Example sentences of "see [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | can vouch for that cos she 's seeing everyone at |
| 2 | Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't want to dry up , to be unemotional — to see nothing but actions being right or wrong ! |
| 4 | In the Hankses ' cottage , Tom rubbed the steam from the window and peered outside , able to see nothing but heavy snowflakes melting against the windows . |
| 5 | I hope you manage to see everyone during the holiday period , as I know how much that means to you . |
| 6 | Our attitude is that we want to see everyone in the six counties , whether Protestant or Catholic , active in the movement to attain civil rights for the people there . |
| 7 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 8 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 9 | He was staring out of the carriage window , seeing nothing of the countryside because the image of Sarah with Corrie Palmer in her arms was superimposed on everything he looked at , and it was then he remembered something important . |
| 10 | She walked the short distance to work , seeing nothing of the beauty of the day . |
| 11 | Growing up seeing nothing but these truly ghastly buildings , never using anything that is n't made of shoddy material , how could such children become people who would recognise and choose anything that 's beautiful ? |
| 12 | He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time . |
| 13 | They were nearing the auto now , plunging towards it , backing away , seeing nothing but each other . |
| 14 | Isabel glanced warily around at the silent forest , seeing nothing but dripping trees , ablaze with the autumn colours that even the dismal weather could not dim . |
| 15 | One morning I drove out on my rounds with the headlights blazing against the grey curtain ahead , seeing nothing from my tight-shut box . |
| 16 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 17 | Sometimes knowledge comes in a flash , sometimes one does not have to see someone for weeks at a time . |
| 18 | ‘ I have to see someone for a minute . |
| 19 | They say we all have our double , and it can be fascinating and sometimes puzzling by chance to see someone on TV , in the paper , or in the street who looks in every sense your mirror image , your stand-in should you ever become a star of stage and film . |
| 20 | ‘ He had to go to Burford to see someone about a new job . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ After all , I 've come to see someone about volunteering to go on a special mission to America . ’ |
| 22 | I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office . |
| 23 | He had n't been so pleased to see someone in all his life . |
| 24 | She walked in and around the corner , and her heart leapt to see someone in Carolyn 's bed . |
| 25 | ‘ If I were you , I would go to the conference centre itself and ask to see someone in security . |
| 26 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 27 | ‘ She wo n't want to see someone like you . |
| 28 | It 's just that I ca n't bear to see someone like you , Ruth , made miserable so worthlessly , and until you get some feeling of respect for yourself you 're never going to snap out of it , and you 'll go on being used as a doormat . |
| 29 | Nor is there any bar against seeing someone against whom you have made or are likely to make allegations of negligence , provided that you make this clear and the fact that they are not under any obligation to talk to you . |
| 30 | Their first instinct , upon seeing someone in distress , was to touch , to hug and hold . |