Example sentences of "see [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year Biggin 's organisers are opening the show site a day early , on Friday 19 June , to give the public an opportunity to see aircraft arriving for the Air Fair and watch performers practising for the airshow . |
| 2 | I 've never seen Heidi lost for words before ! |
| 3 | In a characteristic show of intellectual bravado , de Gaulle now said that he had seen independence coming for twenty years or more . |
| 4 | If her eyes had been open , she would have seen Zeno heading for the cliff path . |
| 5 | Some people may sprint when they run , but I have seen people running for the bus who could not be described as sprinting . |
| 6 | You had to make a tiny hole to push it through — I 've seen men reported for using them — making a hole in their uniform . |
| 7 | Having reached the centre of the town , I hobbled back to the north of it , where I had seen vehicles waiting for the filling station to open . |
| 8 | Many people have seen Charlotte waiting for Albert , or her ghost who refuses to leave this station . |
| 9 | A statement from the council 's environmental health department said the authority would rather see dogs cared for properly than have to catch them as strays . |
| 10 | ‘ However , in the economic revolution which has overtaken them with the collapse of the Soviet Union I can see problems looming for them in future . |
| 11 | One day , just as he is about to throw himself off a cliff , he sees Custer riding for Little Big Horn . |
| 12 | I stood frozen to the spot unable to do anything ; I could see soldiers diving for cover ; the Frenchman who was coming towards me with a smile on his bearded face was now lying on the ground . |
| 13 | Scroll forward to this week , reverse the picture ; and the world sees America pushing for intervention in the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia , while Europe nervously resists . |
| 14 | Since the Minister is so concerned about the gold belonging to the Baltic states , will he see justice done for the poorest country in Europe , Albania , whose gold is in the Bank of England and was stolen from that country four decades ago ? |
| 15 | A DRY four-hour Sunday drive from Cork to Tullermeny , a small village 70 miles from Dublin , sees Bono apologising for the lack of splendour in the unceasing and somehow dainty countryscape . |
| 16 | But the best tonic of all would be seeing Liverpool challenge for the title . |
| 17 | By 1987 , the SDLP was making no secret of its desire to see Thatcher re-elected for a third term . |
| 18 | She 'd been amazed to see Nelson working for her — and even more amazed to see how good he was at it , laughing and chatting with the customers , apparently having the time of his life . |
| 19 | This was how the visual comedy of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was conceived , although this was not to be the opening episode of the series ; Michael Mills felt the couple needed to be introduced in another story , which saw Frank go for a job as a door-to-door salesman — one of many jobs — and bungle the practice session in his own inimitable way . |
| 20 | Both sides were fired up — too much so — in some cases — and a spiteful start brought warnings for David Speedie and Keith Alexander before the third-minute incident which saw Rees dismissed for stamping on Downs with the full-back prostrate and helpless . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw problems coming for the breed and in 1984 I started a training club for Dobermanns and , more specifically , for their owners , ’ Graham said . |
| 22 | ‘ Then Rodney came over and the two of us went into the back yard and saw Siobhan screaming for help out of a bedroom widow . ’ |
| 23 | The rest of the match saw Rangers push for more goals , and Gough hit the bar and Hateley and McCoist both saw shots fly wide . |
| 24 | A strange and , to those unaware of the Easterhouse situation , ambiguous line which saw Morrissey running for the shelter of his lawyer , Alexis Grower . |
| 25 | It was the only time I saw Cantona play for Leeds live . |
| 26 | England , defeated by these two then , now saw Akram go for a duck , a nifty piece of stumping by Russell from a curving , cutting ball from his captain . |
| 27 | A determined back movement by CI saw Drummond cross for the visitors to leave the scoreline 6–8 at half time in the visitors favour . |
| 28 | She saw Margaret waiting for her outside her house and she gave her a little wave . |
| 29 | We 've now got a trained erm chain saw operator working for us . |
| 30 | Are we then , in fairness to smokers who seem to have become the target of the ‘ let's hang 'em brigade ’ , going to see treatment refused for all ailments which , could be said to have been self-inflicted ? |