Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However after today 's result Morland staff say no-one will ever see them as an easy target .
2 I 've looked with binoculars and I ca n't see them with the naked eye .
3 We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows .
4 Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror .
5 ‘ Could you ever see me as a full-time mother ? ’
6 What I would find off-putting is the idea that people would see me as a divorced man 's bit of light relief .
7 ‘ Can you see me as the Prime Minister 's wife living in Downing Street ? ’
8 They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name .
9 ‘ But tell me , dear boy , I do n't see you as a regular Informer reader ? ’
10 It is most important that the pupil , especially if he has difficulty with spelling , should see you as a sympathetic helper who wants him to learn , and not as an examiner who only tells him he 's wrong .
11 ‘ Some'ow I ca n't see you in a woolly 'at an' bedsocks . ’
12 I 'll come and see you in the mental hospital if you promise not to cause a scene .
13 Rory could see him through the open door as he crossed from the bungalow , through the yard of machinery and tractors , and into the business block .
14 I can see him through the open bar .
15 She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time .
16 ‘ Or do you see him as an inconvenient remnant of outmoded superstition — a bit like a gallstone — of which we must all be purged before religion can take on its true form , that is , without him . ’
17 We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela .
18 I ca n't somehow see him in a red riding coat being winched aboard a dappled stallion .
19 I said I did n't go out with married men and did n't see him in a romantic way . ’
20 ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’
21 One ca n't see him in an ambassadorial role at all can one ?
22 ‘ I just do n't see her as a full-time mother … ’
23 Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was .
24 I did n't want Mary to go because I thought I would n't see her for a long time , and I ran over to her and pleaded .
25 ‘ From what you 've told me , I do n't think we 'll see her for a long time unless your Mr Wyatt finds them , and while he thinks you are Dana he wo n't be looking very hard , will he ? ’
26 Yes , said Sister , Mrs Downes had been remarkably lucky , really ; and , yes , Sergeant Lewis could see her for a short while .
27 For a long while , I could see her in the rear-view mirror , standing in the dusty road in her long white dress , holding her child and looking after the Felder .
28 It was n't as if he could see her in the flimsy satin nightdress , was it ?
29 I did n't and could n't see it as a progressive condition which was bound to culminate in some sort of breakdown or breakthrough .
30 We do n't see it as a major problem to the properties around the green .
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