Example sentences of "did [adv] see [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike them , Mary Queen of Scots did not see complexities in the situation ; like her grandson Charles I after her , she assumed that the expression of the royal will from a distance was enough to make problems go away . |
| 2 | The Poles did not see things this way . |
| 3 | Local authorities did not see things that way . |
| 4 | Allow this clause to go through unamended and there is a serious danger that a future Home Secretary 's friends on a police authority could indicate that if a chief officer did not see things the way they did and that of the government of the day his contract might not be renewed . |
| 5 | Evidently I did not see fighters go down that day but I know they did but this was a first realization as if there was somebody up there to kill me and I guess this is the point at which you realize that you are going to kill them before they kill you and all of a sudden we are in combat all our lives and we take a complete change in outlook from everything because up to now everything had been practise and training just for this except we did not have that realization that they are there to kill us , who 's gon na be killed first ? |
| 6 | Extrovert , cheerful and bursting with half-baked ideas and projects , he did n't see things the way the talkers did . |
| 7 | The very idea of Kenneth Williams protecting anyone is so ridiculous that it is laughable , but Halliwell did n't see things that way . |