Example sentences of "[pron] see [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard … |
| 2 | I remember the last time I saw Victor with a gun in his hand . |
| 3 | ‘ When I saw Ivo with a parcel he was about to mail to his wife 's cousin in Karlovy Vary , I told him I was driving that way , and that I 'd drop it into the shop where Edita 's cousin works if he wished . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I see scenes from a play ; I see myself … ’ |
| 5 | Like all fathers , I see fatherhood as a chance to turn over a new leaf . |
| 6 | These drawings stand as works in their own right , and in fact I see painting as an extension of drawing with the added dimension of colour . |
| 7 | ‘ I see Jim as a hero , ’ says the director , smiling . |
| 8 | In the opening shot I see Garfield at a lectern reading aloud from a Shakespeare first edition , bound in unborn calf . |
| 9 | ‘ You see , Jill , I see John as a sort of prisoner of war . |
| 10 | Then a small chill ran through her as the recalled the fortune-teller 's words : ‘ I see danger from a train ’ . |
| 11 | I see television as a sort of crime against the world . |
| 12 | This model has influenced most subsequent studies , whether in the functionalist accounts of Talcott Parsons and his followers ( who see economic ‘ modernisation ’ as the agent of change ) or in the orthodox Marxist version ( which sees change as an effect of capitalism ) . |
| 13 | Any view which sees self-affirmation in terms of an ‘ authentic ’ inner self arising from the smashing of a socially conditioned ‘ false self ’ , or which sees autonomy as a question of the origin of actions from ‘ inside ’ rather than ‘ outside ’ , is almost bound to adopt , however implicitly , a derogatory attitude towards those who are not yet ‘ authentic ’ . |
| 14 | They are facing formidable opposition in the shape of last year 's winner , Rosa Mota , who sees London as a warm-up for the Olympics , where she 'll be defending her title and looking to put the disappointment of the World Championships in Tokyo last year behind her . |
| 15 | She sees Cather as a writer whose work ‘ gets its energy from contraries ’ . |
| 16 | Dhanraj began by stating unequivocally that she saw film-making as a tool for socio-political challenge ( she would not go so far as to say change ) and that documentary was best suited to this purpose . |
| 17 | For her part Thatcher reiterated her support for rapid admission of the new East European democracies to the EC ( many observers suggested that she saw enlargement as a way of halting moves towards EC political and monetary union ) . |
| 18 | A seminal and key figure , at least in American education , has been Dewey , who was recommending in 1916 that schools should be organised as miniature democracies , and who saw education as a preparation for citizenship in a democratic society ( Dewey , 1916 ) . |
| 19 | First , we shall look at the view of Dr L , ( at the time of interview , the head of department at B ) , who saw physics as a discipline essentially concerned with fundamental rules and laws : |
| 20 | But now that I am , you see Marion as a threat to your position . |
| 21 | It is the symbolic violence of the teenager on the terraces , which spills over into the odd affray with visiting gangs that is more typical than the premeditated violence of disturbed or habitually aggressive individuals , who see football as a kind of arena for serious assault with little risk of arrest . |
| 22 | All this is combined with the resentment of ethnic minorities by those who see football as a way of reasserting their national pride . |
| 23 | Elsewhere he writes of the need to oppose those who see politics as a science , which would let Reason transcend the political . |
| 24 | Yet other organizations see marketing as essentially a selling activity , and finally , there are those who see marketing as an activity which begins and ends with the customer . |
| 25 | One looks at a star , one sees radiation from an object which may have a surface temperature of many thousands of degrees — in fact , internal temperatures of millions of degrees , but with a radio telescope one 's looking at very , very cold regions and these were totally inaccessible before the advent of radio astronomy , or of this type anyway , and for the first time one was able to see material spread between the stars rather thinly , but in fact in a very cold state . |
| 26 | Do we see appraisal as a process which in itself will lead to ‘ improvement ’ ( the control model ) , or as something which really only makes sense in the context of a fully developed staff development process ? |
| 27 | It was the only day of the week on which we saw Grandad in a suit with a tie , and in his Sunday boots . |
| 28 | ‘ We see art as an aspect of lifestyle ’ , explains Takashimiya vice president and gallery director Hiroak Yamamoto . |
| 29 | How far do they see publicity as an instrument of power ? |
| 30 | They saw Jesus as a threat to their legalistic religion . |