Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] see the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I appreciate that I have to lead my group to see the story as symbol ? |
| 2 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 3 | Peasants might share their longing to see the abolition of taxes and noble landownership , but they could make little of the more visionary socialist elements of the young radicals ' propaganda , or indeed of their attacks on the revered Tsar . |
| 4 | Moreover , for all its reluctance to see the emergence of a proletariat detached from the land , the government became more and more firmly convinced of the need to encourage manufacture . |
| 5 | Because Carol was n't there , was n't arching her head to see the contents of a letter , it was not necessary for him to take the envelope into his own office . |
| 6 | Nothing could happen until the evening , but then Lucy got her chance to see the inside of Charlie 's office much sooner than she 'd expected . |
| 7 | When her father saw the evidence of this sin he condemned her to death . |
| 8 | On Easter Monday we went with ‘ the children ’ and their party to see the panegyri at Arachova , near Delphi . |
| 9 | She would have liked her mother to see the Cotswolds at their best . |
| 10 | A YOUNG council worker , who quit his job to see the world with his fiancee , died in a boating accident yesterday . |
| 11 | When one has told a friend about a stage performance or some media utterance that one feels he should go to see , one has performed that work to the friend and partly negated his need to see the work for himself . |
| 12 | The laibon says that his father saw the sense in it . |
| 13 | The early years of his tenure saw the creation under Ida Ward [ q.v. ] of the first department of the languages and cultures of Africa in a British university , and the successful negotiation of the school 's removal from the City of London to Bloomsbury . |
| 14 | 507 , which involved the identification of the driver of a car , counsel submitted that the trial judge should have granted his application to see the statement of the Crown witness who had given the police a description of the driver . |
| 15 | ‘ He may have a slight tear in his cartilage , and he will be going home so that a probe can be inserted into his knee to see the extent of the damage and what needs to be done . |
| 16 | ‘ Marler was on his way to see the chief on Dartmoor . |
| 17 | Or are we just creatures of our time , trapped by our failure to see the solutions around the corner of our life-span ? |
| 18 | ‘ Your mother saw the announcement in the paper , ’ Barbara said to James . |