Example sentences of "see [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the stages that Weiser finds of ‘ advance in personal knowledge ’ , a ‘ basic transition ’ here , a ‘ discovery ’ there , one which ‘ begins to dissolve ’ the speaker 's ‘ coherent identity ’ ( a development which the sceptic may see as a rationale for the failure of an analytical method ) — stages of awareness that lead to a final collapse : all this seems to me fictitious , revealing the critic 's categories rather than the poet 's . |
| 2 | Apart from what Dora would see as a disaster for her friend , her own life-style could be on the line . |
| 3 | To call someone a nutter , however , is not to use what they would see as a term of abuse . |
| 4 | A. J. P. Taylor 's grandfather , a businessman who had no doubt read the book , put the point more succinctly in the early months of the First World War : ‘ Ca n't they see as every time they kills a German , they kills a customer ? ’ |
| 5 | Who do you see as the sort of holding responsibility for training ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | What the workers might think is a lively practical joke , management may regard as disruption or sabotage ; what workers might see as an intensification of their labour , management may regard as an improvement in flexibility , and so forth . |
| 9 | But Hitler made world Christianity something that for a moment even people in the pews could see as an expression of peace , and amity , and human rights , and the moral law in politics . |
| 10 | It is preferable to smack the dog with your hand rather than use a rolled-up newspaper which the dog may see as an extension of the game , especially if it gets excited and a tug-of-war ensues . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ How odd that you did n't immediately see through a phony like Giles Denton , ’ he grated , totally ignoring her interruption , ‘ and after agreeing to take a cruise with a man you admit you hardly know , you end up in custody accused of drug-smuggling . |
| 13 | Cos you do n't see through a joke . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You could see through the window . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Might see through the slaying , righting its wrong , |
| 21 | Ye can see through the back . |
| 22 | It would , I hoped , create the illusion that you could see through the base , dispelling any impression there was an operator inside . ’ |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | They were not very young , and from the back-slapping and laughter I could see through the glass rear doors in fine form . |
| 25 | Ruth noticed , with a tightening of the throat , that she could see through the glass rubble . |
| 26 | If you ca n't see through the glass because of condensation , remove the lid for a few days . |
| 27 | No we 've got a shower with a glass thing and you can see through the glass thing |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Till we had a customer do you see through the office in . |