Example sentences of "to see [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 2 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 3 | Yes I w I I would think so I mean it it wo n't occur in five minutes of course erm and I I would still say that I would like to see them in the six yard box more often . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 5 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 6 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 7 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 8 | In the 1930s , Mr Justice Stone declared that the United States Supreme Court ought not to see itself as the sole guardian of the constitution . |
| 9 | We hope to see you at the grand final in London . |
| 10 | ‘ When you 're through , sir , the CO would like to see you in the Orderly Tent . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 12 | This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them . |
| 13 | Sarah asked the nanny , standing on tip-toe to see herself in the gilt-framed mirror in the hall . |
| 14 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 15 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 16 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
| 17 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 18 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
| 19 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 20 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 21 | The stairs were cold and draughty and the light was n't good , but she 'd placed herself so that the agency 's receptionist would be able to see her through the glass-panelled door if she should happen to glance up . |
| 22 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 23 | FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … . |
| 24 | Virgin Atlantic , as the new airline was to be called , would need to become airborne within the next three to four months , to take advantage of the summer traffic and generate the necessary cash reserves to see it through the fallow winter months . |
| 25 | In fact , a musical dedicated to Elvis is on tour , giving two fans the chance to see it for the FORTIETH time . |
| 26 | I have never been able to see it with the naked eye ( as some observers claim to have done ) , but it is not hard to find with × 7 , and it is easy with × 8.5 . |
| 27 | As evolutionists we are tempted to see it as the only kind of robustness that matters . |
| 28 | I was doing the Mujahadeen side for Life and one day I thought it would be a great story to be in Kabul when it fell , to see it from the Mujahadeen side . |
| 29 | It was like a fog to see it from the main road . |
| 30 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |