Example sentences of "[adv] see [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 3 | In the situations where the actor does not desire the result , but merely sees it as a foreseeable outcome of his conduct , the House of Lords has said that there is merely evidence from which the tribunal of fact can infer that he intends . |
| 4 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 5 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 6 | That 's how I think of it : as my home , even though I only see it for a short time every year . |
| 7 | ‘ But they obviously see it as an important matter of principle , so I ought not to stand in their way . ’ |
| 8 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 9 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 10 | I ca n't somehow see him in a red riding coat being winched aboard a dappled stallion . |
| 11 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 12 | Could just see it in a Trivial Pursuit question |
| 13 | But most just see it as a fun way of relieving stress . |
| 14 | Looking back on the bitter , dangerous adventure he undertook in her service , years later , Hi Ridden still sees her in a romantic light : |
| 15 | The world still sees me as a nasty kid |
| 16 | ‘ Could you ever see me as a full-time mother ? ’ |
| 17 | However after today 's result Morland staff say no-one will ever see them as an easy target . |
| 18 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 19 | Although her maximum grant is only £2,845 a year , the banks still see her as a good catch . |
| 20 | The young teacher who enjoys his work but also sees it as an attractive life style . |
| 21 | But I really also see us as a great link between our two countries . |
| 22 | Although at the local level we will be pursuing similar objectives , when it comes tot he wider national issues , it will be CPRW that speaks out for those who not only care about the Park , but also see it as a special part of a special country . |
| 23 | ( It is worth adding that multiculturalists are prone to another essentialism with regard to the state , often seeing it as a neutral and uncontradictory vehicle for educational and other reforms — see Troyna 's critique ( 1987b ) of the Swann Report . ) |
| 24 | Questions are raised but not answered and the next car commercial appears — but are you now seeing it through a different pair of glasses ? |
| 25 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 26 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 27 | I really saw him as a wicked murderer . |
| 28 | John presumably saw it as a figurative event which symbolised the purpose of Jesus ' ministry . |
| 29 | I 've even seen it on a Finnish bus-shelter . |
| 30 | I mean he kept , I mean he did n't do anything to the city you ca n't even see it from the old one 's still standing and it 's in the wrong it 's so nice . |