Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] see the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was that that made me see the other side of him . |
| 2 | Sleeman 's Indian journeys , his great interest in local customs and religious beliefs , his explorations of temples and ruins wherever he went in pre-Mutiny India , helped me to see the Irish as an Indo-European people . |
| 3 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 4 | His hair was still quite closely cropped , and his beard now followed the lines of his jaw and allowed her to see the hard fierce lines of his face . |
| 5 | As she collapsed she saw the last of the assassins crumple , his body lifted once then once again as the shells ripped into him . |
| 6 | This made him see the great urgency of persuading ‘ such ignorant , presumptuous and careless sinners as the world aboundeth with ’ to repent and believe in Christ . |
| 7 | Several times she thought she saw the tall figure of the guide , only to be disappointed . |
| 8 | They all thought she saw the same in the mirror as they saw every day . |
| 9 | We took her to see the Three Howes , prehistoric mounds on the summit of the moors . |
| 10 | Did you see the eighteen across there ? |
| 11 | Did you see the Central News before ? |
| 12 | are you able to help this jury with this simple matter , to your knowledge , on this development , on a hundred and thirty eight or so apartments did you see the second addition of this brochure and the third ? , did you personally ever see it ? |
| 13 | All he said was , ‘ Did you see the Georgian State Dancers ? ’ |
| 14 | Did you see The Phantom music ? |
| 15 | Did you see the other one that was interviewed on Terry Wogan ? |
| 16 | Teaching my granny to suck eggs , I am sure , but did you see the last Scottish Business Insider which profiled a number of women ? |
| 17 | Did you see the little kittens at the end ? |
| 18 | Nor did she see the sudden eruption into the alehouse of two more men . |
| 19 | Who did we see the last time we were here ? |
| 20 | When he did they saw the dead animal and , in fury at being deprived of their sport , they ran the hermit through with their boar staves . |
| 21 | Only then did they see the great livid gashes that no man could have inflicted raked along both Ranks . |
| 22 | Only then did he see the thin figure of Louis leaning against the saloon bulkhead . |
| 23 | Had I seen the extraordinary edition of the Observer newspaper , carrying extracts from the government 's official report into the Al Fayeds ' purchase of the House of Fraser group ? |
| 24 | Mr Jarrett said she saw the four defendants go for Mr Johnson , holding knives and stabbing at him uttering threat of drawing blood.It was a fatal single stab wound to the neck that caused his death . |
| 25 | She said she saw the two defendants tormenting an elderly woman by prodding her from behind . |
| 26 | We could have reduced nuclear weaponry then , had we seen the Soviet Union in those terms . |
| 27 | had they seen the Royal Bank ads ? |
| 28 | Eckert did not know the real Arthur Hardy 's share in these juvenile expeditions , nor had he seen the then unpublished A Sportman 's Tale which amplifies the sustained friendship between these two Battersea Grammar School pupils . |
| 29 | Mr Clay said he saw the second article on the plane flying home . |
| 30 | ILY BRATINA , an economist and veteran of two world wars and the Russian Revolution who said he saw the charred body of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker , has died aged 96 . |