Example sentences of "they [vb past] see the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And little by little they came to see the great Christian doctrine that eternal sin must be , in the very nature of things , eternal punishment or eternal misery . |
| 2 | It only reminded her of how she and Trish had hooted with laughter when they 'd seen the engraved invitations that had gone out in three languages for this evening 's showing . |
| 3 | Police had hoped they 'd seen the last of the joyriding and the crowds who gather to see the stolen cars in action . |
| 4 | They liked seeing the old values reasserted . |
| 5 | Some said they had seen the quizzical , grey-whiskered faces staring up at them as they crouched on the two boards above the refuse pit , peering at the nervous men from beside the walls of the cubicles and showing no apprehension . |
| 6 | They had seen the young men too . |
| 7 | Teachers are unionized and a powerful enough group to prevent the decoupling of their salary levels from those of other public-sector employees , but none the less by 1985 they had seen the real value of their salaries fall to half their value a decade earlier . |
| 8 | The few other tourists who had been here had hurried for cover when they had seen the black sky approaching . |
| 9 | They had seen the recent administrative past and it had worked . |
| 10 | ‘ When we asked how they knew we were coming , they would solemnly say that they had seen the Little People lighting candles in all the windows . |
| 11 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 12 | Two girls sat down to make a picture together of the river they had seen the previous day . |
| 13 | Man is rational ; and they tended to see the one capacity as closely related to the other . |