Example sentences of "see with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She wore new black button-up boots and on her head was perched the largest black hat I had ever seen with a black bird on top .
2 And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them .
3 When Murray Bookchin came clattering into our living room 25 years ago , in a period now seen with a misplaced nostalgia by the left , his urban guerrilla appearance belied his message .
4 They had heard that Shill had been seen with a local man , Johnny Turner , at the King 's Head Monday lunchtime .
5 My father was obviously enjoying the company of the Masons ; like most people he was gratified to be seen with a well-known golfer and to be ever-so-slightly in the spotlight .
6 She sees with a well mind .
7 Griffith had the wit to apply Inglis 's mathematics on a far finer scale , to ‘ openings ’ of almost molecular size and too fine to see with an optical microscope .
8 There was also , she saw with a slight flush , a peach silk camisole and French knickers .
9 At Sara 's and David 's entrance , the girl stepped back convulsively from the man , and Sara saw with a dull feeling of inevitability that it was Matthew and Sandra .
10 He gave Miss Jarman a sideways look which Jess saw with a little skip of interest , thinking — he 's got her measure ; she wo n't fool him .
11 It was a curious ménage : the girl , the uncle , the grandmother — a solitary representative of each generation , like one of those squeezed houses you sometimes see with a single room on each storey .
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