Example sentences of "see [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This punctuation would have made some difference to the reader 's processing of the sentence ; [ 14 ] in particular would have made the " click " seem a matter of importance and surprise in its own right , dividing the reader 's attention between the two events , instead of making him see them as integral parts of a whole . |
| 2 | It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are |
| 3 | Non-believers will see them as misguided optimists at best and fools at worse . |
| 4 | But victory will see them as serious threats to England 's hopes of making it to the finals in 1994 and Gullit may well take Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti 's offer to join Gazza . |
| 5 | In another language where mother 's brothers and father 's brothers are referred to by different words we would see them as different kinds of relatives . |
| 6 | You would probably see them on front doors and perhaps some of you have already got them , where about a third of the way up is a little brass plate , and it 's an integral lock that 's fitted into the door . |
| 7 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 8 | You could just see them at low water and er that was one of the danger points but I 've never seen ships coming close to Skerrymor at all . |
| 9 | Frankly , it wo n't break my heart if we do n't see them at all . ’ |
| 10 | I may be that , like the street cars of San Francisco , artists living in London see them so much , they do n't see them at all . |
| 11 | I do not see them at all . |
| 12 | I may be that , like the street cars of San Francisco , artists living in London see them so much , they do n't see them at all . |
| 13 | They all just go past me with their baked beans and their fish fingers and washing powder and chocolate biscuits , and my fingers punch the right figures on the till and I do n't see them at all . |
| 14 | I thought you ca n't see them at all can you |
| 15 | Many of the residents in homes for the elderly have no family , and many that do never see them from one year to the next . |
| 16 | On a clear day you can see them from 20 miles away at Port Isaac . |
| 17 | But Crosby wo n't see them in reserve team action tonight because he 's set to be away on scouting business . |
| 18 | The critic is not some simple custodian of these museum texts whose task it is to keep the displays polished so their readers can see them in clear unreflected light . |
| 19 | The parents ca n't see them like this . ’ |
| 20 | Did Quigley see me as some kind of John the Baptist figure ? |
| 21 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 22 | Her and Kate will come and see me at four o'clock and her and Kate will come and visit you . |
| 23 | The minute they say well , no that 's no good to me , you 'll have to come and , you 'll have to come and see me at eight , say , well I 'm busy then I 'm afraid . |
| 24 | I mean you 'll have to come and see me about that because it 's fairly confidential so but they are very very good . |
| 25 | But he wo n't see me through all the steam and the smoke . |
| 26 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman had the opportunity to tell the gentleman that he might well see me in future as I shall be returning to the town in which I was born . |
| 27 | I listened to myself make a horrible noise like Eric going crazy over the phone , and hoped that nobody was passing and could see me in such an undignified and weak position . |
| 28 | I had intended to emerge while Mr Cardinal was still a reasonable distance away , so that he would see me in good time and suppose I was on my way to the summerhouse , or perhaps to the gardener 's lodge . |
| 29 | " They said they 'd see me in three years to do my D.Phil. at Oxford . |
| 30 | One moment she 's kissing me , and the next she 's telling me she ca n't see me till next week . |