Example sentences of "see a [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has seen a rise in the numbers of wild species in the area , including butterflies and birds snipe , curlew , green plover , skylark , merlin and kestrel . |
| 2 | I have never met or even seen a member of the Royal Family . |
| 3 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 4 | An hour or so ago , she had seen a stone of the right size and shape lying on the edge of a garden , and had put it into her pocket . |
| 5 | Luke was like someone who 'd seen a vision of the Holy Grail — completely obsessed . ’ |
| 6 | The past 30 years has seen a continuation of the break-up of the old landlord and tenant system . |
| 7 | You may have seen a film of the African tribe , the Masai , running : they run on their toes . |
| 8 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 9 | ‘ I have never seen a fracture of the anterior fossa of the skull due to a blow on the nose … |
| 10 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 11 | She had seen a phone in the big hall they called the vestibule . |
| 12 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
| 13 | We have n't set the world alight , but we have seen a selection of the many kinds of birds and animals which choose to make Shetland their home . |
| 14 | With that burden around us we have seen a reduction in the number of full-time officers being appointed by the union and which in turn has without any doubt had a detrimental effect upon the members who we serve . |
| 15 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 16 | The early Church , noting that this miracle took place in the wilderness , ‘ a lonely place ’ , would have seen a parallel with the feeding of the children of Israel with manna in the wilderness of the Sinai desert . |
| 17 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 18 | The creation and enhancement of shareholder value is at the core of Group strategy for the long term — 1992 has seen a watershed in the Group 's achievement of this aim . |
| 19 | However , there are two circumstances in which Parliament has seen a role for the Secretary of State . |
| 20 | Recent years have seen a multiplication in the number of TV channels and of communications media other than traditional terrestrial television — government pressure on broadcasters is perforce less effective than when there was only one channel . |
| 21 | Every day on his way to school he had seen a brooch in the jeweller 's window , the price showing on a card beside it . |
| 22 | Amazingly , 1986 has seen a reappearance of the singer-songwriter , with Peter Case , Stan Ridgway and Andy White receiving more than a smattering of applause . |
| 23 | Finding a style in these parts without having seen a production of the play can be a problem , but as with absurd drama , there is a lot of room for personal interpretation . |
| 24 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 25 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 26 | Now I have to say that since I 've seen a report from the Students ' Union and have read it through , I was actually shocked at the level of harassment that that report seemed to indicate . |
| 27 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee . |
| 28 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 29 | Even more than other industrial countries , America has seen a shift in the age distribution of poverty . |
| 30 | We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream . |