Example sentences of "see a [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each day they brought him cyclostyled sheets from their local agents , and the telephone numbers of friends ' relatives whose relatives ' friends had seen a board up somewhere . |
| 2 | His personal failure was for two reasons : firstly , that the metamorphosis from the Left-wing backbencher with a CND badge and a baggage of similar lost causes could be seen a mile off . |
| 3 | Stephen told them how that morning he had seen a girl out on the moor alone . |
| 4 | I 've never seen a milkman round here |
| 5 | I can see a way out now . |
| 6 | I can see a way out and I 'm taking it , and the fact it 's a kind of betrayal does n't really matter . |
| 7 | And by the time we got there we could see a fire round at the back of the the crane pedestal which was in B module where most of the oil separation plant is . |
| 8 | I gain a sense of achievement knowing I can see a job through to the end . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 10 | You 'll see a bus up there wo n't you ? |
| 11 | Well , the first part of the question was when , when will they start seeing a return back on that money and secondly , when should n't you equity account it ? |
| 12 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 13 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
| 14 | I was surprised to see a cat out there . |
| 15 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 16 | It is hard to see a way out of this impasse . |
| 17 | There are readings throughout the Christian Bible which give help to people who are tense , lonely , bereaved , concerned for others or have a weakness in faith and about hundreds of other things and from these readings many people begin to see a way out of their problem . |
| 18 | I go along and watch women 's football and get really infuriated to see a man out there refereeing the game , and often in a very condescending manner ! |
| 19 | ‘ T is rare to see a priest up so early . ’ |
| 20 | implementing the recommendations made in the report that you have before you and er we we would like to see a report back which we will do anyway erm after the Inspector has visited and discussed it . |
| 21 | Shedding more light on Sun 's desire to make the deal , Ybarra claims that ‘ when Adobe gave Display Postscript to the MIT X Consortium Sun saw a way out of NeWS . ’ |
| 22 | I saw a boy up in one of the trees . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw a boy up there with plaster all down his cheek . |
| 24 | He drove past the dark oiled surface of the Seine ; he saw a bateau-mouche pass , brilliant with lights , saw two lovers , entwined in each other 's arms in the shadows ; saw a clochard out cold , slumped over the warmth of the vents from the Métro , a brown paper bag and a puddle of alcohol by his side . |
| 25 | Forty years ago I saw a friend off at Paddington , bound for Totnes . |
| 26 | Well I saw a sending off yesterday on television that er I thought was nowhere near as severe as that and I must say that he 's a very luck man Stan . |
| 27 | S. H. Patrolling up Prescot Road during the war , if I saw a light on , I used to shout , ‘ Put that bloody light out , ’ and if nobody put the light out , we used to let fly with a brick . |
| 28 | He was driving past , saw a light on in the shop and demanded to know what was going on . ’ |
| 29 | And he kept persisting because he saw a light on . |
| 30 | However you see a tendency in erm after eighteen eighteen to be perhaps more serving , to be serving the interests of the er er east European powers . |