Example sentences of "it [vb past] see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US State Department 's response was that it needed to see the blueprints on European defence before it could think of pouring concrete . |
| 2 | This did not mean that he was at all sympathetic to evolutionary ideas , which seemed crude and mechanical ; but he was not patient either with ‘ Bridgewater writing ’ , because it meant seeing the hand of God more in some things than others . |
| 3 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |
| 4 | On the contrary , Ligachev argued , it had seen the collectivisation of agriculture , the USSR 's emergence as the world 's second-largest economy and subsequently the defeat of Nazi Germany . |
| 5 | It had seen the East German poll as a possible stepping-stone to countrywide influence , but the results hardly look like that . |
| 6 | The BBC 's coverage of the election caused great offence to Mr Major and senior Tories , who voiced concern in private that it wanted to see the return of a Labour government to safeguard its future . |