Example sentences of "see [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who do you see as the sort of holding responsibility for training ? |
| 2 | The problem has been yet further exacerbated in the modern age as compared with the patristic period by what one must see as the demise of the doctrine of the trinity and its replacement by a tritheism . |
| 3 | What do you see as the role of Government in promoting UK exports and how do you feel this compares with the support received by other European businesses ? |
| 4 | The mother you could see about the place , hurrying on the streets of Dynmouth , a woman with brass-coloured hair who sold clothes in a shop . |
| 5 | Oh , I see ah I thought they had sort of you know like fairy tales , you can see through the wall , that 's what they do put a camera in in , anyway it was rather funny and those birds come out and grow up quite quite wonderful . |
| 6 | You could see through the window . |
| 7 | All Robert could see through the keyhole was the blur of Mr Malik 's grey jacket , passing and repassing ; he seemed to be running , now in one direction , now in another . |
| 8 | Knowing the fact-presupposing explanation of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ we can see through the question , ‘ How can I mean anything by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ |
| 9 | On the first count , Parker tries to argue simultaneously that downsizing is a mirage and that even if it is n't a mirage then uses will see through the hype pretty soon . |
| 10 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
| 11 | Might see through the slaying , righting its wrong , |
| 12 | Ye can see through the back . |
| 13 | It would , I hoped , create the illusion that you could see through the base , dispelling any impression there was an operator inside . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 15 | They were not very young , and from the back-slapping and laughter I could see through the glass rear doors in fine form . |
| 16 | Ruth noticed , with a tightening of the throat , that she could see through the glass rubble . |
| 17 | If you ca n't see through the glass because of condensation , remove the lid for a few days . |
| 18 | No we 've got a shower with a glass thing and you can see through the glass thing |
| 19 | In the middle of the long teak dining table lay Lilian Hatton 's wedding hat , an elaborate confection of satin leaves and tulle as green and fresh as the real leaves he could see through the picture window in the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 20 | I looked at my watch , the time was just after 11 p.m. and I could see through the doorway the rain was still driving hard . |
| 21 | Till we had a customer do you see through the office in . |
| 22 | For a moment he could n't see through the train of bubbles left by the spear , which hit the fish dead centre and an inch behind the jaw hinge . |
| 23 | All you could see through the gap was a strip of wall and half a fridge . |
| 24 | So what we can see for the activist nought to three is a very low preference so Irene has come out as a , a very low preference on that , four to six is a low preference so that 's seven to ten is the sort of average so that one 's the average , that one |
| 25 | He could scarcely see for the blur of tears behind his spectacles , but he bent to investigate a glint of metal among the dust . |
| 26 | The jury will remain out for a year or two yet on whether the operating system can see off the threat from Microsoft Corp and its Windows NT , but Unix is definitely not winning big in the public relations stakes : the Wall Street Journal dismisses Unix as ‘ a catch-all term for many operating systems that share some features and a common parentage ’ . |
| 27 | The jury will remain out for a year or two yet on whether the operating system can see off the threat from Microsoft Corp and its Windows NT , but Unix is definitely not winning big in the public relations stakes : the Wall Street Journal dismisses Unix as ‘ a catch-all term for many operating systems that share some features and a common parentage ’ . |
| 28 | But this only makes the headache seems worse and taking some form of exercise , like a walk , could see off the headache more quickly . |
| 29 | And I could see during the week this was , in the mornings you know , say about eight or nine to ten in the morning , and I could see the figures of the ladies there , cleaning the windows in the morning . |
| 30 | My glasses are creased by running water and I can no longer see past the end of the boat . |