Example sentences of "see [prep] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 WIGAN fought all the way before seeing off Workington Town 's hopes of a historic first semi-final place in today 's Regal Trophy draw .
2 But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer .
3 It 's Twickenham once more for Bicester RFC who are through to the final again after seeing off Altrincham Kersal in the semis .
4 Is the Prime Minister aware that in south Derbyshire , having seen off Arthur Scargill , we have a vigorous , successful engineering industry , a high level of exports and a young and growing work force with a low level of unemployment ?
5 Earlier he had seen off Darren Thompson of Newport , and beat Blackwood 's Nigel Organ in the quarter-final .
6 The remains of one were found at Rye on 27 November 1938 ; one was seen off Langney Point on 4 June 1956 .
7 Then he is seen as Mr Policey , serving ice cream from a van painted white to avoid suspicion — with the words Unmarked Police Car printed on the side .
8 The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period .
9 That could not be said of the Cuban missile crisis which could be seen as President Kennedy 's determination to uphold the Monroe doctrine .
10 Positive imbalances can be seen for Allegheny West , Central North Side and Manchester in favour of investment and negatively for the remaining neighbourhoods .
11 The Evil One is seen after St Gregory of Nazianzus as having no rights at all — on the contrary he is seen as a robber and a liar who stole the world from God and who holds humanity as captives in bondage to their own sin and his influence and power .
12 Recently seen opposite Warren Beatty in the title role of the re-released Lilith as a mentally ill girl suffering from ‘ nymphomania ’ , Seberg was hounded by an FBI dirty tricks campaign after her vocal support for the Black Panthers movement , which reportedly led to her suicide in 1979 .
13 From what I have read and seen of Crumlin Road Prison , the conditions there could hardly be more austere , particularly for remand prisoners ( who , let it not be forgotten , are innocent until proven guilty ) .
14 He took it by train to Devonshire and walked many miles over the moors with it so that it would not be seen near Baskerville Hall .
15 The down Sheffield Pullman seen near Brookhouse Colliery in the winter of 1962 with one of the early class 40's .
16 This can be seen near Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland , where the Whin Sill is nearly horizontal but with a slight apparent dip to the south .
17 There are about nine records but only four for this century : an immature was seen near Lancing College on 12 December 1954 , which may have been an escape ; an immature was found dead at Rye on 29 September 1969 ; a sub-adult was seen at Sidlesham Ferry on 27 May 1970 .
18 Class 20 's 20207/147 are seen near Duckmanton North by the remains of the LD & EC connection .
19 The wagon is seen near Duckmanton North .
20 Musselburgh also had the best centre in David Laird , who confirmed the good impression when last seen against Glasgow Academicals .
21 This has a methodological implication as well : all too often it is assumed that Foucault 's stress on disruption can be taken as equivalent to randomness , as we have seen with Perry Anderson .
22 Yet they never expected the Duke of Edinburgh to accompany the Queen everywhere , or Mark Phillips to be seen with Princess Anne .
23 First seen alongside Neneh Cherry , singing and standing on her head with the early-Eighties cult dance band Rip Rig And Panic , Andrea Oliver has since sung with a variety of outfits and , in between organising and cooking for a weekly night at West London 's Globe club , has recently joined forces with Malcolm Joseph ( previously with soul band Seventh Heaven ) to form new band , Her .
24 There were four of them — three men and a woman , as was later revealed , though , that they are tall and broad of shoulder and walked with that kind of lithe confidence and grace seen in GalactiGames athletes in peak condition .
25 There was a fondness for the strict classical style , as seen in Moscow Kiev Station , affirming a desire to be recognized as a fully-fledged European power .
26 Since the evening of the reception at the governor 's palais when she had turned her head to find him looking at her , the memory of the naked desire she had seen in Jacques Devraux 's eyes had smouldered in her mind .
27 In 1927 Eliot turned sharply against the sort of ‘ love of created beings ’ seen in Sweeney Agonistes and against its world .
28 This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder .
29 At this Drew became disturbed and emotional , and said that , if the three people that he had previously named — the Lindos and Norman Stubbs , the stage manager — could not testify that he was at the theatre at the time of the murder , he knew of no-one else who could , but he certainly did not commit any murder , nor was he seen in Cross Street with blood on his face .
30 The results were ‘ very reassuring ’ with ‘ no sign whatever of the damage seen in West Germany or any unexpected abnormalities ’ .
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