Example sentences of "see [pos pn] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I remember half-waking and seeing my master bend over me . |
2 | WHAT a delight to see my childhood hero Noddy dancing with presenter Anthea Turner to celebrate his return to TV . |
3 | Sheepishly I fed the other meter , too , and slouched in to see my Alexander Technique teacher , who 's helping me to stand up straight . |
4 | ‘ She marched me off to see my bank manager . |
5 | You seen my tape measure love ? |
6 | Opera Northern Ireland wanted local children to see its dress rehearsal of the popular musical , and regarded it as an opportunity to help with community development . |
7 | Only one country is expected to see its GNP decline between the two years : Sweden , with a 0.5% drop . |
8 | In the 1980s , management came to see its information system as part of a variety of decision support systems . |
9 | The Treasury , which other departments felt had been engaging in the review only half-heartedly until mid-March ( and which was urged to take a greater role by Mr Major ) , was damned if it was going to see its VAT switch spent on anything that could be tagged ‘ son of poll tax ’ . |
10 | Jetting across the Atlantic , after two years in America , she had looked forward to seeing her home town from the air , to retracing toy-sized , familiar landmarks , to marvelling at new unfamiliar ones . |
11 | ‘ As for Rose … ’ she shivered , and Dr Neil , seeing her face change , said abruptly , |
12 | He flexed his hands under the cloth , and shouted irritably at Rosa , ‘ You 'll never make a city woman , thank God , ’ and then , seeing her face fall , wondered at it . |
13 | Virginia 's doctor , a self-important little man , had a patient once who lost her memory after the shock of seeing her husband fall to his death over a cliff . |
14 | However much , privately , she may have hated seeing her husband drink , or hearing him swear , she would never rebuke him in front of others . |
15 | He might want to see her grocery list and cross a few things off . |
16 | With a deep breath , she opened her bedroom door to see her sister-in-law half standing , half crouching at the top of the stairs , the perspiring pallor of her face telling its own alarming story . |
17 | It was the last time Cherry , 45 , was to see her common-law husband alive . |
18 | I would love to see her play Saffi again . |
19 | The Marchioness has n't yet been able to see her baby son George , nor has she had a visit from her estranged husband , Jamie Blandford , currently banned by the High Court from seeing her . |
20 | Her shop it was the streets ; After noon and after morn Wearing her shoes , tattered and torn , She walked to see her mother yew Who once , in olden days , she knew . |
21 | Competitors designed clobber for Di to wear to a nightclub , Joan Collins for a shopping spree and Kylie Minogue to see her bank manager . |
22 | Our peasant is starting off today to Roslavl' , 55 miles away , in order to see her soldier son who has been away in the Civil War , and is passing with his peacetime unit by train tomorrow from Briansk further south to the city of Smolensk with an hour 's stop in Roslavl' . |
23 | We also hope that , by the end of their course , students will be able to stand back , to see their core subject in a wider context , to have a sense of its development and how it relates to other subjects , and to have a due sense of its contribution to the world . |
24 | We want to see their country benefit from all of this . |
25 | The growth of the welfare state will be clearly relatable to the growth of democracy , with the people choosing to see their society change in this way . |
26 | One of the major criticisms of these previous theories has been that they have tended to see their subject matter ( that is , rule-breaking ) as straightforward and easily identifiable — crime being behaviour that breaks certain of the rules of society . |
27 | I have just returned from a visit to Bulgaria , and I thought your readers might like to see their spraying equipment . |
28 | Litzi Miller champion trainer says that some people do n't even bet they'e just happy to see their dog win |
29 | To bring them into the open is often to see their power evaporate . |
30 | He will be surrounded by finance ministers who have forecast the green-shoots of recovery but who have yet to see their crop flourish . |