Example sentences of "see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peering closer he thought he could see a smear roughly the same length on the jacket pocket , but the cloth was too dirty for him to be sure . |
| 2 | Or would you rather see a flick ? ’ |
| 3 | Around the park you will see a variety of animals which will have particular appeal to children . |
| 4 | Walking along the riverbank or lakeside , I could see a variety of waterfowl , such as moorhens , seagulls and ducks ; up in the trees were virtually the entire crow family — jays , rooks and jackdaws — as well as blackbirds , thrushes , finches , all the everyday birds . |
| 5 | Walkers will see a variety of flora and fauna including deer , kestrels and woodpeckers . |
| 6 | WP Do you think we could see a reversion to the kind of right-wing authoritarianism which characterised Hungary between the wars ? |
| 7 | I could see a cat , dying stoically . |
| 8 | I can see a bottle poking out the basket and there 's a chicken too , all brown and cooked . |
| 9 | And even if we do n't marry or live with a man , the fact that most women do means that every man will see a housewife when he sees us . |
| 10 | Through one of the glass panes in Plover Hide I could see a twite : a plump little linnet-like bird , brown , streaky-breasted , with a bright yellow stubby bill . |
| 11 | In Hatfield Chase today , you can see a sign put up by a local farmer with a sense of humour . |
| 12 | At the end of the Forestry Commission car park , in front of the Forestry Commission building , you 'll see a sign marked Shepherd 's Hill Trek which directs you around the side of the building . |
| 13 | Stephen could n't see a sign of its owner . |
| 14 | If you do see a sign like that please , or any words that mean the same thing , like no refunds , no money refunded , no money refunded on sale goods any of those phrases , will you please let Trad your nearest Trading Standards Office know . |
| 15 | And should you see a sign on the fur side of the street flashing BEEF-BOOZE-NO STRINGS , then you can forget it . |
| 16 | You turn right and you go down it and you 'll see a sign for Lower Thornton . |
| 17 | but as you go round you will see a sign Fancy Goods . |
| 18 | ‘ Can you see a theatre over there ? ’ |
| 19 | You will see a dialog box counting up the number of matches , before you are returned to the original display showing files at the left , and details at the right . |
| 20 | If you look carefully you may see a date and the maker 's initials on one of the canes , which are covered with a clear glass weight . |
| 21 | You could see a thought stirring , but you could n't say if it was Pike 's or not . |
| 22 | Leaving the Church of St Nicholas , on your left across the square , you can see a tunnel through a grand palace ( 12/259 ) ; , this was one of the four gates of the Malá Strana . |
| 23 | In the first place we can see a reliance on self-help and often pre-industrial techniques , given new meaning in transformed social circumstances . |
| 24 | They had turned back to Sicily and I could n't see a formation but spotted a straggler who , curiously enough , was flying diagonally across our line of approach and not heading pell-mell for home . |
| 25 | ‘ She thought you might see a link between the affair and the murder . ’ |
| 26 | You do n't need to write another essay , you just need to acknowledge that you can see a link between the work and that actually makes the work look a l a lot better , a lot more rounded , so that 's a cheap way of getting marks . |
| 27 | ‘ And if you can not see a Merkut hand behind what has happened , so are you . ’ |
| 28 | Through the net curtain he could see a porter assisting the driver of the car into a wheelchair . |
| 29 | Sarah 's house was at the other end of it and I could see a couple of cars parked outside what I was sure was their home . |
| 30 | In the deck well I could see a couple of girls and two men in bathing suits . |