Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] 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 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 .
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 ‘ Now that buyers have seen it on the Paris catwalks , it 's appearing again on the high street .
5 But when editors have seen it in the States they 've been very impressed but find it difficult to use .
6 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
7 Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you .
8 If there is a problem try to see it from the child 's point of view .
9 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 .
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