Example sentences of "he [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 2 | But he eventually sees their potential and cleans up his act just in time . |
| 3 | He rarely saw her naked , which was a relief to him . |
| 4 | It was Banting , the crown undertaker , who provided the model for the future ; for he rarely saw a corpse , contracting out at every stage of the proceedings . |
| 5 | His marriage has broken up , he rarely sees his teenage daughter and he faces a bleak future . |
| 6 | He apparently sees Novell as the Grinch who will steal open systems . |
| 7 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For a flinty second I see a smile in his eyes , he obviously sees my frame of mind clearly . |
| 10 | You know he obviously sees rich peasants as you know a more er unattractive class of peasant , I mean he sees the poor peasants as the real er vanguard of the revolution , the people who have done all the work and erm sacrificed er security at an early stage |
| 11 | But his grandfather he only saw in brief glimpses , when James called in the hope of being given a shilling . |
| 12 | Said he only saw me because he knew I would bring a present . ’ |
| 13 | He only saw Emily Groundwater once again in his life , and that was at a soirée at the Heathertons ' , to which he was invited because the Professor had told the chaplain of Paul 's impending journey to Oxford . |
| 14 | A juror asked what the comforts were , for he only saw a little straw in the corner of the room , the windows of which were broken . |
| 15 | ‘ He only saw the shintiyan ! ’ |
| 16 | Soon-Yi was responding to a televised statement by Allen that he only sees her on weekends and holidays . |
| 17 | He … he only sees me as a … a dear friend . |
| 18 | He , it , it is , he gets on very well with her , I mean he only sees each other |
| 19 | Well I think Lee , he , he just realise , I mean I mean he only sees her once a week any way , does n't he ? but you know , she is , she is a lovely girl |
| 20 | In sum , Waugh was conservatively anti-modern rather than right-wing , and racialism ( as he rightly saw ) was ‘ rather modern ’ — meaning Victorian , unlicensed by traditional religion and unknown to the universal Church . |
| 21 | François de Callières , the French diplomat who wrote in the 1690s the best-known diplomatic manual of the period , pointed out that the cities of Bologna and Ferrara , now incorporated in the papal state , still sent " diplomatic deputations " to the pope and that in Spanish-ruled Sicily Messina , until the rising of 1674 there , had been able to send similar deputations to Madrid ; but he rightly saw these as unimportant hangovers from the past . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On 30 June 1921 these elements coalesced and he suddenly saw that familiar landscape with new eyes . |
| 24 | Clearly to be grasped with all his senses , he suddenly saw again the scenes of his happiness , his first , great , boundless happiness . |
| 25 | He struggled with Manchester United , too , until he suddenly saw the light and realised he was going nowhere . |
| 26 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 27 | He suddenly saw Annabel passing in the street outside . |
| 28 | He suddenly saw that she was crying , though she said it was because of looking at the fire . |
| 29 | He spoke sharply ; he suddenly saw Emmie growing up like his mother , stern , conscience-mad , depriving everyone of their fun . |
| 30 | As Zen came through the door he suddenly saw an opening and lunged forward , so that for the next thirty seconds or so he was unable to reply to his visitor 's question . |