Example sentences of "see [n mass] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | No no it was n't I seen I seen people in the pleasance being silver coated pills . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's upset because he 's seen people in the boathouse … |
| 4 | One has seen people from the shop floor sent to help start up plants overseas , and seen them rapidly take responsibilities far beyond those which they had been given in their home organization . |
| 5 | You see I would like to see people at the end of this programme to have some idea , not just of fancy figures in the air , but of practical effects that will affect them on the ground . |
| 6 | not ever erm , I , I kept seeing people on the roads though |
| 7 | He had a beautiful dream of riding Bones like you saw people on the television , leaping great fences , seen from low down so that they looked about ten feet high . |
| 8 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 9 | If ever you see bream at the surface moving in several different directions , or merely lying with their backs or just the tip of their dorsal fins out of the water , or cruising sedately along , then they are not rolling or feeding bream . |
| 10 | Sometimes , when I 'm doing my shows , I see people in the audience slipping from their seats into a kneeling position and I say , ‘ Get up ! |