Example sentences of "to see [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 2 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 3 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 4 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 5 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 6 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 7 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 8 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 9 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 10 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 11 | Right , as soon as we 've done this then we 'll have to go and have a , you can have a bath and mummy can have a shower because I 've got a lady coming to see me about a job . |
| 12 | Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies . |
| 13 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 14 | I 've been a candidate before , I do n't like to do things badly , since coming into politics I do n't think I have done things badly , I do n't want to fail you and I do n't want you to see me as a failure . |
| 15 | You 're about as pleased to see me as a peasant is to meet the tax-gatherer ! ’ |
| 16 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |
| 17 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 18 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 19 | Come to see me in a fortnight . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course I 'd like to see you with a few sheep , my lass , sheep being so close to my heart . |
| 21 | To see you as a domestic adviser is so funny ! |
| 22 | Trouble is , I 'm not going to be able to see you as a jolly , good-natured tomboy any longer , ’ he said huskily . |
| 23 | We 've come to see you as a friendly warning . |
| 24 | ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’ |
| 25 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 26 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've wanted to see you for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 28 | 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 " . |
| 29 | There 'll be someone to see you in a minute . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If he wants to kill you , why would he arrange to see you in a restaurant with the whole world looking on ? ’ |