Example sentences of "see [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He himself removed the aspidistra and put a match to the fire before departing to see about their frugal meal . |
| 2 | Many of the young couples that come here to see about their weddings , when asked , admit that their relationship had a pretty unspectacular beginning . |
| 3 | ‘ I was on my way to see about my trunks , ’ I started . |
| 4 | ‘ I was crazy to see a girl naked , and especially to see between her legs . |
| 5 | The tunic fitted over a loose linen shirt and was belted snugly by the sash that Riven was coming to see as his own . |
| 6 | It is worth seeing for its two marble medallions which show the Annunciation , with the angel on the left and the Virgin Mary on the right , the work of Agostino Busti . |
| 7 | Lynch made amends before long and equalised from close range , but that was all the reward Southwood were to see for their efforts . |
| 8 | She 's one of the old ladies I go to see for my Community Care Course . |
| 9 | Liberation does not mean slaying the dragon , but rising above it , growing beyond it , seeing through its tricks and laughing gently and lovingly when it snorts fire at us . |
| 10 | Even the attempted revisions of the discipline associated with the Scrutiny programme have failed due to its lack of positive practical goals : " False ideals are not destroyed merely by seeing through their linguistic dress , but by opposing them with stronger and better ones . " |
| 11 | ( Would he seize the chance to give her a message , without her mother seeing through her ruse ? |
| 12 | But Ramsey had an alarming faculty for seeing through his own utterances . |
| 13 | And Joanne 's seeing through his disguise made him a bit wary . |
| 14 | But his belief in the ability of the proletariat to see through their false consciousness through ‘ praxis ’ , relating knowledge to the material context of action , seems a vain hope — especially with hindsight . |
| 15 | A dead weight of darkness , trying to see through its eyes . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 17 | Thursday night in Galway is the night to be seen out in the town : - ) , but I 've still got more than the two brain cells needed to see through your ploy Tim . |
| 18 | The envious man is obsessively drawn to see through his rival 's eyes , the cruel man is as sensitive to a sufferer 's feelings as the compassionate ; and both are disinterested , in that it does not matter to them whether any injury they do is of benefit to themselves . |
| 19 | What 's going on behind the long face and the short , practical crop is nothing we 're going to see through his eyes . |
| 20 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 21 | THE FIRST and most serious change that Professor Horst Rollnik has seen during his 19-year long career at Bonn is the vast growth in the number of students , in all subjects including his own , physics . |
| 22 | ‘ Among changes he has seen during his career are the introduction of new painting materials and safety methods . |
| 23 | Was it you I s no it was n't you I seen about my ear , was it ? |
| 24 | It had been a convenient fiction to smooth the path towards what he must have seen as their inevitable destiny in that great , soft bed . |
| 25 | Within hours of the IDF departure Hezbollah militiamen returned to the villages , reportedly accompanied by members of what had hitherto been seen as their main rival within the Lebanese Shia population , the Syrian-backed Amal militia . |
| 26 | Certainly Sunday schools had the opportunity to advance working-class literacy , but that was not seen as their main purpose . |
| 27 | and so land reform was no longer seen as a means to achieve their end that they that and that it was n't the best policy to consolidate power , it was you needed to have the mass support there first so that 's why land reform was no longer seen as their goal so they did n't take it up at this point when one would expect them to pursue it . |
| 28 | The city , traditional centre of civilization , is here seen as its enemy : partly because too cosmopolitan , partly because too industrialized . |
| 29 | His earlier much-fabled ‘ ruthless determination ’ and fanatical single-mindedness were now becoming to be regarded as a major liability , and the command to the 6th Army to fight to the last man was seen as its fateful demonstration . |
| 30 | At the same time the Welfare State , designed to provide a safety net for those incapable of fending for themselves , was being rapidly expanded , and the NHS can be seen as its greatest and most enduring feature . |