Example sentences of "who [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often these sorties would result in a skirmish with the pigeons , who presumably saw the ducks as invaders on their patch . |
| 2 | There was , nevertheless , an unusually large crowd , including one or two golf journalists who rarely saw a golf course . |
| 3 | One lady who only saw Terris once would not work in the station again and demanded a move to a ‘ normal station ’ . |
| 4 | I do not envy those who only see in them the messengers of evil tidings , forebodings of rain , and who think the landscape is devoid of loveliness because the sun does not shine — because there is not an Italian sky overhead , and that the open car or gig he travels in is not a Pullman car . |
| 5 | Not only clever , but extraordinarily attractive to women — and wealthy , of course , and it 's a sad fact of life that there are people in this world who only see money , only see advantage — and you would n't believe the number of begging letters he receives . |
| 6 | Why not at the party , from a woman who suddenly saw a way to wreak her spite not only on Parkin but on his ambitious young lover ? |
| 7 | The policy they embraced was however anathema to many Conservatives , who rightly saw in it the beginning of the end of British rule in India . |
| 8 | The decision to fight or pay can not therefore have been easy , not least because the Mercians and Northumbrians , who apparently saw considerably less of the enemy than the south and east , may often have been disinclined to do either . |
| 9 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 10 | The only of the government is that they waived it and the only other way is the A A who just see the pound notes coming in . |
| 11 | His parents were Anglo-Welsh , his father a beer-drinking , musical miner killed in a pit accident when the boy was fourteen ; his mother dogged , the one who bound a steel hoop of gentility around her Philip , the one who somehow saw him to the University of Wales from which he emerged aged twenty with a double honours degree in History and Mathematics . |
| 12 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 13 | For those critics who still see AI as a white Western organisation , such sights would have stunned their criticisms . |
| 14 | While it is doubtless heretical to question the divine rightness of ‘ market forces ’ , the endless and accelerating stream of virtually identical glib and glossy gardening , health , food and animal books puzzle those of us who still see books as rather more than just one more colour co-ordinated component in the interior decorator 's armoury . |
| 15 | On the one hand , the force is immensely distrusted by large sections of the Catholic community who still see it as an ‘ armed wing of unionism ’ , propping up an illegitimate regime . |
| 16 | You find people in places like New Zealand perhaps four generations away from Scotland who still see themselves as having a very important Scottish heritage . |
| 17 | While France stands shoulder to shoulder with Germany , and the two countries together account for half the EC output , the exchange rate mechanism will survive , representing a beacon of hope for federalists who still see a common currency as the bridge across which Europe must pass to a federal future , and a baleful threat for the sovereign Britishers , who see it as a black hole which could draw EC members inexorably into the same destiny . |
| 18 | Though ‘ t is confess't that those who ever saw |
| 19 | Who ever saw … an English leiger [ subject ] in the porch of the Grand Signior at Constantinople ? |
| 20 | Most of them broke when I peeled the real leaf off the chocolate which I 'd painted on — not quite up to Mum 's standards of patience and perfection , but who ever saw lots of perfect leaves ( not on a tree ) anyway . |
| 21 | He had lavished all his love on her , more so since her mother had died almost eighteen years ago , and , similarly , he was the only one who ever saw her vulnerable side . |
| 22 | Sandra , who once saw a bad LSD experience , became fixed to what he called a firm mystical path , seeking enlightenment even before it was fashionable . |
| 23 | The concept of indirect discrimination was , according to the councils , at first unfamiliar to police , who also saw no reason why black candidates might be put off by the former question three — which asked the country of origin of spouse or lover 's parents . |
| 24 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 25 | The allegations were greeted with incredulity by Western commentators , who also saw in Pavlov 's xenophobic and anti-free market assessments further confirmation of the ascendency of conservative thinking in the Soviet leadership . |
| 26 | American servicemen who also saw the film wrote to Kevin at Ysgol Iau in Llanrwst , to say thank you . |
| 27 | In emphasising form and the ‘ gratuitousness ’ to daily concerns Kolve is reflecting the writing of the Dutch anthropologist and philosopher Johan Huizinga ( 1970 ) who also sees play ( in all its senses ) as something apart from ‘ ordinary life ’ and as a means of ‘ creating order ’ . |
| 28 | The rise of Fascism was welcomed at the time , not only by the Italians but by many others , including the British Prime Minister , Baldwin , and Winston Churchill , who probably saw in the movement a bulwark against Bolshevism . |
| 29 | It was undoubtedly this conspicuous earthwork which attracted Philip Corder , who instantly saw the great challenge and possibilities it offered . |
| 30 | He had the distinction of being viewed with deep suspicion by Seán Mac Stíofáin and William Craig , who both saw him as being responsible for leading the republican movement in a Communist direction . |