Example sentences of "[adv] to see the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century . |
| 2 | Stand close enough to see the column form and you will probably be pelted with near-boiling water . |
| 3 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
| 4 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 5 | A foolish general might surround his Pump Wagon with friendly units only to see the machine crunch through his own lines in the first turn ! |
| 6 | They raced onto the platform , followed a minute or two later by a panting Naseby , only to see the railway train , now bearing Miss Throgmorton , steaming slowly away , enveloping them in white smoke . |
| 7 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 8 | A lucky few even made it inside to see the Lizard King roll around on stage again . |
| 9 | And I always watched Wimbledon on the telly , even if it was just to see the lady players in those short skirts ( apart from old ‘ muscles ’ Navratilova ! ) . |
| 10 | ’ I am going to take you to the pictures tonight to see The Gold Rush . ’ |
| 11 | You do n't need a line to God now to see the way things are going . |
| 12 | You are very alive , very active … you just travel too fast to see the end result . |
| 13 | Two-thirds of those visitors came to New York specifically to see the Seurat show . |