Example sentences of "see [pron] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 He may meet in private with his lawyer , but access to his family is severely restricted : he can see them for no more than one hour a month , under tight surveillance .
2 That should see me for a while .
3 And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them .
4 Riven could see nothing for the water in his eyes , but when the dark shape of the hull loomed up he pushed Madra towards it .
5 ‘ Can I see you for a minute ? ’
6 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 " .
7 I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train .
8 It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’
9 I said , you may go and see him for a minute , he 's out .
10 They let us see him for a couple of minutes , and then they took us back to the prison .
11 She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up .
12 She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time .
13 I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit .
14 Gusev 's family did n't see him for the rest of the weekend .
15 One day soon she would see him for the last time .
16 Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake .
17 You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’
18 I did n't want Mary to go because I thought I would n't see her for a long time , and I ran over to her and pleaded .
19 Your wife 's very tired — she 's bound to be weak , after losing so much blood — but you can see her for a few minutes . ’
20 ‘ From what you 've told me , I do n't think we 'll see her for a long time unless your Mr Wyatt finds them , and while he thinks you are Dana he wo n't be looking very hard , will he ? ’
21 He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while .
22 ‘ Well now , I could see her for a moment .
23 Yes , said Sister , Mrs Downes had been remarkably lucky , really ; and , yes , Sergeant Lewis could see her for a short while .
24 This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable .
25 At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple .
26 The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore .
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