Example sentences of "[be] see [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 2 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 3 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 4 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 5 | The Irish are seeing something of a cricketing revival … it 's the fastest growing sport in their home country , and they feel confident about taking on the World 's best . |
| 6 | Ca n't you stand the fact that I 'm seeing you as a fallible human being instead of the flawless cardboard cut-out you like to pretend to be ? ’ |
| 7 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 8 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 9 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 10 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 11 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 12 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 13 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 14 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 15 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 16 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 17 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 18 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |