Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] see [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 2 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
| 3 | When you 're not out walking around this lovely area of the Borders try seeing it from the back of a horse — the Westertoun Riding Centre will take you out on anything from an hourly ride to a half day trek through the Lammermuir Hills . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Captain Aranyos wants to see you in the south chapel of the Stefansdom at three o'clock , ’ she blurted before he had the opportunity to broach the subject . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Reception rang through and said there was a lady waiting to see me in the foyer . |
| 8 | Oh , and Frank wanted to see me about the car . |
| 9 | Mark Kiff went to see him on the day he took his test . |
| 10 | This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto . |
| 11 | She had brought her son over from South Africa and while staying in Bristol had seen me on the television screen . |
| 12 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
| 13 | ‘ Now that buyers have seen it on the Paris catwalks , it 's appearing again on the high street . |
| 14 | The elderly lady found a private moment in which to invite her hostess to come to see her in the room she occupied in her daughter 's house . |
| 15 | As an example , let's say a friend asks to see you in the morning before work because she wants to talk to you . |
| 16 | But when editors have seen it in the States they 've been very impressed but find it difficult to use . |
| 17 | Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners . |
| 18 | People had seen him in the park . |
| 19 | Her mother was n't at home , and her father wanted to see her to the car , which was parked in the street . |
| 20 | yeah people have seen them at the discos and , will do , and er even , even those that gives patterns or designs people are buying , have in the house now instead of watching television , sit and watch the pattern on the wall er , but erm |
| 21 | Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you . |
| 22 | ‘ Shirley says the Gresham 's buyer likes to see it on the wall when he visits . |
| 23 | If there is a problem try to see it from the child 's point of view . |
| 24 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 25 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |