Example sentences of "see [noun] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we would tell her the same story , in the same words , like a folk-tale : the ride on the motorway , the meal in the restaurant , her going to sleep and waking up to see sheep on the Derbyshire hills . |
| 2 | After seeing action in the Suez campaign of 1956 , it saw service with 57S in a training role , with the remainder of its service life being spent with 14 Flotille , the last Aeronavale unit to use the type , before being retired in 1964 . |
| 3 | HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria . |
| 4 | HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria . |
| 5 | Indeed , it was the first motor car seen west of the Shannon . |
| 6 | Recently Stornoway customs officers warned Danish colleagues of a suspicious vessel seen west of the Hebrides . |
| 7 | Haig had seen action in the Sudan in 1898 and at the Battle of Omdurman , where he served with the Egyptian cavalry . |
| 8 | Before joining the Cape Town school , John had seen performances by the Cape Town Ballet Club , which paid its first visit to Johannesburg for a week at the Empire Theatre from 6 December 1943 . |
| 9 | As Randolph Churchill so eloquently described in The Fight for the Tory Leadership , Macmillan had seen Hailsham on the Monday before the Conference and indicated that in the event of retirement he would support his candidature . |
| 10 | Connections : I 'd seen Nevil at Sedgeley House ; I 'd seen Jo at the Mimosa Club where Nevil was supposed to work , or at least beat up barmen . |
| 11 | Sick also suggested that several people claimed to have seen Bush at the Paris meeting , although he admitted that he was not yet convinced of the veracity of this aspect of the affair . |
| 12 | He says he 's only seen sunflowers in the United States so he went home and got his camera to take some pictures . |
| 13 | Variscan folding and thrusting can , however , be seen north of the Midi Overthrust , and the general view of workers in the U.K. is that here the Variscan Front can not be identified with a single laterally-continuous thrust plane , though locally it may be ( Hancock 1983 ) . |
| 14 | In August 1981 every piece of the city 's urban common carried a population of wall butterflies ( Lasiommosta megera ) , the first time this species had been seen north of the Tyne this century . |
| 15 | AS YOU CAN SEE CLUBS THROUGHOUT THE U.K. ARE CHOOSING FASTRAX FOR QUALITY CLUB VESTS . |
| 16 | But '76 did see Marley in the US album charts , a hitherto unimaginable feat . |
| 17 | I could see the Wood to my right and way across the Paddock I could see Waters in the Shogun patrolling the edge of the Orchard . |
| 18 | Morgan sees similarities between the North Sea and his new charge , and not just as providers of the bulk of the lifeblood for BP investment in new exploration opportunities worldwide . |
| 19 | Oxford are also playing at Tranmere in the league next saturday … you can see highlights of the Swindon Town game on Central 's midweek sports special … and no Hereford fan should be missing from Edgar Street on Wednesday with Vinny Jones and the Crazy Gang in town … finally Swindon have put last season 's top scorer Craig Maskell up for sale … he wants first team football |
| 20 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
| 21 | One must resist seeing Bakhtin as the US Cavalry , riding in to rescue a threatened humanism from howling poststructuralists . |
| 22 | He saw action in the Pacific , was wounded and was awarded the Purple Heart , and always remained very proud of his Marine background . |
| 23 | Some days ago I saw pictures of the Baghdad suspension bridge being destroyed . |
| 24 | She says the setting is lovely , but when we saw hime at the Albert Hall he was superb — he 's not as good this evening . |
| 25 | I first saw Seve at the PGA Championship , which he won , at Royal St Georges in 1975 . |
| 26 | But he saw Baldwin on the Sunday morning and told him that he had no doubt that Curzon would be chosen , although his own turn would come in due course . |
| 27 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |
| 28 | Visitors also see part of the Bournville packaging plant , as well as displays on distribution , marketing and the famous Cadbury advertisements . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly , a number of former Swiss Vampires appear following the sales earlier this year ( see News in the March , April and May issues ) and include a two-seater recently delivered to Jet Heritage to add to the single-seater delivered earlier this year . |