Example sentences of "did not see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not see the guard revise his aim , away from the gathered crowd . |
| 2 | She did not see the S.S.O. coming quickly out of the library and crossing the entrance . |
| 3 | Supporters of the acts did not see the principles of state hygiene as contradicting the moral emphases of the public health movement . |
| 4 | Inevitably , referee Mike Fitzgibbon did not see the incident and needed to be helped out by a touch-judge . |
| 5 | Tolstoy 's attempt to explain why the British did not see the massacre , by suggesting that there was a hill in the way , is therefore superfluous . |
| 6 | He saw and did not see the paintings . |
| 7 | Musician Lake was bailed at Marylebone , London , on condition he did not see the boy . |
| 8 | He had his eyes downcast when they came to the corner of the great hall , and he did not see the Prince approaching , leading by the hand an unknown lady . |
| 9 | Cynics in Manchester claim that the last chief constable there had a direct link to God and , therefore , did not see the advantages of computers . |
| 10 | The Curator did not see the look in Mr Wolski 's eyes as he glanced back to the window and stared again at the wolves outside , who had turned to face the icy wind with narrowed yellow eyes . |
| 11 | The Benetton spokeswoman said photographer Olivero Toscani did not see the faces of the people whose genitals appeared in the advertisement . |
| 12 | He did not see the tons of scaffolding or concrete blocks , but instead manicured lawns interspersed with narrow paths winding through lush tropical planting . |
| 13 | He saw the tree rise up off the stage and did not see the rope and pulleys that raised it . |
| 14 | ‘ The defendant clearly did not see the bicycle because he hit it firmly in the rear , ’ Mr Reid said . |
| 15 | I DID not see the London Marathon this weekend , and so can not complain about it too loudly , but my heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who found themselves confronted by 25,000 runners , all anxious to show how goodhearted they were and what fun they were having . |
| 16 | JTR ‘ did not see the glen to the greatest advantage ; the weather was too fine . ’ |
| 17 | She pretended to be busy dealing with her correspondence but she did not see the letters she appeared to be looking at . |
| 18 | ‘ I did not see the television , as even my friends who had it had not the Independent ; and the only person who saw it seemed to be the greengrocer , who naturally had everything . |
| 19 | He did not see the trap she had set for him . |
| 20 | Even FD Roosevelt , he reminds us , had to tell lies about his fiscal intentions in order to get elected ( it is a pity the Labour Party did not see the proofs of this book ) ; and the famous fiscal deficit of the US , ‘ though a topic of voluble discourse ’ , was ‘ less of a threat to the contented than the taxes that would have reduced it ’ . |
| 21 | One man who , greatly to the relief of his family and parishioners , did not see the burning , for he died while the rebels were on their way , was the minister , William Reid . |
| 22 | While the market as a whole has shrunk over the past five or six years as the generational pattern of collecting and dealing has shifted , it did not see the boom prices of the 1980s and therefore has not experienced the recession to the same degree as some other areas . |
| 23 | Mr Goodwin did not see the file and does not know if his source had access to the file . |
| 24 | We did not see the signal as it was fast approaching time for our departure from York , but just before we left Mr Hopkin he informed us that there were also tickets , buttons , maybe som small brass fittings , an 1864 rail chair and possibly the original chimney of Carlisle from before her 1924 heavy overhaul . |
| 25 | We will be asked why we did not see the importance of the emerging European bloc on our doorstep . |
| 26 | Hardy is amused that Richard did not see the steel beneath the silk . |
| 27 | So we end up dissociating one piece of behaviour from another : in ‘ blindsight ’ , the verbal response ‘ No , I did not see the light ’ is dissociated from the ability to move the eyes towards the light . |
| 28 | The Feminine Mystique , which dared to put the silent question , did not see the light of day until 1963 , when it sold three million copies , but it was already being written and its audience was waiting . |
| 29 | I did not see the production until the following Christmas , when it contained an amusing touch which I imagine John must have added that year , after Leonide Massine had revived The Three-cornered Hat at Covent Garden : Hansel and Gretel danced a few steps with a bunch of grapes , a good-humoured quotation from the dance of the miller and his wife in Massine 's ballet . |
| 30 | The view mentioned by the hon. Gentleman has never been put to me and I did not see the article to which he referred . |