Example sentences of "see [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patten is anxious to see MFN retained as the majority of investment in China is from Hong Kong , and how he uses his influence in the talks will be critical . |
| 2 | The value of such exposure is difficult to measure but , when three of the company 's craft demonstrators recently returned from tours of Japan , they all reported that an amazing number of people approached them to say they had seen Wedgwood featured on the Did You Really Know It ? programme during October . |
| 3 | This inquiry was from a third-year pupil who had seen Prestel demonstrated in the information skills course where there is an emphasis on career information and the pupils use the large collection of Career materials in the library . |
| 4 | The Bank Holiday clash with Leicester could see Swindon promoted to the Premier League . |
| 5 | Across the gloomy interior , Tallis could see Scathach crouched by the straw mattress , his arm around the back of the old man 's head . |
| 6 | So for a second it seemed the most natural thing in the world when the ships airlock suddenly opened , and I stepped out of my cabin to see Sergia framed in the lock , with two male Ardakkeans behind her . |
| 7 | Jeffries had wanted to see Baxter flogged through the streets of London , but his fellow justices would n't allow so harsh a sentence . |
| 8 | An extrapolation of this responsibility saw Hermes designated as the conductor of the souls of the dead to HADES , as well as being a god of sleep and dreams . |
| 9 | He turned his head and saw Hrun crouched by the pit , his sword a blur as it hacked at the tentacles racing out towards him . |
| 10 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
| 11 | He turned and saw Tock bent over the handle . |
| 12 | The four weeks preceding Christmas 1984 saw Britain locked in the desperate late stages of a long , cold and bitter conflict . |
| 13 | The Marshal had arrived in time , as he had promised , to see Cipolla delivered to the court and taken upstairs , chained between two other prisoners whose appeals were to be heard that morning . |
| 14 | This situation has not arisen by chance ; it represents a desire of the German financial community to see Frankfurt established as the centre for trading DM derivative products . |
| 15 | Is not this how we see God revealed in the record of Himself in the Bible ? |