Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] see [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we had to make a better road through the forest , although I see through the window that it 's grown up a bit recently . |
| 2 | I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to . |
| 3 | ‘ Once I saw in the studio one of the Target paintings , but it was the wrong year . |
| 4 | And er so you see on the wedding er card it had on er , Mr and Mrs Shaw request the pleasure of Mrs Abbott at their daughter 's wedding . |
| 5 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
| 6 | If you saw in the paper as I did . |
| 7 | Unless they see through the game , such children grow up to be victims and martyrs themselves . |
| 8 | When you see at the carpet place , they come on a nine foot |
| 9 | The grid screen is now shown , 45 squares wide and 38 squares high , as we saw for the intarsia chart printing . |
| 10 | As we saw with the Treasury , organisational culture will impact on budgetary behaviour . |
| 11 | ( But , as we saw in the Faulhaber example , not all average cost prices are sustainable in general . ) |
| 12 | As we saw in the case of the bacteria on a pin 's head , successive splittings into two can generate a very large number of cells in rather a short time . |
| 13 | Just as we saw in the case of a bank 's assets , these two criteria tend to conflict . |
| 14 | But , as we saw in the discussion of neoclassicism , it was unrealistic to suppose that questions of intent and responsibility could be abandoned . |
| 15 | I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 . |
| 16 | Of course , this reflects the very different role of the American courts vis-a-vis other governmental institutions but , as we saw in the discussion of courts and rights ( chapter 18 ) , if one has no right to information it becomes extremely difficult to exercise all manner of other rights . |
| 17 | There are still problems to iron out , and as we saw in the passage by Ross , there are still inconsistencies . |
| 18 | As we saw in the chapter dealing with rules , it is not enough for your punch to be an effective scoring technique ; it must be seen to be so , and this entails making its success obvious . |
| 19 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 20 | Feelings , as we saw in the entry under that heading ( see pages 66 to 69 ) , either help or hinder your behaviour . |
| 21 | As we saw in the section on deterrence , all the evidence is that the penal system is engaging in a massive overkill operation — which amounts to a massive infringement of the human rights of those it punishes excessively . |
| 22 | As we saw in the example of the cleaner fish ( pages 186–7 ) , reciprocal altruism is not confined to members of a single species . |
| 23 | Occasionally , the form of thought itself comes up for reassessment , and usually then as the result of some external influence ( as we see in the case of modern technology-driven medicine beginning reluctantly to embrace complementary medicine ) . |
| 24 | As we see in the passage above , Spenser also establishes from the outset the sense that Irish questions participate in larger questions of reformation and the establishment of civilisation . |
| 25 | Onomatopoeic effects are generally of this kind , as we see from the opening sentence of D. H. Lawrence 's Odour of Chrysanthemums ( see 3.4 ) : The small locomotive engine , Number 4 , came clanking , stumbling down from Selston with seven full wagons . |
| 26 | All these were themes of some contemporary importance , and , as we see from the Treasurer 's reports , money was voted for the expenses of the various eminent people drawing them up . |
| 27 | As we see from the passage I just quoted from Barthes , the work or labour that the writer puts into composing his text is brushed aside as of no importance . |
| 28 | An exciting game at Heathfield saw Dawn Nicholson top score on 22 points for the home team as they saw off the challenge of Shildon Aces by 68 points to 47 . |