Example sentences of "see [noun] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he said er , and I said that I gather you 're seeing Lynda the weekend if you do find anything perhaps you could pass it on to her . |
| 2 | It was really frustrating when Kylie was over here and she used to ring me and say she 'd seen Prince the night before , or Madonna or someone else really great . |
| 3 | You might have seen Pete the Pylon in a certain television commercial . |
| 4 | This gulf is shown most dramatically in the surprise ending , which obliges us to re-evaluate our reading of the novel by revealing that the anonymous , timid and sensitive lad who has been narrating the story of his early life in the first person is none other than Jaguar , the aggressive bully we have seen ruling the roost in the school . |
| 5 | For a second Sara looked blankly at him and then she suddenly remembered the little man who had called to see Matthew the day Fairfax had been there . |
| 6 | So you can see Chairman the facts and figures simply do not support either the report which came to the social services committee originally or Mr inflated figures . |
| 7 | So for example you can see chlorine the percentage of chlorine in solution expressed as a , a per centimetre solution is something like twenty four thousand but its percentage in crustal rock is nought point nought one three so there 's this big excess of chlorine to explain . |
| 8 | But nobody ever sees things the way I do . |
| 9 | I do n't think you can see things the way I see them . |
| 10 | Extrovert , cheerful and bursting with half-baked ideas and projects , he did n't see things the way the talkers did . |
| 11 | Allow this clause to go through unamended and there is a serious danger that a future Home Secretary 's friends on a police authority could indicate that if a chief officer did not see things the way they did and that of the government of the day his contract might not be renewed . |
| 12 | Once Crim had arrived he would go and see Hob the grave-digger , dying they said after he had slipped and fallen under a cartwheel which had crushed his ribs . |
| 13 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 14 | Absolutely no interest in politics whatsoever you know all they 'd done it 's you know it 's sad to see things the way they are but it seems to be that with the world over at the moment so . |
| 15 | My favourite moment of that visit was seeing Jennifer the donkey . |
| 16 | As their ‘ Eva Luna ’ album gathers plaudits for its unflinching portrayal of urban life , London 's eclectic revolutionaries take DELE FADELE round the East End to see Jack The Ripper 's old haunts . |
| 17 | She had expected to see Fosdyke the day before when she went shopping . |
| 18 | But erm I went to see Liz the night before she got married and actually she had no make-up on right but she looked prettier without it , like Catherine |
| 19 | Speaking of which , I saw Clem the Sunday before last . |
| 20 | He narrowed his eyes and saw Hope the Merchant Prince , the aristocrat at large on the Rialtos of the world , feared , admired , dipping silkenly between caskets of treasure , tranches of land , ships , silver mines , paintings , furniture , the collector , the connoisseur , and sending all back to the lonely Scottish estate which burgeoned with those foreign infusions of antique wealth , material goods … |
| 21 | I looked for the first time straight into his moonlit eyes , and I saw Perkin the son , the husband , the one who worked with wood . |
| 22 | I remember one Sunday afternoon when I saw Zebbie the Coalpicker pushing a bicycle up the hill with a sack of coals on the cross-bar . |
| 23 | In fact I rather gather he saw Paul the night he died . ’ |
| 24 | But they can count the number of times they 've been to see Elvis the Musical ; 38 to date and it will be forty by the end of the week . |
| 25 | What precisely is wrong with Gaelic-speaking children being allowed to see Thomas the Tank Engine , and Postman Pat in their own language ? |
| 26 | Lastly , he made up his mind to see Charlie the Pigeon , who could tell him all the things happening in the neighbourhood , because he could fly so high + see so much . |
| 27 | Seated in one of Kanazawa Industrial University library 's viewing booths , they just pick the tape they want to see front the list displayed , punch in its number , then sit back and wait for the programme to start . |