Example sentences of "he [verb] see the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And presently revulsion gave way to indifference : he ceased to see the flaunted female bodies of advertisements and magazines because they had nothing to do with him , they were irrelevant . |
| 2 | How Basil Cottle 's guide to the French Cathedrals might look — when he has seen the remaining 40 episcopal seats . |
| 3 | As overlooker he has seen the changing face of technology affect looms over the past 47 years . |
| 4 | He has seen the Peliatan dancers on tour , hung his walls with posters of that photogenic island , bought records of gamelan music . |
| 5 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 6 | Partly because , it seems to me , his life is so much more important to him than his work , and he has seen the dreadful consequences of the solitary confinement some writers and artists consider the sine qua non of their trade . |
| 7 | The Director of Swaziland 's Curriculum Research and Development Unit at Manzini must motor miles to Mbabane if he wants to see the Chief Education Officer . |
| 8 | ‘ And Doyle never referred to the fact that he 'd seen the Asian girl near to Charlie 's ? ’ |
| 9 | James Tomlinson could not and still does not believe that he imagined seeing the mysterious passenger . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is an oddity that he seemed to see the criminal justice system as being the only aspect of the environment that influences individual decisions about whether it is worthwhile to commit crime or not . |
| 11 | The eyes smouldered for a moment at the impertinence , then he seemed to see the funny side and chuckled hoarsely . |
| 12 | He turned to see the plain little face of Margaret Seymour-Strachey , surmounted by a fawn , church-going hat of the dreariest kind . |
| 13 | Around him he began to see the unfolding beauty of early summer in his homeland and it held him still with wonder and made him forget the passing of the days . |
| 14 | Then he demanded to see the royal store-rooms and the lettuce-garden . |
| 15 | He had seen the young French clerk whom Celeste had seduced , be broken in a matter of days and confess to whatever question had been put to him . |
| 16 | ‘ I wonder what the Reverend Henry Solly would have said if he had seen the tremendous progress made by the Union over the past few years . ’ |
| 17 | Now that he was down at ground level it was not so easy for Patrick to locate the dell where he had seen the immaculate golfer . |
| 18 | Other noteworthy plantings were mentioned by Miller : the Duke of Norfolk had , at Worksop , the greatest number of Magnolia glauca then growing in England ; while in Sir John Collinson 's garden at Exeter , he had seen the largest Magnolia grandiflora in the country . |
| 19 | He was thinking — and something had happened that day to make him do so — about the first time he had seen the female golden eagle in the Zoo . |
| 20 | He had seen the best and the worst . |
| 21 | He recalled the first time he had seen the impressive building as a schoolboy on a day 's outing to see the sights of London . |
| 22 | Francis was trying to divide his attention between the little moving pictures and the Doctor 's argument with the dreadful Lacuna woman , but he had seen the blond girl smile in a way that made her face look almost unattractive , and he had heard her whisper savagely . |
| 23 | Her spirits swooped up again , although there had been no mention of spray-painting , and he had seen the scribbled slogans on the envelope on the table . |
| 24 | That he had seen the two talking ? |
| 25 | John Windle picked out Drew as a man he had seen the worse for drink and in a threatening attitude in Cross Street at 4.20 on 22 June . |
| 26 | When they had exhausted politics , Julia asked David whether he had seen the recent report in The Times about the Allied commission which had been investigating Italians who had helped escaping prisoners of war . |
| 27 | He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained ’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast . |
| 28 | Mansell hoped he had seen the last of the Brazilian after the two were involved in a high-speed collision during the final Grand Prix of the season in Australia . |
| 29 | He listened as the Cambridgeshire sergeant explained that the keeper on the shooting estate had realized he had seen the old plough there last week and had fetched the farmer in to explain where it had gone . |
| 30 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |