Example sentences of "see the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huge crowds flock from East and West to see the second half of the artist 's career |
| 2 | Angelina 's voice made him jump and he forgot all about Pretty Polly , and all about his chances of sneaking away from the Canterbury trip tomorrow to see the second day of the Kent versus Australia match . |
| 3 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 4 | It also suits the fans likewise , who quite like to pop off to the cricket after lunch , and who also might like to travel to away league matches without having to leave before dawn to see the first ball bowled . |
| 5 | ‘ Because it would be good for some of us to see the first moments of your great fame . ’ |
| 6 | The second bit I 've seen but I need to see the first bit . |
| 7 | Not to mention a rapid passing on of mortgage cuts to bedraggled flocks of existing homeowners ; who are less than thrilled to see the first helping of crumbs go in instant cheap deals to first-time buyers . |
| 8 | A stampede broke out , people pushing past Jezrael to the cockpit to see the first signs of other human beings through the canopy . |
| 9 | We arrived just in time to see the first members of the brass band — a trombone and a tuba — come round the corner of the lane . |
| 10 | It is plausible to see the first point as spelling out the root problem for a philosophical account of knowledge , and the second as linked to Peirce 's anti-naturalism . |
| 11 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 12 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 13 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 14 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 15 | Possessed of such , and revelling in the distance set between them and miserable ‘ pragmatism ’ , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative Party can still persuade itself to see the last decade as a period when undeviating conviction wrought a miracle in the land . |
| 16 | It is easy — too easy , perhaps — to see the last decades of the 1700s as a time of unalleviated misery for a large part of the population of the British Isles . |
| 17 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 18 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 19 | PATRICK was back at Royal St. George 's in time to see the last couples finish their rounds . |
| 20 | The 1990s are likely to see the last days of the political baronets . |
| 21 | Granted his education and career it is not surprising that Sidonius , both in his panegyrics and also in his letter-collection , was able to see the last days of the imperial court within a traditional perspective . |
| 22 | When this happened we had to wait until it was repaired , and if it proved impossible we were entitled to see the next film the following Sunday , for nothing . |
| 23 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 24 | You see , sometimes you turn these over , it puts ideas into your head , you see you 're not supposed to see the next card . |
| 25 | The neccriminal justice act in November introduces a new sentencing frame work which should reduce the numbers , but others would like to see the next Goverment go further . |
| 26 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 27 | You were looking at the beetle world in such a way as to be able to see the third dimension . |
| 28 | Dalglish is concerned after seeing the Second Division table-toppers manage just one win in their last seven games . |
| 29 | Well Nick , you have n't got the benefit of seeing the second division table in front of you . |
| 30 | The sport , he added , gives an enormous amount of pleasure to a lot of people , ‘ We are now seeing the second generation enjoying our facilities — youngsters whose parents used to ride around our tracks . ’ |