Example sentences of "see [noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Problem is , take one too many and you 'll start to see hair growing out of the walls .
2 Q : Would you like to see PANDA work together with the Kennel Club ?
3 As an innovator , what directions would you like to see archaeology go in over the next twenty years ?
4 as if in slow motion she had seen Benny travel backwards through the air , landing heavily on his back among the rubbish that littered the end of the garden .
5 She decided this on Monday afternoon , having seen Anna digging manfully in the vegetable garden she had made behind the Rectory .
6 ‘ I said I 'd seen Sam hanging about on the towpath with a bunch of yobs . ’
7 And seen gillies going out for the Stenness Hotel s with sailing boats , I 've seen eight leaving there in the morning I went to school .
8 Police have appealed to anyone who may have seen people acting suspiciously in the area of the hospital to contact them .
9 Police have appealed for anyone in the area who may have seen people acting suspiciously near the bank to contact them on Darlington .
10 She had seen Amy drive up to the house on Saturday morning .
11 I 've often seen toddlers jumping about in the back of cars ahead of me .
12 She had seen Guy fight before at the river crossing , but then he had been quick and efficient .
13 I 've seen pensioners waiting outside in the rain and it 's even worse for those further ahead in the line inside who are being subjected to those dreadful video adverts while they wait .
14 Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of .
15 As the medics were carrying him away I could see blood oozing out of the eye-holes of his boots and dripping on the ground .
16 But maybe he did see Rosa run heavily for the door of her home ; maybe he was one of the men in the cafe who knew , who corroborated Tommaso 's insult later with their laughter , and made it impossible for Davide to ignore it and fail to issue his challenge .
17 The tide was turning and he could see debris drifting downstream in the yellow afternoon light towards the River Gate , a mere hundred yards downstream .
18 Even now as he stood there by the kitchen table he could see Caspar closing in on the weaker lamb , and he could hear that weird and terrible wailing of Lee 's .
19 we might see boats fall out of the sky too .
20 She wished there was a window in front , so she could see Midnight sitting up on the driver 's seat beside Hawkins .
21 ‘ When the tram passed Springfield Park , you know , by Alder Hey Hospital , I could see trenches dug all over the park .
22 Hopefully if the money is there to enable the works to be built , then we 'll see Venice safeguarded well into the next century .
23 ‘ A combination of the abolition of special car tax and lower interest rates should see people coming back to the showrooms , ’ said a spokesman .
24 When his letter of release comes , he sees happiness beckon just over the horizon .
25 Inside these glass globes — part of what Henry James called " the thick detail of London life " — you can see lettering put there by the shop owners , and just make out in one globe the word TEA .
26 ‘ Also I ca n't see cafes catching on in the North , we have n't got the weather to sit outside . ’
27 Elizabeth listened intently , till she could practically see steam puffing out of the ears of Seumas Ban and Lady Bridhe .
28 They do not see women going out into the world and doing .
29 Nigel Mott made sure of the three points two minutes from time , and he could see Milton going back to the top of the table this evening .
30 Then a movement caught her eye , and she looked to see Adam coming warily round the car , Undry in his hands .
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