Example sentences of "[adv] see [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 2 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 3 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 4 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 5 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 6 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 7 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 8 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel very angry that you always see me in the same negative way . |
| 10 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 11 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 12 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 13 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 14 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 15 | I mean he kept , I mean he did n't do anything to the city you ca n't even see it from the old one 's still standing and it 's in the wrong it 's so nice . |
| 16 | I 've looked with binoculars and I ca n't see them with the naked eye . |
| 17 | They do n't er , you ca n't see them in the same way you could go and see your parents . |
| 18 | Yeah , we with this been ongoing , we 've given a hundred and fifty pounds to it , erm , well I say I do n't see it on the top one . |
| 19 | ‘ Pity everyone does n't see it in the same light . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't see us as the best band in the world ; we 're just putting out records because the rest of the music scene is so crap at the moment . |
| 21 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 22 | you never see them across the other side |