Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] see be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had never believed in ghosts but what I had seen was unaccountable . |
| 2 | ‘ There are more Senior tournaments in the pipeline , but what I want to see are more National Open championships . |
| 3 | ‘ What I want to see is the woman you should be — the one you were born to be . |
| 4 | When I go from hence let this be my parting word , that what I have seen is unsurpassable . |
| 5 | What she had seen was indecent and terrifying , and she could tell her fear to nobody . |
| 6 | What she had seen was a Scarag , impaled through the jaw and hanging limp on Scathach 's lance , which had been driven into the ground . |
| 7 | What she did see was hair the colour of rich , ruby port wine , swept up , somehow , from the forehead and hanging past her shoulders in a heavy , shining mass that curled under at the sides and bottom like a long page-boy bob . |
| 8 | So that 's you know greater percentages than those you 've actually seen , that 's hundred percent and what you 've seen is whatever it is . |
| 9 | Okay well if we look into the development of the presidency what we 've seen is a gradually changing conception of the office . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ What we have seen is the devaluation not just of a currency but of a Prime Minister and an entire Government . |
| 11 | What we have to see is that Christ died not just as a self sacrifice not just because of injustice but he died as the atonement , to pay the price , for our sin . |
| 12 | What we do see is the tremendous transformation by the newer media of society , communication and recreational habits , a huge impact we have often been slow to recognize . |
| 13 | The officers ' comments about what they had seen were observations of association between W and others , but in no case was any act shown on W's part which could be regarded as an overt act in respect of the conspiracy charge . |
| 14 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 15 | What they do see is a high-energy electron ( positron ) that appears to come from the decay of a W - ( W - ) . |
| 16 | I was able to correct him ; what he had seen were the crowds of prisoners ! |
| 17 | What he had seen was Williams Point on Livingston Island , a black promontory that stood out from the ice-cap . |
| 18 | What he seemed to see was something else , something that wore her like a shell , and it was walking towards him . |
| 19 | What he does see is a crippled lama living in extreme simplicity and frugality in a mountain hermitage , whose being is irradiated with a joy which has an even keener edge because his infirmities offer him no possibility of escape . |