Example sentences of "see be [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you can see are their eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ So all I can see are your fingers , your toes and your naughty bits ? ’ |
| 3 | If all you could see were your nose , or the side of your face , nature 's design system would clearly have slipped up somewhere . |
| 4 | In nature , of course , the first moving , honking thing that a gosling sees is its parent , and it will normally become imprinted on , and follow , its mother . |
| 5 | On a misty day when on a hill walk all you 'd see is your feet , in the valley acres of countryside can stretch before you . |
| 6 | But what she could see was his arm leaving his side . |
| 7 | He barely registered the factory — all he could see was his stepfather 's face on the pillow , grey and shrunken , and his mother sitting patiently beside him . |
| 8 | He was wearing a balaclava so all I could see was his eyes . |
| 9 | She was convinced that sailors and tourists she saw were his emissaries , sent to proclaim his love for her . |
| 10 | The first thing he saw was her blood group . |
| 11 | The next thing I saw was my kite diving away from me , the roar of its engine gradually fading as it plunged earthwards . |
| 12 | When I came round my head was very bad and the first thing I saw was my father . |
| 13 | The first thing he saw was his helmet hanging from the branch of a tree near his hide . |
| 14 | The recession has hit the farming community as hard as anyone — and the last thing farmers want to see is their livelihood going up in smoke . |
| 15 | It is interesting to connect this point with Leapor 's ‘ An Epistle to a Lady ’ ; as Leapor contemplates her own death , and the soul leaving the body , the last thing she wishes to see is her friend : ‘ Be you the last that leaves my closing Eyes [ ML , 1 , 40 ] . |
| 16 | " The exhibitors thought they just wanted a big shed , " Bizat phlegmatically recalls , " and their view was " all we want people to see is our stands , we do n't want them looking anywhere else " , so they disliked the idea ofa setting that was attractive in itself But the then architect , Dr Peter Smith , wanted to bring the Palace back to its previous glory . |
| 17 | We lived in a high-rise apartment , so I wo n't miss that , and the only garden I ever get to see is my mum 's when we go down there on Sundays sometimes . |
| 18 | All I seemed to see was his face — or maybe just his eyes . |
| 19 | The saucer whizzes overhead , the camera follows it and the next thing you see is its destination . |
| 20 | He peers out at us from the photograph on the front cover of his catalogue raisonné : all we see is his deadpan baby-face , hovering horizontal about a foot above the studio floor , the rest of his body is concealed nay , shrouded by one of his crinkly gesso ‘ achrome ’ paintings which is propped against the studio wall . |
| 21 | The only person I really see is my neighbour next door . |
| 22 | It was my Brazilian-born wife — who you see is my accompanist — who insisted we accept engagements in Europe because she wanted to see where I grew up . |
| 23 | All the equipment is concealed so all you see is your fish — which should look great in the water conditions provided by the builtin filtration system . |