Example sentences of "to see [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
2 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
3 | Sniffy was reasonably pleased to see them as the Goad men had been about to wreak vengeance on him for his revelations about the prison release dates being changed . |
4 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
5 | ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’ |
6 | I would like to see them for the Falls . |
7 | I would like to see them for the Shankill . |
8 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
9 | ‘ I 've to see them at the bank shortly — there 's that Buttering to be fixed , and no money for it wi'out they 'll give me a loan . ’ |
10 | ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said . |
11 | I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend |
12 | The public would still pay to see them at the cinema . |
13 | to see them at the Dinosaurs Alive and then they went to the museum . |
14 | You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ? |
15 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
16 | He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season . |
17 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
18 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
19 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
20 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
21 | Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter . |
22 | Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival . |
23 | I 've got a full-time job now , I hardly get to see them during the week . ’ |
24 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
25 | Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh . |
26 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
27 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
28 | They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’ |
29 | She could n't look out to see them in the yard . |
30 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |