Example sentences of "see [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Hankses ' cottage , Tom rubbed the steam from the window and peered outside , able to see nothing but heavy snowflakes melting against the windows . |
| 2 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 3 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 4 | They were nearing the auto now , plunging towards it , backing away , seeing nothing but each other . |
| 5 | Growing up seeing nothing but these truly ghastly buildings , never using anything that is n't made of shoddy material , how could such children become people who would recognise and choose anything that 's beautiful ? |
| 6 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 7 | He had n't been so pleased to see someone in all his life . |
| 8 | He remained locked in a room for many days , seeing nobody between early morning and midnight . |
| 9 | Given , let let's say y'know somebody of a status goes to see somebody of equivalent status wait so it 's it 's about the distance , yeah . |
| 10 | Yet Siward , too , must have looked at his son Osbern sometimes and seen nothing but another man to sit in his chair . ’ |
| 11 | The Gulf has seen nothing on this scale before . ’ |
| 12 | Noel Cooper was lifted aboard : he had seen nothing of Norman Teacher since the Lt-Cmdr swam off towards the shore . |
| 13 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 14 | And as Rex and Khai Eng , still thriving in an area which has seen plenty of other vegetarian establishments come and go , get ready to enter their second decade , perhaps we 'll leave the last word to Rex : |
| 15 | She had seen none of this glamorous life ; she had seldom even been to smart restaurants , let alone banquets and star-studded receptions . |
| 16 | Li Yuan must have seen something of that in her face , for what he said next seemed to penetrate her mood , almost to read her thoughts . |
| 17 | She had seen something in those dark tragic eyes , something akin to the anguish betrayed now in Tyler 's . |
| 18 | I 'm sure I 've seen one on Mediterranean cooking I do n't know |
| 19 | In this matter , I seem to miss those issues to which you contribute articles : I have not seen one for many months now . |
| 20 | Have you seen one with black hair , black hair , short ? |
| 21 | I 've only ever seen one before right , I watched it last night and it 's the same fucking one . |
| 22 | Erm I know he 's not seen anyone for thirteen years but did , did it just come through the post , sign here , send it back |
| 23 | My waist was so small , they said they had never seen anyone with such a small waist . |
| 24 | Professionally , he had seldom seen anyone in such a perfect state of health — that alone was sufficient to mark her out in Vetch Street . |
| 25 | ‘ Have you seen anyone around this warehouse in the last six months ? ’ |
| 26 | We still have n't seen anything of that chip yet , you know from |
| 27 | ‘ We have not seen anything of this kind in Britain , ’ added the Commission 's Head of Site Studies . |
| 28 | Hills cut him from 10-1 to 6-1 , prompting their representative , Don Payne , to comment : ‘ You expect big market moves before races like this , but I 've never seen anything on this scale . ’ |
| 29 | They 're I 've never seen anything in that bowl . |
| 30 | Cries , Eliot knew , were vital to the most basic corroboree when ‘ on every side one sees nothing but violent gestures , cries , veritable howls , and deafening noises or every sort . |