Example sentences of "see [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she glared at him , he continued , ‘ So get used to the fact that , if you plan on staying on here , you will unfortunately be seeing rather a lot of me . |
| 2 | They were very disappointed to see only a dirty , black-haired gipsy child . |
| 3 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 4 | Few people were about , owing to the lateness of the hour , and the guards around the entrance of each tower she passed , glanced briefly at her and turned away , seeing only a woman of indeterminate age , muffled in a hooded cloak such as was worn by serving-women everywhere . |
| 5 | Here , truly , is a place to sense freedom , to be away from the crowds and the pressures of the world , to wander for miles seeing only a handful of people enjoying the same leisurely activity , or maybe no-one at all . |
| 6 | But Kraal only shook his head and stared mournfully out on to the lovely morning , seeing only a memory of an old eagle he had argued with but always loved and who would never come back . |
| 7 | I would describe our time in Siret as being able to see just a few rays of light in a very dark week . |
| 8 | Sort of looking out of your window and seeing just a blank concrete wall in front of you , day after day after day . |
| 9 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 10 | He said , you 're like a kid trying to see over a six-foot wall . |
| 11 | Aw , hell , said the slut in her , it 's me she 's come to see not a tidy flat . |
| 12 | The planned Leipzig Museum for Contemporary Art was conceived back in 1987 , before the reunification of Germany , as a place in which art from both East and West could be seen together a means of ending the isolation that East German museums found themselves in . |
| 13 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook said earlier , we have seen only a few small and rather insignificant measures that do not add up to a large impact on our criminal justice system , which is crying out for fundamental change . |
| 14 | The size , amplitude and repeat period of these events vary and those during the satellite pass are weaker than those seen just a few minutes earlier . |
| 15 | But sometimes she had seen just a glimpse , a fragment , of an unknown person , deep and inward-looking , complex , full of contradictions . |
| 16 | Jerrome ( 1982 ) has explored the significance of a confidante for older women in maintaining life satisfaction , even if that person is only seen once a year . |
| 17 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 18 | Over the past twenty years I have seen about a dozen performances of Hamlet , a play which was also constantly revived in the early seventeenth century . |
| 19 | He is seen here a year later with his Tomahawk fighter when once more serving in North Africa . |
| 20 | The blood , the gaping holes , the bone sticking out of flesh , the stench of burst intestines — I am telling you this only because the effect on me , a boy who had never seen even a peacefully dead body before that day , was one I should never have predicted . |
| 21 | Now they were all busily employed in setting to rights the big front saloon — a difficult task , for all its furniture was large and heavy and the carpets had not seen even a brush for years and years . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've seen quite a lot of completely sterile ears in winter barley , which is due to frost on secondary tillers . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've also seen quite a difference in our seed rate trials , with the lower rates giving a better pod set , possibly because bees have been able to get into the crop . ’ |
| 24 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 25 | Although the past few months have seen quite a number of problems for European unity , one area that remains firmly fixed is the demolition of trade barriers in 1993 . |
| 26 | The last few years have seen quite a shake up in the leasing market . |
| 27 | ‘ I have seen quite a few races on television and the competition is really good . ’ |
| 28 | You 've obviously seen quite a lot of good painting . |
| 29 | I 've seen quite a few er in the so well you see we belong wi the Guild is fit into three tiers . |
| 30 | We 've seen quite a lot of you lately . ’ |