Example sentences of "see [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it still gives you a pang to see performers of the calibre of Stephen Moore , Sian Phillips and Sheila Steafel trapped voluntarily in a vehicle heading nowhere . |
| 2 | Similarly , the cars of ramblers who do n't like to see bikes on the hills are , by weight of numbers , forcing cyclists off the road . |
| 3 | We found these very interesting and should be glad to see copies of the material you mentioned as about to go to print . |
| 4 | He prefers to see believers as the heirs to the one Abrahamic covenant which inaugurated the Old Testament people of God ( Acts 3:25 ) . |
| 5 | If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ? |
| 6 | I believe that this application for a residence order is yet another step in this game and that neither parent has been able or willing to see matters from the children 's point of view or in terms of their feelings , experiences and level of understanding . |
| 7 | We should distinguish between Ben Jonson 's desire to confirm his authority over his Workes — collecting and seeing texts through the press , attempting to control what was ascribed to him and how these texts were to be viewed , even trying to restrict his readership — and circumstances where such authorial interventions are absent . |
| 8 | Even Mr Sugden made himself available to meet the visitor , ready to assume that here was the returning warrior , eager to see areas of the country which only he could recommend . |
| 9 | But I began to see limitations in the amount I could give . |
| 10 | The faster counting could then lead to fewer actually seen nuclei in the BrdU assay compared with PCNA . |
| 11 | Probably they did n't see a thing , and if they did , well , they 've both seen blokes in the bath before now — ’ |
| 12 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 13 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's the bird with the two Afghans , ’ said Arthur , who had seen pictures of the dogs in the papers . |
| 15 | He had seen pictures of the City . |
| 16 | She had seen pictures in the newspaper that Mrs Parvis had delivered every day of men and women who 'd been kept locked up in a camp till the Americans came and found them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Previous minorities had seen squabbles over the distribution of power , but no young king had ever been deposed . |
| 19 | Previous minorities had seen squabbles over the distribution of power , but no young king had ever been deposed . |
| 20 | We have seen convulsions in the currency markets , bloody conflict in the former Yugoslavia and economic slowdown across Europe . |
| 21 | No one had ever seen rapids like the ones down here . |
| 22 | The last ten years have seen reforms in the education system greater than probably ever before , culminating in the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
| 23 | Well , what it 's all about is that er , the insurers have seen things on the telly etcetera and horrified with the result , |
| 24 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
| 25 | I have seen males of the genus Nymphon on the shores of Britain carrying as many as six bundles of eggs , each from a different female . |
| 26 | EMPLOYEES MAY have seen stories in the press recently about how much local government is going to cost but may not be aware the Council staff provided information which was quoted in the controversy . |
| 27 | Windows and its applications are notorious for the creation of temporary files — if you 've ever crashed out of Windows you may have seen files with the extension . |
| 28 | I have seen details of the Fylde Coast Bike Ride in my son 's copy of Bike Events and , as clerk to Nether Wyresdale Parish Council ( which is centred on the village of Scorton ) , I am concerned about what look like mistakes in the advertised route and final destination . |
| 29 | Some of you may have seen leaflets about the knitting competition which is being run on behalf of the Stroke Association . |
| 30 | He says he 's only seen sunflowers in the United States so he went home and got his camera to take some pictures . |