Example sentences of "see [prep] a [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Cos you do n't see through a joke . |
| 6 | Pedro How would you like to not see for a couple of days ? |
| 7 | I ca n't see for a moment because of the crowd . |
| 8 | But what do tourists actually see during a visit to India ? |
| 9 | As you will see below a photograph of the ‘ CIBS ’ team was taken after the Charity Match , please appreciate that we are not looking our usual stunning selves , but unfortunately rouge and hairspray are not allowed on court ! — no comments please Harris … |
| 10 | Although Glam was finally banished it was not before he had cursed his employer , saying he would ‘ see with a ghost 's sight ’ . |
| 11 | Scrolling through documents is noticeably faster , but the main boost is noticed when moving big chunks around the screen — grabbing a window and shifting it results in a much faster update than you would see with a bog standard VGA card — even a Tseng Labs ET4000 chip set unit ( the ET4000 chipset is probably the fastest of the non-accelerated chipsets ) . |
| 12 | As it is , Bernard has no intention of trading in his guitar for anything you might see in a Kraftwerk video . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll see in a minute , ’ said his Mum . |
| 14 | But , as we shall see in a minute , that was exactly what was happening . |
| 15 | But also of course there was this propaganda from from the government you know that erm they 'd just got to keep up morale and this was one one way as you will see in a minute of how they did it . |
| 16 | Light brown leather jacket , we 'll see in a minute on the video |
| 17 | What , right then we 're gon na see in a minute when we turn the video , see if you 're right . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll see in a minute . |
| 19 | I 'll see in a minute . |
| 20 | We 'll see in a minute . |
| 21 | Within any major class characterized on the basis of its gating properties subclasses can be defined according to their ionic selectivity , but also according to their er pharmacological properties , and especially as we 'll see in a second , according to their single channel conductance . |
| 22 | And there 's one hanging in the village that you 'll see in a window . |
| 23 | Midsummer Night 's Dream , I. ii , ‘ a proper man as one shall see in a summer 's day ’ , DS 18 . |
| 24 | Behind her I could see into what is rather optimistically known as the vestry — which is nothing more than a curtained-off area of the floor , rather like what you might see in a hospital casualty ward . |
| 25 | Although a skeleton staff had been left behind to keep the houses dusted and secure and though there were more of us in the compound than the average Western home would see in a month , there was an air of loneliness , an awful stillness as though the heart had been removed from the body . |
| 26 | It looked like something you might see in a photograph of black New Orleans in the thirties . |
| 27 | Anybody with a tape measure could see in a matter of minutes that the figures on these marbles have nothing whatever in common with the Greeks of today who , short-legged and stocky with low-slung , hairy bottoms , blunt noses and crossed eyebrows , are plainly a race of Turkic origin . |
| 28 | I use the word ‘ disease ’ loosely here as , as we shall see in a moment , it may not be attributed directly to a disease infection . |
| 29 | ( They can also be removed in other ways as we 'll see in a moment ) . |
| 30 | The love of God , the war with the Devil , and many of the earlier incarnational theories of atonement ( which we will see in a moment ) fell away to be replaced by a story of God 's wrath and its appeasement by Christ 's death . |