Example sentences of "[vb mod] see the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give " em a few months , and you should see the share price double . |
| 2 | ‘ If you think this is awful you should see the master suite , ’ a cheerful voice said , and she lifted her head to see a fit-looking Roman lounging at the end of her bed . |
| 3 | This year alone should see the UK release of four films . |
| 4 | There are times , too , when the class teacher should see the school nurse , the social worker , the educational psychologist and , above all , the parent who can not wait . |
| 5 | You should see the tail rotor slow right down or even stop . |
| 6 | You should see the screen change to something like |
| 7 | He might not be quite the regal material the Tongan people were looking for , and as his wheezing old father — born in 1918 , still fit , but neither infallible nor immortal — tottered around the herbaceous borders , I fancied , or perhaps dreaded , that soon we might see the kingdom fall and a republic rise in its place , and the monarchy he represented fall victim to the spirit of the age , as ancient and outworn as Captain Cook 's old tortoise . |
| 8 | You 'll see the knit movement going one way and the tuck movement the other . |
| 9 | You 'll see the word Oko , or a green tree or triangle symbol on many German-made dishwashers . |
| 10 | If you weave half way across a row and stop and take off the sinker plate , you 'll see the weaving yarn weaving up and down over the needles . |
| 11 | Head towards the cafeteria and you 'll see the Greenpeace marquee to the right , where you register for the walk . |
| 12 | Some may feel coerced into company-centred behaviour , some may accept for instrumental reasons because there is no alternative while others may see the family analogy as the ideal structure for industrial relations . |
| 13 | Mr Piggott could see the vegetable garden from his vantage point in the churchyard . |
| 14 | I could see the mood Dad was in and all I wanted to do was to make myself scarce before they started to quarrel . |
| 15 | We could see the army post now and the shuffling sentries and a few jeeps passing in and out of the gate . |
| 16 | She could see the Moebius Strip . |
| 17 | But they had one in the corner you see and I could see the back leg was gone said to Margaret an said I might as well do something of that , you know , to do up it 's the only one that they had there that wanted really wanted repairing , so the feller said ooh I do n't know he said hang on , I 'll look in the book . |
| 18 | From where she sat she could see the Molesworth house . |
| 19 | From one of its windows , I could see the Frankenstein gate . |
| 20 | Up the road , she could see the village shop , a child emerging with ice cream . |
| 21 | He could see the clock tower . |
| 22 | ‘ The salesmen could see the oxygen cylinder in the hall . |
| 23 | Beyond him she could see the afternoon DJ in his studio , a couple more strides and another set of double-glazing further on , hunched over his microphone like a harassed co-pilot . |
| 24 | He could see the tail light of the oil train stopped ! |
| 25 | So the cameraman , looking through his viewfinder , could see the caption slide through the glass plate , plus sufficient reflection of the action going on over at the black drape set . |
| 26 | Far below he could see the lacework shadow of the Forth bridge on the glittering estuary and the long dark lines of the cruisers Edinburgh , Southampton , and further out , the destroyer Mohawk , under way for Rosyth after convoy duty . |
| 27 | He could see the stocking factory , though , or at least the shell of it . |
| 28 | Looking over the oak rails , I could see the gallery floor and , further below , the ground-floor area , the spectacular chimney continuing upward and out of sight above the sloping-beamed ceiling . |
| 29 | Through gaps in the forest canopy high overhead , he could see the night sky was tinted crimson , telling him Bethlehem House was still burning . |
| 30 | However , each time we called she would n't answer the door although we could see the curtain move so we knew she was at home . |