Example sentences of "he see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 2 | Had he imagined it or had he seen a light flickering in the window of the St Manicus chapel ? |
| 3 | Sometimes , he sees a blade of light in the darkness and thinks : ‘ There is Crevecoeur ! |
| 4 | ‘ And if he sees a word like camel with parts of the letters C , M and L missed out , he identifies that word faster than anyone else — and that includes my PhD students . ’ |
| 5 | He sees a specialist tomorrow but the club are optimistic that he is not as badly hurt as first feared . |
| 6 | And the extra reward is that if a dog learns to sit when he sees a child , it means he does n't jump up . |
| 7 | Frege , it should be stressed at once , interprets functions basically by analogy with machines , i.e. he sees a function as a kind of logical mechanism , such that if certain numerical constants or " arguments " are " fed " into it , it will produce certain values . |
| 8 | If he sees a worm or even a woodlouse , everything stops for the rescue . |
| 9 | He says that when he twists ice out of its plastic container , the ice being extremely cold and dry , he sees a flash of blue-white light as the cubes shatter into pieces . |
| 10 | It is also undeniable that he sees a part of the truth — such ceremonies educated the young at large to respect their elders and betters and to aspire to the same glory ( Polyb. 6.54.3 ) : they were civic festivals . |
| 11 | In his mind 's eye he sees a girl who has brains ( although he knows that some very dim actresses can read with all the appearance of intelligence , and the converse ) who has a slight resistance to the Hollywoodification of Claudia 's life . |
| 12 | He sees a therapist once a week at a cost of £26 an hour . |
| 13 | He sees a clock , some prints — and a parrot 's perch . |
| 14 | When he sees a video of me on our telly , he says : ‘ Oh no , not her again ! ’ |
| 15 | Wells ( 1986 ) discusses the nurse 's role as a patient advocate — not making decisions for the patient but ensuring that no one usurps the needs , rights and humanity of the patient — and in ‘ Ethics and information ’ discusses the potential difficulties ; he sees a place for the nurse as the patient 's advocate in certain circumstances . |
| 16 | He sees a car advertised for sale in a newspaper . |
| 17 | If he sees a woman undressing in a window , he 'll stop and have a look . |
| 18 | Beyond saying that he sees a world where aggression is deterred and disputes settled peacefully , Mr Bush has not offered a definition . |
| 19 | Those demands , he says , will constantly take the group into new areas and he sees a liklihood that major parts of the product range will change completely at least every decade . |
| 20 | If he sees a gleam of light , it is in the clubs — some of them anyway — who tackle the tourists before they play Wales . |
| 21 | Pavel is jerked awake ; he sees a uniform . |
| 22 | He sees a movement away from a situation where there were extensive kin ties but a lack of really close relationships in the conjugal family , through the emergence of a family based on the patriarchal authority of the father , to a dominant form of family life which began to take shape around the middle of the seventeenth century , and was characterized by close emotional bonds between parents and children and a strong sense of privacy in the nuclear family household . |
| 23 | Turning round he saw a litter of bones strewn among the furrows . |
| 24 | Unbelievably , for a split second , he was sure he saw a look of relief on the face of Nell Anderson . |
| 25 | Once Sigarup thought he saw a tār , a flash of greyish-blue streaking away into the mist . |
| 26 | Turning , he saw a barn owl , flying parallel to him , though a few feet higher . |
| 27 | On July 15 , 1927 he saw a kind of Peterloo massacre in Vienna . |
| 28 | But then he saw a servant he had that day badly mutilated , also pointing . |
| 29 | He saw a widow , famous , with some money . |
| 30 | Dougal watched Henry 's face : he could have sworn he saw a flash of disappointment there . |