Example sentences of "see [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was n't that partly the reason why she had agreed to see André in the first place ? |
| 2 | Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world . |
| 3 | I expect he 'll be flying over to Sweden to see Scotland in the European Championships . |
| 4 | Minton had first seen Ray in the musical Guys and Dolls . |
| 5 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 6 | After their previous performances against Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday , it was surprising to see Coventry on the defensive early in the game as County went close through Williams , Wilson and Devlin . |
| 7 | He had already been to see Mussolini in the previous year and had been advised to call his New Party ‘ Fascist ’ but to play down its military organisation . |
| 8 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 9 | A few days later Keith Meerza sees Christopher for the last time . |
| 10 | But Coventry 's Bobby Gould sees Gibson as the ideal replacement for Kevin Gallacher , who seems destined for a £2 million move to Chelsea . |
| 11 | ‘ I have put my Spirit upon him ; he will bring forth justice to the nations ’ says God through the prophet And now the Spirit had come , and Mark 's account of the baptism makes it abundantly clear that he sees Jesus as the Messianic Son and the Suffering Servant , equipped or his … stupendous task with the Spirit of God promised for the end-time . |
| 12 | Wednesday 's John Sheridan sees Atkinson as the future England partner to Blackburn 's Alan Shearer . |
| 13 | He sees God as the unseen power pervading all things , the sum-total of life , the indefinable , the formless , the nameless . |
| 14 | There 's little doubt the Commonwealth sees France as the main target of the mission , but as a mainly English speaking organization , its influence on President Mitterand may be limited so the French speakers among them will be pressed into service . |
| 15 | He could see Chris in the little circle surrounding Finnegan 's ball . |
| 16 | I reckoned , however , that if I went back to Edinburgh , I could see Leslie for the occasional ‘ forty-eight hours ’ . |
| 17 | It now regards £500m as the minimum necessary to see BSB through the promotional expenditure of a launch and the purchase of programmes . |
| 18 | Ah , my dear , ’ she said , seeing Sophia at the front door , ‘ Here we are , you see , safe and sound . ’ |
| 19 | To see Portillo as the chief axeman even sent shudders down the spine of some Tory back-benchers who argued for keeping large areas of the welfare state out of the Government 's review , particularly health and pensions . |
| 20 | For his summer holiday he went with Henry Legerton to Positano , seeing Italy for the first time , and sent a card to Hanns : ‘ We have lounged like lizards . |
| 21 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 22 | He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden . |
| 23 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 24 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 25 | Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’ |
| 26 | I saw Joseph by the back door , caught hold of the lamp he was carrying , and ran with it to the gate . |
| 27 | ‘ I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her . |
| 28 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
| 30 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |