Example sentences of "[adv] see [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's these lectures which finally unbalance Bob Roberts , which shifts from crisp satire to stodgy tract under the sheer density of Robbins ’ disgust with US politics , losing along the way the warped rock ‘ n ’ roll and documentary trappings which give bite to the first film intelligent enough to see assassination as a career move for the victim . |
| 2 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 3 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 4 | He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while . |
| 5 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 6 | It was agreed that they would not see Minton for a while . |
| 7 | Many Christians do not see Jesus as a sacrifice in the same way . |
| 8 | Perhaps they can not see potential at a ground shorn of its wooden stands and surrounded by deprivation . |
| 9 | ‘ They should not see television as a panacea for all financial ills . ’ |
| 10 | It would be mischievous to suggest that the opponents no longer see safety as a problem , but it does seem to have receded from the foreground , despite the fact that — or could it be because ? — there was a serious nuclear accident in the US , in a PWR very different from that designed for Sizewell . |
| 11 | Patrick had always seen Jane as a maid , she walked , talked and acted as a maid . |
| 12 | Ever since their days as left-leaning indie rockers , The Shamen have always seen music as a medium for communicating ideas . |
| 13 | Jack always saw Piggy as a burden and if it had not been for Piggy 's spectacles Piggy would have been even more hated by Jack . |
| 14 | Roll up , roll up to see Charles with a roll-up ! |
| 15 | Viewers can also see Birds of a Feather , Last of the Summer Wine and Jasper Carrot . |
| 16 | It also saw service as a liaison aircraft and an aerobatic display and sporting type . |
| 17 | It added : ‘ They also saw students from a college being ordered out in front of the building , made to stand against the wall , and shot dead . |
| 18 | But the Buxton clan also saw emancipation as a family triumph . |
| 19 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 20 | Boss Ian Porterfield hinted he now sees Newton as a partner for the hapless Robert Fleck . |
| 21 | → We do n't really see Guitarist as a poster magazine , although we appreciate the fact that you approve so highly of James Cumpsty 's photos . |
| 22 | and , and , well and to you as well Viv but er I have n't seen Viv , I have n't seen Pete for a while . |
| 23 | Oh he 's in hospital , I did n't know a thing about it , I 've been saying when we 've been to the Pentam , we have n't seen Trevor for a while , we have n't seen Trevor , and even Barry at the Pentam did n't tell me , he thought I knew |
| 24 | In fact , whereas I would n't see art as a necessity , I would see the woman as a necessity . |
| 25 | You do n't see ducks with a bow-tie on . |
| 26 | But , when I was asked to go on a demonstration years ago , I did n't because I just do n't see gender as a problem . |
| 27 | I did n't see Ted for a while after that . |
| 28 | Following what has become known as the " Halévy thesis " , historians have more readily seen Methodism as a force for stability against " the threat of revolution " than as one which worked for it . |
| 29 | I had never seen Cherry in a suit before . |
| 30 | He never saw sex as a relief to this pain . |