Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 2 | The animals he 'd seen had always been well looked after . |
| 3 | In the car he had seen himself in words on a page , a helpless being pinioned by letters , manipulated by a creative intelligence that seemed set upon punishment and pain rather than any grace or redemption . |
| 4 | Then the actor told his agent he wanted to see his name up in lights at the cinema . |
| 5 | At the briefing he agreed to see Alfred , while Kersey would talk to the son-in-law , Barry Morse . |
| 6 | He had felt distress and pity for the sufferings he had seen about him , but they had not struck home to his heart as seeing McAllister brought so low had done . |
| 7 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 8 | They were slanted somehow , and he recollected pictures he had seen of the early ancestors of the Manchu . |
| 9 | But in the last surge of light he 'd seen beyond the reflection of the glass vizor — at the horror within . |
| 10 | Terry arrived late on Friday night so on Saturday he went to see Sarah with an invitation to tea from his mother . |
| 11 | Some of the most original and beautiful designs he had seen in thirty years . |
| 12 | TEENAGER Steven Perry dived into a canal in West Bromwich and saved a drowning youngster — using the kiss-of-life he had seen on the TV series Casualty . |
| 13 | Yet he bowed in respect ; Benstede left with a wink and a perfunctory nod , telling Corbett he hoped to see him again . |
| 14 | On recovery , Mr Hayden described the stranger to the porter who agreed that it was the same figure he had seen . |
| 15 | He hardly ever tried Linda he wants to see more of that to pay it . |
| 16 | Sharpe felt a sudden fear that he had raised a false alarm and the force he had seen had been nothing but a feint . |
| 17 | Alan Cooksey , deputy chief inspecting officer of railways , told a fatal accident inquiry in Glasgow that when he was first presented with a ‘ thumbnail sketch ’ of the proposed lay-out he had seen no reason to delay it . |
| 18 | He became angry and frustrated , having struggled so hard to rise above his humble background to become a physician , and the marriage he had seen as his link to success was more like a chain binding him to the spoilt daughter of the man whose position he envied . |
| 19 | The first work he went to see was The Sleeping Beauty , ‘ which you would hate , with sumptuous settings and dresses by Messel which you would adore . ’ |
| 20 | He had access to scores and opportunities of hearing orchestral excerpts in concert , but at the time of the publication of BT the only Wagnerian work he had seen performed remained Meistersinger . |
| 21 | He told us last May he wanted to see freight switched from road to rail . |
| 22 | With their thin faces and sharp teeth , they looked like the rats he had seen outside . |
| 23 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 24 | During the months they were waiting for the divorce he came to see her nearly every day . |
| 25 | ‘ Something you wrote ? ’ asked Bob , remembering the dialogue he had seen on Morris 's desk . |
| 26 | After the wounds he 'd seen in his time , how could one little splinter have such an effect ? |
| 27 | He looked up quickly and there , half silhouetted in the twilight , stood the wiry , curly-haired boy he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 28 | It was the boy he had seen with Shrub . |
| 29 | He had a clear vision of the kind of Korea he wished to see created , which would be based on the repudiation of Japan and vehement antagonism to communism . |
| 30 | Perceptual lenses ground at home and school provide the youth with the equipment he uses to see the society around him . |