Example sentences of "[adj] see [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some see it as the perfect exercise for keeping fit ; others train purely for self-defence purposes . |
| 2 | The fact that ‘ She ’ appears to those privileged to see her as a veiled figure and that her lustrous orbs , dazzling limbs and perfect ankles are revealed with tantalising slowness , has a rather different effect on today 's readers than it no doubt had when the book was first published , very nearly a century ago , in 1887 , to be greeted with a storm of ecstasy or alternatively of appalled disapproval , which lasted for many decades . |
| 3 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
| 4 | In other words while the public may have all watched the same news they did n't all see it in the same way . |
| 5 | The whole incident had been exaggerated with talk of a threat to the institutions of government , and many saw it as a further example of the insensitivity of the Republican administration to the human sufferings of the period . |
| 6 | Many saw it as an ideal opportunity for the Prince and Princess to put on a united front , quashing speculation over their marriage . |
| 7 | Scotland does not have national parks at the moment , and many see them as a nasty English invention . |
| 8 | In so doing , it may also win new respect in other areas of physics , where many see it as a fascinating but over-costly irrelevance . |
| 9 | The stairs were cold and draughty and the light was n't good , but she 'd placed herself so that the agency 's receptionist would be able to see her through the glass-panelled door if she should happen to glance up . |
| 10 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 11 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 12 | Trouble is , I 'm not going to be able to see you as a jolly , good-natured tomboy any longer , ’ he said huskily . |
| 13 | I have never been able to see it with the naked eye ( as some observers claim to have done ) , but it is not hard to find with × 7 , and it is easy with × 8.5 . |
| 14 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |
| 15 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 16 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 17 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 18 | People certainly built last year who first saw us at the Ideal Homes Exhibition in 1984 and 1985 . |
| 19 | It was difficult to see her through the dazzling spurts of fire ; she seemed to be less and less there . |
| 20 | There was a good deal of shrubbery trailed up the sides and it would have been difficult to see us by a casual glance along the terrace . |
| 21 | So we have four , five six , seven , eight , nine we have n't even got enough to see us through the next twelve months . |
| 22 | When she spent all night every night watching her clientele , her boys , it was for this ; she was waiting for her chosen ones , the last of her protegés , her perfect couple , her two to see her through the dark times . |
| 23 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 24 | Leslie had an aunt in Durban , but by great misfortune disembarkation was on this occasion not allowed , and he did not meet the relative who had last seen him as a little boy in Scotland . |
| 25 | ‘ A year ago , he was driving a new BMW 5-series car , but I last saw him in an E-registered Ford Fiesta . ’ |