Example sentences of "[conj] see [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals are easily marked-you can write on the shell with a pencil , paint numbers on it or saw grooves into the aperture . |
| 2 | An invitation has been extended to all staff to take their families or clubs and organisations on Come & See tours of the power stations : details from tel ; at Peel Park or Training , Visits & welfare offices at the power stations . |
| 3 | The idea that people operate ‘ strategies ’ in which they assess a range of options , and act to maximize their opportunities , has become an increasingly important insight in historical work on the family , and one which accords an active role to human beings in constructing their own lives , rather than seeing individuals at the mercy of large scale social forces ( Morgan , 1985 , p. 175 ) . |
| 4 | And at the same time , it owes its very existence to an alliance of social forces that sees government as the instrument of social domination — whether by a ruling class , a small party or tribal elite or a coalition of either with the bureaucracy of the state . |
| 5 | The antithetical models of design 's significance that we possess today , all of which contain implicitly or explicitly a view of " design-and-society " relations ( for example the view that sees design as merely the activity of commodity shaping , or the view that sees design as the activity which alone allows us to organise consciously the meeting of material human needs — which " involve things or usable products " — in forms consonant with and conducive to particular kinds of social relations or ways of life … ) contain also , naturally , a view of what design is . |
| 6 | Through Brian Way 's influence a new kind of college course was emerging that saw drama as the basis for the students ' own personal development . |
| 7 | and seeing England to the brink of victory . |
| 8 | We should distinguish between Ben Jonson 's desire to confirm his authority over his Workes — collecting and seeing texts through the press , attempting to control what was ascribed to him and how these texts were to be viewed , even trying to restrict his readership — and circumstances where such authorial interventions are absent . |
| 9 | He was sixty-four now , but as a young man he had been in the army and seen action on the North-West Frontier . |
| 10 | ‘ I have to go and see Sybil in the theatre every night . |
| 11 | You can come back and see Josh in the morning — but do n't think you can march in here and wheedle your way back into my heart in half an hour — not this time ! ’ |
| 12 | He scrambled over the fallen branch and saw Lee by the gate with the gun . |
| 13 | He happened to glance up and saw Beryl on the landing . |
| 14 | Hazel turned his head and saw Blackberry on the path . |
| 15 | I ca n't be sure what my face looked like when I opened it and saw Maureen on the doorstep , but I imagine it must have had a grin on it from ear to ear . |
| 16 | ‘ We heard the radio and saw photographs of the damage in the papers , ’ Damiani said . |
| 17 | They walked steadily nearer , and saw blood on the deck , looking blackish in the dim light . |
| 18 | ‘ As I watch , ’ she wrote , ‘ and it gradually gets later , I can begin to understand about different lights and see colours in the scene which I never before would have imagined … ’ |