Example sentences of "see [noun prp] the [noun sg] " 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 | You might have seen Pete the Pylon in a certain television commercial . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My favourite moment of that visit was seeing Jennifer the donkey . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had expected to see Fosdyke the day before when she went shopping . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In fact I rather gather he saw Paul the night he died . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What precisely is wrong with Gaelic-speaking children being allowed to see Thomas the Tank Engine , and Postman Pat in their own language ? |
| 14 | 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 . |