Example sentences of "[adv] see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alerted by a slight sound , she again opened her eyes , turning her head slowly to see a cup and saucer being placed on a nearby small table . |
| 2 | Just enough to see a nose and one eye . |
| 3 | She sat with bowed head for a moment then looked directly at him and replied , ‘ It is only my child , sir , the wanting of my child , and suddenly seeing a way to get him , and then it being taken away . |
| 4 | His heart beating painfully , Jack wheeled round , only to see a man and a woman emerge , looking dishevelled and frightened . |
| 5 | Being on the 46th floor , I threw the curtains wide open to enjoy this unusual event , took a shower and casually sauntered back into my room stark naked — only to see a man outside my window ! |
| 6 | ‘ We are selling publishers ’ books at list prices , to the core market , and thus ensuring that publishers are able to recover their origination , only to see a mass of examples of the same book on offer elsewhere at cheaper prices . |
| 7 | The authorities had eventually allowed him in , but only to see a spokesman . |
| 8 | He turned angrily to remonstrate with Tommy , only to see a rat the size of a rabbit lying between his legs . |
| 9 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 10 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 11 | ‘ These include four species of cobra but I have only seen a cobra twice , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 13 | And a nice clean straight like you , you know , young , only seen a needle down the doctor 's — well . |
| 14 | Alice looked all round the table , but she could only see a teapot . |
| 15 | I can only see a daddy and a little girl on a roundabout . |
| 16 | and could only see a turn-up |
| 17 | In Williams ' chapter ( 3.1 ) , we may perhaps see a justification of equality of condition or outcome on the basis of equality of opportunity . |
| 18 | Why not at the party , from a woman who suddenly saw a way to wreak her spite not only on Parkin but on his ambitious young lover ? |
| 19 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 20 | ‘ But I told ye I only saw a shadow . ’ |
| 21 | THE film distributors obviously saw a hit on their hands with the cartoon FREDDIE AS F.R.O.7 ( Cert U ; General ) because its sequel is already in production . |
| 22 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 23 | one of them said , you know , he said how , how the hell how the hell can they say which directions the fire 's coming from ? but they , I mean some of them were saying like this mate he run out , he was going across this patch of open space and the soldier obviously saw a soldier and as he did that apparently he got shot through there and out the other side of him . |
| 24 | Or try the heart-in-mouth sensation when you 're strolling with your lover at some secret rendezvous and you suddenly see a neighbour across the street or your husband 's car waiting at the lights . |
| 25 | If we look at our relationships with others , we merely see a reflection of our love ( or lack of love ) for ourselves . |
| 26 | But I c er I only see a blackbird , that 's all , two blackbirds three . |
| 27 | Wards are mixed and many of us only see a nurse at meal times . |
| 28 | When I was younger , I thought : people will see me coming , and only see a leg , then later they 'll see the person . |
| 29 | Whereas in the previous studies subjects have had prior knowledge of a junction and multiple exposures to it , in this study subjects only see a junction once , in just one set of traffic conditions and at the same time as making a risk assessment . |
| 30 | Those who like their conservatism raw and their patriotism loud see a danger of blandness . |