Example sentences of "to see [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 2 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 3 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 4 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
| 5 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 6 | I would nt be at all suprised to see them play in the ‘ theatre of dreams ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 8 | ‘ I was sorry to see them striding along the walks at Tunbridge Wells with their arms akimbo , dressed in martial uniform , ’ wrote the authoress Elizabeth Montagu that spring of some fellow members of her sex . |
| 9 | They really are a very vibrant organization , and er , I think we really would wish them well , and , and very pleasing to see them adapting to the new circumstances . |
| 10 | I think that 's what I think , but I 'm not sure that if I 'd been born here I 'd be pleased to see me walking down the lane . |
| 11 | At this Mr Healey was jolly pleased to see me trapped in the Thickets of Quotation , and , again merrily , said , ‘ Plato ? |
| 12 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 13 | Dr Livesey came out of the house in time to see me climbing into the stockade , and my friends welcomed me happily . |
| 14 | Grace Hinkle loves to see me making like an executive and remembering to charge up all expenses . |
| 15 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 16 | She insisted on knowing who her intruder was , and so she would wait down by the car to see who emerged from the building . |
| 17 | Cleo stood on tiptoe , trying to see who hid behind the door . |
| 18 | These are broad descriptions of how the company wishes to see itself developing over the planning period . |
| 19 | Seldom a telegram came and nobody liked to see one come to a house . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to see something happening in the game , something that helps the players and the spectators to enjoy it — but how can it happen when players are congested in seven-and-a-half yards either side of the halfway line ? ’ |
| 21 | something that it , either it is successful in itself and it no , no longer needs to be subsidized or something that they want to see go to the wall , if they want to see something going to the wall , it |
| 22 | An and I must admit that I would n't , I would not expect to see anybody delegated within the contract at less than M S one level . |
| 23 | Endill ran to the door expecting to see him crashing into the sea but when he looked down , saw him clinging to a wooden beam sticking out of the rock . |
| 24 | She had wanted to see him wake to the possession of all this beauty but he watched its passing impassively , stirring only to ask practical questions . |
| 25 | Id like to see him continue in the side ( in any position ) . |
| 26 | She breathed relief and opened her eyes just in time to see him disappear through the wire gate . |
| 27 | Then at the last minute she swung round , her heart bursting inside her , just in time to see him disappear through the terrace doors . |
| 28 | To see him passing by the window in his bucket hat holding a slice of bread and butter in his hand like the Mad Hatter , then hitting his forehead with his palm and rushing back in again . |
| 29 | No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training . |
| 30 | Could we bear to see him weeping across the border there in West Yorkshire ? |