Example sentences of "[noun sg] to see [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Britannia said he had asked for permission to see the flight deck and apparently made the threat while casually chatting to the captain .
2 IT MADE A CHANGE TO SEE THE MOTOR industry doing something original at the NEC show — admitting it never does anything original .
3 Thus it was that a young cosmochelonian of the Steady Gait faction , testing a new telescope with which he hoped to make measurements of the precise albedo of Great A'Tuin 's right eye , was on this eventful evening the first outsider to see the smoke rise hubward from the burning of the oldest city in the world .
4 When Phil Collins came on , his jacket had such wide shoulders that I had to lean to one side to see the monitor TV set which the producer uses to scribble messages to me .
5 Fly to New York and skate on the Rockefeller ice rink before trudging through the snow to see The Nutcracker Suite at the Lincoln Center .
6 It would be a massive oversimplification to see The Wedding Present 's excursion into Ukrainian music as merely an attempt by Peter Solowka to please his parents .
7 Hundreds of fans queued for hours in the cold to see the pop group EMF stage a special concert in their home town .
8 Apart from the inputs and outputs described above this procedure checks whether each reference measure lies outside a certain percentage tolerance , checks for low-light conditions ( failure to see the reference card ) and checks on the current number of bad readings .
9 Shocked onlookers , in town to see the Milk Race , watched as detectives broke into the pub .
10 She received a charming welcome from Monique Lavaux , and a boisterous one from Marie-Christine , who promptly dragged her off to her room to see the wedding dress she was making for herself , in fold after fold of shimmering ivory brocade .
11 Just the ticket to see the sun rise .
12 They scrambled to the back to see the fire brigade squirting water on the flames .
13 More than five hundred items are in the exhibition — enthusiasts say it 's a chance to see the art form of the nineties .
14 In general , parents will not have a chance to see the specimen paper until June 14 .
15 Do n't miss the chance to see the Lord Mayor 's Samuel Bequest pictures
16 This frequently involved coercion , for instance , parents forcibly taking their son or daughter to see the family doctor and wives threatening to leave home and take the children with them .
17 It is a normal sight to see the school technician discussing audio-visual maintenance , helping with a video presentation , instructing children in camera techniques or maintaining duplicating equipment .
18 I was happy to do a signposted walk up the valley to see the caving system .
19 I was then put on a waiting list to see the back specialist at the local hospital .
20 ‘ I fully intend being up at dawn to see the ship dock .
21 ‘ But the trouble is that we do n't know the pattern of the stars here , ’ said Snodgrass , who had sent himself quite dizzy by standing perfectly still and craning his neck as far back as he could in order to see the night sky .
22 Blissfully unaware of the impending danger , Grant stood under the outer canopy of the treeline and eyed the cloud cover overhead , in time to see the moon slide out of sight .
23 He turned his dark head in time to see the colour drain from her face as her green eyes filled with fear and excitement .
24 His head jerked round and he was just in time to see the pack stream out from the bushes only thirty yards away , noses still glued to the invisible trail they were following , and lope swiftly towards the house .
25 He turned just in time to see the coffin sink below the surface of the waves .
26 Chen shrugged , then turned in time to see the screen light up .
  Next page