Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] see [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sand was cleaner than water , the desert dead cleaner than the drowned dishevelled things which I had seen thrown up on shores . |
| 2 | It is not a label which I want to see attached to the British economy . |
| 3 | Charlotte Campbell was more than delighted to have received a reply to her letter for the position of children 's nanny which she had seen advertised in The Times . |
| 4 | This is a political idea and it is one which we have seen expressed in a contemporary form in Oakeshott 's idea of respublica . |
| 5 | We also wish to hear staff views on the sorts of services which they wish to see provided . |
| 6 | Tony also mentioned how he had visited a local centre for the young unemployed which he had seen advertised in the local newspaper . |
| 7 | There was a field of poppies and corn which reminded him only of small and large , faded and ghostly versions of Van Gogh 's " Harvest " which he had seen repeated in endless hospital corridors , waiting rooms , school offices . |
| 8 | FORMER Armagh captain Jimmy Smyth has a two-fold ambition which he hopes to see fulfilled within the next ten days . |
| 9 | Scriptural authority was a further resource in his assault on Aristotelian philosophy , for there was no reference in Genesis to the creation of fire , which he wished to see excised from the elements . |
| 10 | In March 1939 he gave the Boutwood Foundation lectures at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , in which he outlined the kind of society which he wished to see established , a society which actively advanced the values and principles which he found so signally lacking in Neville Chamberlain 's England . |
| 11 | In a radio address on 24 May , for example , he announced three major categories of reform , which he expected to see accomplished before the end of the year : reform of the civil service ; nationalization of the coal , electricity , and banking industries ; and a plan to boost France 's birthrate . |
| 12 | He visited English public schools like Rugby , learning about the Victorian values of Muscular Christianity , which he wanted to see embodied in his Olympic Games . |
| 13 | In a broader sense , de Gaulle 's attitudes towards Germany and towards the empire ( which he wanted to see reconstituted in a reformed imperial federation ) were fundamentally at odds with the dynamics of the postwar world . |
| 14 | On a simple view , the Treasury , as a government department , formulates the financial policy which it wishes to see pursued and the Bank of England decides upon the appropriate technical means of carrying out that policy and is responsible for putting it into effect . |