Example sentences of "[adv] see [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only see myself as a conversation piece , worth more as gossip than a fuck . |
| 2 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 3 | He would only see it as a weakness to be used against her , or worse , as an attempt to ingratiate herself . |
| 4 | I only saw him for a moment , but my blood seemed to freeze . |
| 5 | I only saw her for a day or two . ’ |
| 6 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 7 | It looked tall but I only saw it for a moment . ’ |
| 8 | Because of the mystique — and maybe the image — celebrities and VIPs are quite daunting to those who usually only see them from a distance . |
| 9 | But oh , Nicodemus if you only see him as a teacher you only see the minute part of me ! |
| 10 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 11 | I 'm beginning to think the fans will soon see me as a bit of a jinx . |
| 12 | As Dick comes to know Count Jasper he no longer sees him as a villain and realises that this inscrutable man is in his own way working for the same ends as the conspirators . |
| 13 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've only ever seen them from a distance , ’ the old man whispered . |
| 15 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 16 | Although the Club is a private one , we have always seen it as a service to the local community , particularly the younger members . |
| 17 | We have always seen it as a milestone on the road to closer integration and closer unity . |
| 18 | Ruth had never heard him speak with any seriousness before , had hardly seen him without a smile on his face . |
| 19 | Do you still see yourself as a socialist ? |
| 20 | She still sees him in a business capacity which I find ‘ odd ’ . |
| 21 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 22 | For adults it 's enjoyable to browse through , and kids will hopefully see it as a basis for future investigations into a wide range of subjects . |
| 23 | Now you will hardly ever see him in a canoe . |
| 24 | I 'd almost given up hope that you 'd ever see me as a girl … a woman . |
| 25 | I always saw myself as a creator of space for particular needs , and I found the best ideas which fitted in with that need and that slot and I then encouraged and challenged and stimulated and created the space for that production team to make that programme in the best possible way . |
| 26 | Back home you only ever saw one at a time . |
| 27 | Some people 's conception of God is simply of the old man with a beard in the sky ; others have a more sophisticated vision , but still see Him as a person , subject to feelings and emotions in the same way as human beings are ; yet others conceive of Him ( or , occasionally , Her — or , even , It ) as a creative force . |
| 28 | as if running away from his own mind the tragic Haffey emigrated to Australia where Scottish exiles still see him as a figure of unrivalled fun . |
| 29 | And , although we are in Division Four , other clubs still see us as a team they really want to beat . ’ |
| 30 | The service has proved willing to invest in Skymaster , even though the ‘ returns ’ are low at the moment , and clearly sees it as a thing of the future . |