Example sentences of "what we see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of what we saw related discouragingly to familiar bad habits , a thought that occurred , not for the first time , to George Cohen , who for the benefit of younger readers made a notable contribution to the history of English football when turning out in the 1966 World Cup final . |
| 2 | But what we saw was not a street in any real sense of the term . |
| 3 | Ten o'clock — we come in from the park and then write up what we saw and do a project on it . |
| 4 | From reports of the game and what we saw of Wright and Arsenal on TV , Graham could be doing Mr Buksh a big favour . |
| 5 | In February we were shown their drafts , and we did not like what we saw . |
| 6 | It came out of what we saw going on , the increasing pressure on kids today compared with how it was when we were growing up . |
| 7 | For the most part , what we saw in South Africa were the effects of the law in matches between teams of relatively high class on hard pitches with a dry ball — and with relaxed interpretations of the laws . |
| 8 | ‘ What we saw this evening has to be good for British tennis . ’ |
| 9 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 10 | " I must say from what we saw on our way here tonight the local female population seems fairly unapproachable , " said Chuck , " even though they look good in those snazzy little silk dresses . " |
| 11 | What we saw as an interesting and unusual opportunity , they saw as a second-best . |
| 12 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 13 | Guess what we saw when we looked in at their sitting-room window ? |
| 14 | In our detailed responses to the Secretary of State of the 30th October 1991 and the 10th June 1992 we highlighted what we saw as the threat to strategic planning policies , embodied in the existing county structure plans , as a result of the creation of 23–25 relatively small unitary authorities . |
| 15 | After what we saw and felt last night , we can not be surprised that Sir Charles died of fright . |
| 16 | ‘ None of us could be sure if we would have a job tomorrow ; the uncertainty was preventing us winning new business ; and we had looked at the various companies who were rumoured to be bidding for us and did n't like what we saw . ’ |
| 17 | You 'll , you 'll have noticed that er in reading that that it 's , it 's the part er on er Zeffirelli 's erm Jesus of Nazareth that erm that is actually what we saw on the film is actually what 's written here . |
| 18 | Wish fulfilments as we know , and what we saw about dreams and so on , so the pleasure principle that reigns in the unconscious . |
| 19 | Now having said all this you know let's not identify with these too much like the that 's me you know okay , it gives you an incl an idea of your in of your stance where what sort of attitude philosophy and behaviours you prefer to have within a group , okay and if you match those back to what we saw in the group erm then it 's not surprising that the group got on so well together and you know we did n't have too much conflict with the amount of team workers involved because nobody in there wanted to upset anybody else in the team . |
| 20 | ‘ We wanted to find out where this money could really make a difference and were excited by what we saw . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We were traumatised by what we saw , ’ he told a news conference . |
| 22 | ‘ I need to reflect upon what we saw at the Tower . ’ |
| 23 | So we 're just going to practise what we saw yesterday . |
| 24 | Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago . |
| 25 | To describe self-governed perceptual sequences , Kant gave the example of scanning the front elevation of a building ; in doing which we determine what we see and the order in which we see it — roof , front-door , top-left-hand window , and so forth . |
| 26 | No one would deny that enterprise and competitiveness are important ; but what we see around us today is the elevation of self-interest as something to be applauded . |
| 27 | JAZZ DANCE has caught on slowly in this country , and most of what we see is attendant on musicals , cabaret acts or pop videos . |
| 28 | True , he went to a lot of trouble to make his performance as authentic as possible ( 'he wo n't be satisfied till he 's assassinated , ’ friends used to say ) , but in the end what we see is still Massey , not Lincoln . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's always keeping his eyes on what the kids are wearing and nudging us about what we see out there , what we hear them asking for , ’ says Caroline Freeman , an Armanishly elegant stick insect who works on his British team . |
| 30 | They apply only to sight , and leave the reader assuming that , unlike what we see , what we touch exists independently of the mind . |