Example sentences of "[adv] see the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century . |
| 2 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 3 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 4 | The baldricked and garlanded dancers , from Thelwall in Cheshire , entertained audiences with a traditional display which coincided with news that a record number of visitors had flooded in to see the BNFL exhibition . |
| 5 | I mean I have gone to the trouble , I have been in to see the planning officer that 's dealing with it , erm I 've written to every single member of the planning committee , I 've written to the Environmental Health who have written back to me saying they offer no objections and there because the smell wo n't be a problem so I 've written them back another stinking letter and saying well erm |
| 6 | We would of done the same sort of thing and could of gone in to see the planning officer but I just , I just assumed you know that , that life was fair but of course there 's no justice in this life |
| 7 | Stand close enough to see the column form and you will probably be pelted with near-boiling water . |
| 8 | We 're all goin' along to see the relief officer , ’ he soothed her . |
| 9 | In many instances , the first reaction of parents was to take the user along to see the family doctor . |
| 10 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 11 | A foolish general might surround his Pump Wagon with friendly units only to see the machine crunch through his own lines in the first turn ! |
| 12 | They raced onto the platform , followed a minute or two later by a panting Naseby , only to see the railway train , now bearing Miss Throgmorton , steaming slowly away , enveloping them in white smoke . |
| 13 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 14 | Hanging helplessly in the safety straps , Ace looked down to see the cabin ceiling buckling and tearing . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've invited Audrey down to see the horse anytime , ’ says Mr Lambourne . |
| 16 | The man had been in the wood and had perhaps seen the animal cemetery . |
| 17 | Another rebel said : ‘ He has tunnel vision and can only see the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 18 | Unsurprisingly , viewers in the Serb-held cities in Bosnia are no longer able to receive Sarajevo TV , but can only see the Belgrade version of reality . |
| 19 | She was thinking about pigs and children when she suddenly saw the Cheshire Cat in a tree . |
| 20 | The formation of the Film Society in 1925 , which aimed to make British filmmakers aware of the creative possibilities of the medium by screening the most artistically adventurous films being made in Russia , Germany and elsewhere , had caused some confusion in the commercial film industry , which rightly saw the Film Society 's platform as a blast against the prevailing aesthetic orthodoxies . |
| 21 | But oh , Nicodemus if you only see him as a teacher you only see the minute part of me ! |
| 22 | You only see the business side of him — that is , apart from last night , ’ he added with a meaningful smile . |
| 23 | ‘ The political situation in FIFA , at the moment , is such that we have to be very careful of not seeing the majority move towards that idea . ’ |
| 24 | The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all . |
| 25 | And another witness , who had been in the car park , said in a statement to police that he had not seen the policeman check underneath his car before getting . |
| 26 | They had not seen the party programme and regulations , nor any copy of their own journal Young Guard . |
| 27 | The questionnaire was therefore designed in such a way that teachers who had not seen the Solihull booklet would not complete part one . |
| 28 | Although they had not seen the Harbour Master 's orders themselves , there seemed a distinct possibility that all ‘ normal ’ use of the water was about to end . |
| 29 | The umpire procedure has often been relied on as an argument for a reference being an arbitration rather than an instance of expert determination ( or , in the older cases , a " valuation " ) but the courts have not seen the umpire procedure as an important factor , and the involvement of an umpire does not turn a reference to an expert into an arbitration . |
| 30 | Had I just seen the DOS version , I 'd have been a little niggled about some of the design parameters , but very impressed at the functionality , with an overall favourable opinion . |