Example sentences of "[adv] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we climbed higher the jungle became more marshy and exotic , with the sort of plants you usually only see as plastic decorations . |
| 2 | Although horses only see in black and white , which is really varying forms of grey like in black and white photographs , they are much more conscious of colour than we would expect . |
| 3 | I do not envy those who only see in them the messengers of evil tidings , forebodings of rain , and who think the landscape is devoid of loveliness because the sun does not shine — because there is not an Italian sky overhead , and that the open car or gig he travels in is not a Pullman car . |
| 4 | Yes you will , oh yes you will , I fucking see to that , seeing as they could n't even send me a fucking get well card |
| 5 | Normally see as people as the cars come out the lights change . |
| 6 | Just see to the most urgent of the letters if you 're up to it . ’ |
| 7 | Just see to it that he does not also cast his eyes on Ana . ’ |
| 8 | Well that 's it , they just they just see to it all . |
| 9 | But you , you just see to much of her that now |
| 10 | I try to look in the windows of the house but they 're either covered with those plastic roll-down external shutters you usually see in France or closed off inside by Venetian blinds . |
| 11 | Our one were out but they still see to it did n't they ? |
| 12 | Slowly the exterior background settings for religious paintings , the major activity of artists in the seventeenth century , took on more detailed contours and established geographic as well as topographic influences that we still see in some forms of landscape painting today . |
| 13 | Always see to it that your appearance when working on a case is compatible with your status . ’ |
| 14 | Having fought the good fight with anti-poll tax benefits , and the recent back-to-roots tour of London 's teething ground pubs , it 's out now on another lengthy tour of all those places that you always see in the gig guides and wonder what they 're like , paradoxically to promote a single called ‘ Air Conditioned ’ , which these places rarely seem to be . |
| 15 | Having fought the good fight with anti-poll tax benefits , and the recent back-to-roots tour of London 's teething ground pubs , it 's out now on another lengthy tour of all those places that you always see in the gig guides and wonder what they 're like , paradoxically to promote a single called ‘ Air Conditioned ’ , which these places rarely seem to be . |
| 16 | It 's all you ever see of her though . |
| 17 | If you know someone like that , it 's worth observing and studying his or her use of language , manner , and what his body language says to you , even if it is someone you only ever see on television . |
| 18 | Floundering excitedly among the real salmon , he had not noticed the water bailiff , who observed , ‘ Bedad , your honour , you 're the finest fish I ever see in this ladder this long time . ’ |
| 19 | Children value perceptive comments , responses and questions on their writing , but they quickly see through perfunctory approval and generalised faint praise . |
| 20 | It might therefore seem a rather odd choice as a label , but Wimsatt and Brooks 's reason for using it is that they view these analogical or metaphorical relationships as producing effects essentially similar to those for which the word irony is more commonly used , and which they also see as an important part of poetry . |
| 21 | Also see under ANIMALS , INTELLI- GENCE , EVOLUTION and CUSTARD . |
| 22 | We also see on page one , three , four and this is something you also mentioned Mr that if you 've got certain costs they will be covered and you gave a number of examples , one of them you said , er , we were covered by insurance |
| 23 | You also see at the bottom of the slide , I 've put two asterisks , on the twenty ninth and the thirtieth . |
| 24 | really see from that . |
| 25 | ‘ The thing you often see with young men is that they have had very little experience in dealing with people . |
| 26 | So you often see on nature programmes , for example , when a bird comes back to a nest with several chicks in , you see the parental bird kind of poking its , its beak in the in the gaping beaks of all the chicks . |
| 27 | As such , they often see through life and social skills training and develop common-sense critiques of the curriculum . |
| 28 | My talk , if you so wish to interpret it , is a reaction to the somewhat sterile presentation of the language which I so often see in textbooks and curriculum documents . |
| 29 | We 've been brought up to know that it ca n't last and we 're deeply suspicious of what we disdainfully see as decadent ‘ beach bimbos ’ . |
| 30 | Their Old Age , from fifty to 62 , we now see as part of Middle Age . |