Example sentences of "see the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was usually a fortnight ; she liked to see the New Year in . |
| 2 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 3 | But for once it was the taking part that counted most and when you 've slept in the ruins of a fifties French post office , seen the New Year in with champers in the middle of a sand dune , coped with Idi Amin look-alike policemen and paid backstreet prices to backstreet petrol dealers , you 're going to have memories to last as long as the event . |
| 4 | Mrs Puri did not see the New Year in , but the following day she celebrated the event in her own inimitable fashion . |
| 5 | It was the first time any one of them had asked her reasons for wanting to come across and see the New Year in , and she answered , ‘ Some men 's do , I suppose . ’ |
| 6 | She said I could n't see the new year in . |
| 7 | A SHORT-SIGHTED burglar tried to break into an optician 's but could n't see the right way in . |
| 8 | In happy mood on 31 December , he saw the New Year in . |
| 9 | Later on you can bring her into my bed and then go over there and see the New Year in . |