Example sentences of "seeing [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall be seeing them at the weekend . ’ |
| 3 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 4 | Misperceptions of elderly people — from seeing them as a burden and expecting them to be docile , to assuming that older people can not be aggressive or violent — play a part in how physical abuse is perceived . |
| 5 | The tribes that had emerged from much earlier migrations were the Iceni and that of Cassivellaunus , who was clearly hostile to the newcomers , seeing them as a threat round the northern borders of his kingdom . |
| 6 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 7 | The emphasis , therefore , shifts away from the uneven development of class relations and towards elites within the state apparatus , seeing them as the key , relatively autonomous decision-makers . |
| 8 | Here the unconscious mind takes the more specific form of Christabel 's sexuality and sexual desires , which she has been taught by her upbringing to disregard , and even to suppress , seeing them as the dark and evil side of human nature . |
| 9 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 10 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 11 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 12 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 13 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 14 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 15 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 16 | Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack . |
| 17 | But I was thinking , looking at them — ’ he gestured towards the tourists — ‘ seeing them in a group , it reminded me of a time in cadet school . |
| 18 | As we praise God for all our circumstances , seeing them in the light of his presence and love , then we become literally ‘ thankful persons ’ , transfused by a new radiance of joy and thanksgiving . |
| 19 | However , apparently you have no trouble seeing me as a thief ! ’ |
| 20 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 21 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 22 | Or perhaps it was just shock at seeing me without the gag . |
| 23 | Seeing me in a state of bewildered angst , they would come up and intone directions in a rhythmical and mysterious language . |
| 24 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 25 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 26 | He was staring out of the carriage window , seeing nothing of the countryside because the image of Sarah with Corrie Palmer in her arms was superimposed on everything he looked at , and it was then he remembered something important . |
| 27 | She walked the short distance to work , seeing nothing of the beauty of the day . |
| 28 | He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time . |
| 29 | Ferdinando was far too old , but only mention the cause and he would be into his old daydreams , seeing himself at the head of a column moving relentlessly on the Austrians . |
| 30 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |