while .
23 The woman looked down on them for a moment ; not seeming to see Lucy at all , she was looking at Josie .
24 She used to regularly get tickets for Hancock 's Half Hour radio shows simply for the chance to see Ken at work — ‘ Men used to fight to escort me to the broadcasts . ’
25 People were constantly coming to see Ken in his dressing room .
26 Anne felt guilty that she had not attempted to see Kathleen after Ella 's injury .
27 ‘ I would love to have seen 400,000 kids coming along to see Kylie on this tour , but it just is not possible , ’ said Waterman .
28 It is only now , almost five years after the fact , that the US press corps and America 's allies are beginning to see Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for the hoax that it is .
29 Was n't that partly the reason why she had agreed to see André in the first place ?
30 A few days later Mr Churchill came to see Edward at Buckingham Palace .
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