Example sentences of "he [adv] see [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Banting , the crown undertaker , who provided the model for the future ; for he rarely saw a corpse , contracting out at every stage of the proceedings . |
| 2 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 3 | ‘ He only saw the shintiyan ! ’ |
| 4 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 5 | As Zen came through the door he suddenly saw an opening and lunged forward , so that for the next thirty seconds or so he was unable to reply to his visitor 's question . |
| 6 | He struggled with Manchester United , too , until he suddenly saw the light and realised he was going nowhere . |
| 7 | I imagine he just saw the writing on the wall and did n't like their spelling . ’ |
| 8 | It tells you all the mistakes he made , before he finally saw the light . |
| 9 | Had he not seen the man before ? |
| 10 | The label 's ‘ Shostakovich Film Festival ’ ( ) is music from The Gadfly , Five Days and Five Nights , Hamlet — and , more dubiously , the Tahiti Trot ( which Shostakovich simply orchestrated for a wager after hearing a gramophone record of it — there 's no evidence he ever saw the son , better known as Tea for Two , performed on film or intended that his own version of it should be ) , and the First Piano Concerto ( some of the themes of which were recycled for a Soviet cartoon in 1933 ! ) . |
| 11 | He still saw the Alliance " as a temporary co-operation to save democracy and peace " in which " the Labour Party should take the lead " . |
| 12 | Here too he also saw the opening for what he called eristics , a kind of ‘ polemical apologetics ’ in which the Christian understanding of human life as marked by sin and in need of grace could engage in controversial dialogue with other views in order to clarify the difference made by the message of the gospel . |
| 13 | But as Orwell recorded the state of interminable slums , he also saw the landscape in transition . |
| 14 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 15 | He also saw the process from both ends . |
| 16 | Melchiori uses statistics in attempting to define the ‘ norm ’ of I — Thou in Shakespeare and the exceptions , the twenty-one sonnets lacking I , and the twenty-five lacking Thou or You ( he also sees no distinction between singular and plural forms ) . |
| 17 | But he also sees the need for guarantees on employment conditions there . |
| 18 | He also sees the need to reform the electoral system to clean up the political system . |
| 19 | He also sees the growth of digital signal processor market with increased demand for modems , disk drives , speech-driven devices and portable phones as well as in other telecommunications products such as switches . |
| 20 | On one occasion he nearly saw the man killed : ‘ The rope , sixty-five yards long , on his being drawn up , having a knot in the middle , was arrested by a clint ( crack ) in the rock , to which , with an eaglet sixteen and a half pounds weight , tied to his back , he had no other resource than that of ascending by his hands , the space something overhanging from the nest to the crack … |
| 21 | There by the light of an adjoining street lamp he clearly saw the figure of a station master or porter wearing a flat-topped regulation hat apparently waiting for a train . |
| 22 | However , although Professor Plumb suggests the participation of " better-off " tradesmen he clearly sees the leisure industry as catering mostly for the expanding and increasingly prosperous middle class . |
| 23 | I told him I was n't screwing Michael , because that was the most important thing to Murray , the only thing he really saw the point of . |
| 24 | Had Charles Sunderby imagined it , or had he really seen the figure of a man standing frozen at the wheel ? |
| 25 | He simply sees a connection between the sham lion hunt and the all-too-real execution of his brother . |
| 26 | If he is of a poetic turn of mind , will he even see a kind of justice in the eventual return to silicon-based life , with DNA no more than an interlude , albeit one that lasted longer than three aeons ? |
| 27 | He vaguely saw the monster and then he ran back to the camp where he was camping , but he did n't describe |
| 28 | He therefore sees no point in trying to enforce statutory instructions that are so unclear that any reliance on them would be speculative , so vague that they can not aid coordination in any case . |
| 29 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 30 | My informant thinks that what he saw was genuine and was certain that someone was down there , his mate in the other box was equally sure that he too saw the figure . |