Example sentences of "to see [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine . |
| 2 | The Senegalese Armed Forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Mamadou Mansour Seck , had gone to see Taylor about the incident , accompanied by Maj.-Gen. |
| 3 | Terry arrived late on Friday night so on Saturday he went to see Sarah with an invitation to tea from his mother . |
| 4 | The group came from the south of England to see Frankie in A Night At the Music Hall at the town 's Civic Theatre . |
| 5 | Loretta decided she would have to abandon her attempt to see Veronica for the rest of the day . |
| 6 | Still fastening buttons , she hobbled to the door in time to see Travis down the beach , waving his hands to attract its attention . |
| 7 | He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while . |
| 8 | It is only now , almost five years after the fact , that the US press corps and America 's allies are beginning to see Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for the hoax that it is . |
| 9 | When it 's daylight in Leningrad and the buses and lorries are roaring along the wide Nevsky , and African delegates are being toasted at multi-course lunches at the Astoria , then it 's easy to see Leningrad as the birthplace of Communism . |
| 10 | The Americans have begun to see Ukraine as an interloper threatening the post-cold-war world order , above all by its reluctance to ratify nuclear-arms treaties , which might unravel the carefully negotiated global web of arms-control accords . |
| 11 | They kissed , briefly , and made a date for about eleven the same morning , to see Karen onto the ferry . |
| 12 | HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria . |
| 13 | HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria . |
| 14 | George was already phrasing his call to Culliman ; perhaps the request should be for Maxim to ‘ make himself available ’ to the Study group a suggestion of staying several days give the chap a chance to see Washington in the fall … and make a quick trip to St Louis and back . |
| 15 | It is a long way from the " careership " proposals of the CBI and a long way , too , from the systematic manner in which those parties argue who would wish to see TECs as the regulators of training and as the godfather of the careers service . |
| 16 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
| 17 | He said nothing , just that he wanted to see Duncan in the hall . |
| 18 | Dexter was glad they had come back to see Lancaster at the end of the day . |
| 19 | By straining my eyes , I thought I might be able to see Donegal across the bay . |
| 20 | She spun , sweating with panic , to see Damian in the forest clearing . |
| 21 | Christian wanted to see Seb at the farm immediately . |
| 22 | Americans now came to see Castro as a threat and Cuba as a potential base for Communist activity throughout Latin America . |
| 23 | Nigel Cramer came round to see Quinn during the lunch-hour , London time . |
| 24 | As Gandhi says : ‘ I am endeavouring to see God through the service of humanity , for I know that God is neither in heaven nor down below , but in every one . ’ |
| 25 | He was in Hollywood by 1915 in time to see Griffith at the height of his powers , and in a sense Vidor was always to remain a representative of the Griffith era ; he was to become Hollywood 's token Progressive in a period when the main energies of that phenomenon had been exhausted . |
| 26 | Of course it will be difficult because at the moment the er the legal minimum is thirty miles an hour in , in any city , but we 'd like to see Oxford as a pilot for a twenty mile an hour speed limit which is no good if you leave the roads as they are . |
| 27 | The press began to see Morrissey as the spokesman for a new generation . |
| 28 | ‘ Speaking of medical matters , I need to see Belinda for a moment , if you 'll excuse us . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It must be frightening for them to see Ryan on the bench . |
| 30 | On 9 October I went to see Macmillan in the nursing home and he talked about the future leadership . |