Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] see [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subconsciously they 're frightened , so they put off seeing a doctor . ’ |
| 2 | For one parent , for instance , it was public attitudes , in that ‘ people only see the disability ’ : ‘ That 's what 's wrong with society as a whole : they do n't see the person . ’ |
| 3 | They do n't see the person they do n't see the er the they 're kept separate but erm the they are rehearsed . |
| 4 | Cos in the morning they get the sun from that direction , then they do n't see the sun again for a bit and then it turns up suddenly from over there . |
| 5 | I do n't mean that Elgar is a sensuous composer , but I mean the fluidity of Elgar , which is very much his style , which we admire and which is part and parcel of our sort of heritage , they do n't see the point of it , they ca n't really enter into the spirit of it . |
| 6 | They are unpopular with teenage mothers , however , either because they do n't see the importance of going , or sometimes because they have been deterred by their experiences at classes where the other mothers are older and married . |
| 7 | " And " is by no means always used in its Boolean sense ( consider " yachting and boating " ) , but " or " usually is so intended ( people use " or " rather than " and " when they do not see the concepts which it separates as being particularly closely related ) . |
| 8 | But that is a pity , for then they do not see the wood for the trees . |
| 9 | Pretend they do not see the degradation |
| 10 | Pupils are tempted not to do the job properly because they do not see the work as proper' maths . |
| 11 | Weick ( 1985 ) says that , because people persist in simplifying the world , they do not see the differentiations between organizations and within organizations over time . |
| 12 | Birds , like planes , usually face into the wind , so they do not see the plane coming . |
| 13 | There was a phrase screeched into the microphone by a hoarse-voiced member of Socialist Workers ' Students ' Organization : ‘ The government must be deaf , dumb and blind if they do not see the madness of this war . ’ |
| 14 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 15 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 16 | They 've never seen the people they phone them every week saying do you want a fifty pound advert in a paper which is dumped the next day . |
| 17 | I do n't know if they have even seen the baby ’ . |
| 18 | From what I have gathered from talking to other business people they have also seen an increase in business . |
| 19 | ‘ In Helsinki , Finland , they have n't seen a case for nearly two years . |
| 20 | The chemists say they were promised that they 'd be paid for providing the service , but so far they have n't seen a penny . |
| 21 | They have n't seen the car , remember . |
| 22 | Both Sotheby 's and the lawyers for Lord Northampton have assured us that up till now they have not seen a shred of proof . |
| 23 | Although they have only seen the creature far away , it is exactly like the hell-hound of the Baskerville story . |
| 24 | They have all seen the game on TV , they know that if they get to the table they can build big breaks and if you make one mistake they go for your jugular . |
| 25 | We agree with MacGowan and Reeves that the half life may be inaccurate if it is calculated from only two values ; but perhaps that is why they have never seen a patient with normal renal function in whom the half life is as long as 7.6 hours , since in clinical practice two measurements are all one has to go on . |
| 26 | Many of them do not see the benefits of moving to a smaller , nationally based firm . |
| 27 | I ask how many of them have ever seen a train . |