Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] see [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But when they meet me , they may not see a kind creature who has helped them . |
| 2 | Are you really saying that you 'd rather see a rubbish tip than fairways ? ’ |
| 3 | He could not see the Wood family . |
| 4 | The party 's problem was that it was a Catholic organisation and could not see the class basis of the problems . |
| 5 | Place could not see the police presence on the river walk above his head , but he could probably guess it was there . |
| 6 | When he stood up he could just see a fire engine as if on the high seas diving and heaving towards him . |
| 7 | The tide was already on the turn , you could just see the stone margin of the path they had walked . |
| 8 | Although it was dark , I could still see the stone wall at the edge of the road . |
| 9 | Nathan could still see the preacher standing , shocked and speechless , on his box . |
| 10 | Yeremi could still see the tube wall quite clearly with his enhanced vision . |
| 11 | And I never found any embarrassment there because there was I always saw the wom woman , you could always see a woman chemist . |
| 12 | Behind the gun barrel , we could now see the tank crew sitting on the turret of the T-62 , one of them with a cloth tied round his forehead . |
| 13 | He hurried out into the garden but to his disappointment he could n't see a pear tree anywhere let alone one with a partridge in it . |
| 14 | From where he stood he could n't see the hospital wing . |
| 15 | But what about the sailors in the southern hemisphere — the part of the earth south of the Equator ? they could n't see the Pole Star , so what did they use to guide them ? |
| 16 | Working out the visibility was easier as we did have guidelines here — a tree on the other side of the airfield was at 1,000 yards , a distant farmhouse 2 miles , and if you could n't see the briefing room it was foggy . |
| 17 | The organ pipes are in the middle of the chancel and you could n't see the east window at the . |
| 18 | He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire . |
| 19 | I know it sounds crazy , but even as I watched this little boy , Jimbo , I thought I could actually see a muscle quiver . |
| 20 | The previous evening they had insisted on taking her to the cinema , ignoring her protests that she would rather see the Molière play at the Comédie Française , to watch Jacques Prévert 's film Les Enfants du Paradis . |
| 21 | Undertakers rarely advertised , for theirs was — and remains — a trade where discretion took precedence over high-profile marketing and one would not see an undertaker publishing testimonials from satisfied customers . |
| 22 | ‘ Barry , I ca n't see a goshdarn thing . ’ |
| 23 | I ca n't see the education committee with their lack of money paying for transport for children from here |
| 24 | I ca n't see the education committee , with their lack of money , paying for transport for children out here to go to hospital to do a garden |
| 25 | Gossips down in Houston insist that Compaq Computer Corp will announce its withdrawal from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative within a couple of weeks because its business is making very high volume personal computers , and it ca n't see the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines ever reaching those kinds of volumes ; no-one was available to comment at Compaq but its strategy has been shifting over the past year — the investment in Silicon Graphics Inc has been sold , and founder and president Rod Canion was ousted from the company after differences over strategy . |
| 26 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |
| 27 | Like you said you ca n't see the body language and fobbed off . |
| 28 | BRITISH motorists must be grateful this festive time to three ladies who will not see a Christmas day lunch . |
| 29 | He 's also figuring DEC has an unannounced ‘ modular computing ’ initiative that will ultimately see the Laser top out at 12 CPUs or more . |
| 30 | You may however see a chest drain on a general surgical ward . |