Example sentences of "he [verb] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The shadow of the dome of pleasure ’ flashes past on the waves like a sequence of film , while the poet reflects on what he has seen previously , the only thing now remaining being the sense of wonder amidst the conciliation of paradox and the momentary solution of metaphysical inquiry : |
| 2 | He has seen right from the start that the majority of Germans wanted unification and that the pace of events was dictating a much more rapid move towards unification than most people , either inside , and certainly on the outside , had realised , and he put all his authority into the campaign , campaigned extremely effectively and has had a ringing endorsement . |
| 3 | Pearson , England 's former centre-forward , is impressed with what he has seen so far at Valley Parade . |
| 4 | Yet he has seen only two other houses in the creek come on the market in the last 12 years . |
| 5 | Howard never realized — up to now he has seen only copies of the Night Watch and the Birth of Venus ; indeed of everything , from electron microscopes and openers to the muddle of plasticine , string , and electric flex in the toy drawer at home . |
| 6 | He has seen about 6000 patients over the years and all except six had suffered from allergies . |
| 7 | He wants to see even greater spending on publicity , help and advice . |
| 8 | The only vehicles he 'd seen here so polished were hearses . |
| 9 | After the lesson he told me that he wanted to buy a really good shirt he 'd seen somewhere , and I enquired into the resale potential of the item with a view to recovering my outlay in case of bankruptcy , which amused him further ; and then I gave him my terms . |
| 10 | Morse thought it must be the splendid grandfather clock he 'd seen somewhere that he heard chiming the three-quarters ( 10.45 a.m. ) as he and Lewis sat beside each other in a deep settee in the Lancaster Room . |
| 11 | Two wheels , round and round , he could n't take his eyes away , and this time it 'd be like worship , I dreamed that we were made of gold , he 'd seen too much , his eyes were gold , they 'd have to melt them down . |
| 12 | Philip remembered the room he 'd seen yesterday , empty and dead , shaped like a shoe-box . |
| 13 | One Manchester United fan insisted he 'd seen very few disturbances . |
| 14 | He had drawn the cross he 'd seen so briefly , and coloured the stones red and the setting yellow . |
| 15 | With annoying irrelevance it occurred to Quentin that the name of the film on the television screen was Three Smart Girls , which he 'd seen about thirty-five years ago , when he was a child himself . |
| 16 | But there was a sadness in Alina 's eyes now , unlike anything that he 'd seen there before ; a sadness not for what had been , but for what could never be . |
| 17 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 18 | Antoine 's brown eyes lost that blind unfocused look ; she noticed a faint smile wander over his face as he began to see more clearly . |
| 19 | The frost on his windscreen was merely dampness still and after four or five sweeps of the wiper-blades he began to see more clearly . |
| 20 | Above all , he seems to see only good in science , and ignores the dark side , where it has direct connections with exploitation , tyranny , and war . |
| 21 | With their thin faces and sharp teeth , they looked like the rats he had seen outside . |
| 22 | Vologsky had not monitored all his automatic recording , but he had seen enough to know that things were really serious . |
| 23 | But for the present he had seen enough . |
| 24 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |
| 25 | Cranston cursed and tossed a coin at one of the creatures then strode back to the house , bellowing that he had seen enough . |
| 26 | He was looking for the bowl of eggs he had seen earlier . |
| 27 | The two Chelonians he had seen earlier were strapped into padded harnesses that suspended their front set of limbs conveniently over the main instrument panel . |
| 28 | Surely this could n't be the woman he had seen earlier ? |
| 29 | You are suggesting , tactfully , that he did n't like what he saw ( correct ) , and that if he had seen more , he would perhaps have come round to your way of thinking in these matters ( incorrect ) . |
| 30 | He felt that he had seen more than enough of Mr Yarrow . |