Example sentences of "see [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world . |
| 2 | I expect he 'll be flying over to Sweden to see Scotland in the European Championships . |
| 3 | Minton had first seen Ray in the musical Guys and Dolls . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 8 | But Coventry 's Bobby Gould sees Gibson as the ideal replacement for Kevin Gallacher , who seems destined for a £2 million move to Chelsea . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Wednesday 's John Sheridan sees Atkinson as the future England partner to Blackburn 's Alan Shearer . |
| 11 | He sees God as the unseen power pervading all things , the sum-total of life , the indefinable , the formless , the nameless . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He could see Chris in the little circle surrounding Finnegan 's ball . |
| 14 | I reckoned , however , that if I went back to Edinburgh , I could see Leslie for the occasional ‘ forty-eight hours ’ . |
| 15 | It now regards £500m as the minimum necessary to see BSB through the promotional expenditure of a launch and the purchase of programmes . |
| 16 | Ah , my dear , ’ she said , seeing Sophia at the front door , ‘ Here we are , you see , safe and sound . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 19 | He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden . |
| 20 | I saw Joseph by the back door , caught hold of the lamp he was carrying , and ran with it to the gate . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her . |
| 22 | He was on the pavement , waiting , when he saw Volkov on the opposite side of the road . |
| 23 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 24 | Socinus was a radical Reformation thinker who saw Rome as the great harlot of Revelation 17 . |
| 25 | He has been wanted by a string of clubs , including Manchester United , who last season saw Pearce as the final piece in a title jigsaw . |
| 26 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |
| 27 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 28 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 29 | She smoothed a weary hand across her eyes and then looked up and saw Luke over the far side of the room , gazing at her with impenetrable eyes . |
| 30 | In 1893 America was ready to see Columbus as the great discoverer , the man who laid the foundations for a nation of bold entrepreneurs . |