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

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1 I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’
2 Monism , with its rejection of the form-meaning dichotomy , was a tenet of the New Critics , who rejected the idea that a poem conveys a message , preferring to see it as an autonomous verbal artefact .
3 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 .
4 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 ?
5 Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle .
6 Since the war both groups have come to see him as an unnecessary evil .
7 It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever .
8 The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change .
9 We 've come to see you as a friendly warning .
10 One , an older school , has seen him as a noble if embattled statesman .
11 The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement .
12 As soon as voters came to see it as a real choice between Labour and the Conservatives , thousands of waverers who had told the polls they were going to vote Labour or Liberal Democrats , clearly decamped .
13 Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order .
14 We hope to see you at the grand final in London .
15 I hope to see you on the 29th at Bronllys .
16 We hope to see you on the 7th December , especially people from the south and west of the county .
17 Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time .
18 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 .
19 ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’
20 I 'd like to see them in the first division .
21 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 .
22 ‘ Of course I 'd like to see you with a few sheep , my lass , sheep being so close to my heart .
23 ‘ If I have to look at you , ’ Aunt Emily said without rancour , ‘ I should like to see you in a new dress .
24 ‘ When you 're through , sir , the CO would like to see you in the Orderly Tent . ’
25 President of the Europe Commission , Jacques Delors , would like to see it as the only EC currency , but John Majors wants it to circulate alongside other currencies .
26 In a recent NCT survey , 19 out of 20 British people said they approved of breastfeeding in principle , but did n't like to see it in a public place .
27 You began to see them in the expensive cars .
28 Bob Rafelson had been toiling with Nicholson 's friend and associate Carol Eastman on a script for a new film and as it came towards completion , they began to see it as a perfect vehicle for BBS to capitalize on its success with Easy Rider .
29 I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back .
30 The 1608 Lear is published by the Oxford editors because they feel it sufficiently different from the Folio version to justify seeing it as a separate aesthetic entity .
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