Example sentences of "see [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 2 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 3 | He was an ungallant swine for deliberately not coming to her aid , but in truth he really wanted to see which of the likely lads , would dash forward . |
| 4 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 5 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 6 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 7 | We have seen something of the various situations in which non-fatal physical harm might occur . |
| 8 | These are the people who have seen her through the difficult times , who have helped her adjust to the life before her and who have kept her in touch with the real world . |
| 9 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 10 | They 're advertising , we 'll see them in the Yellow Pages . |
| 11 | She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her . |
| 12 | She could see it in the covert glances of the London girls , some of whom had been planning how to look at the Belvoir dance for the past month . |
| 13 | You can see it in the glazed looks on the faces of the crowd tonight — they 've never seen anything like it ! |
| 14 | ‘ It 's full speed ahead for the seasons , and , if I can , I work 12 or 14 hours a day then , because otherwise I ca n't see myself through the quiet times . |
| 15 | And that should see us through the difficult times . ’ |
| 16 | We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight … |
| 17 | When she spent all night every night watching her clientele , her boys , it was for this ; she was waiting for her chosen ones , the last of her protegés , her perfect couple , her two to see her through the dark times . |
| 18 | It was difficult to see her through the dazzling spurts of fire ; she seemed to be less and less there . |
| 19 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 20 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 21 | Even if anyone saw it under the charred fringes of her robe , she could say it was homework . |
| 22 | She heard it in the raised treble , saw it in the bright eyes . |
| 23 | The magnates saw themselves as the natural counsellors of the king , and argued in the Boulogne agreement and in the petition against the Despensers that they had a duty to act to protect the realm if the king was being led by unwise counsel . |
| 24 | Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment . |
| 25 | People certainly built last year who first saw us at the Ideal Homes Exhibition in 1984 and 1985 . |
| 26 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 27 | In this mailing from the Office you will already see that a National Draw is taking place , this was planned 12 months ago to increase our income , now we have to rely on the profit to see us through the lean times . |
| 28 | In passing through Inverness , do not grudge to halt a night to visit the islands : if the night is moonlit , revisit the scene , and see it under the mellow beams . |
| 29 | They see it in the high standards he and his people consistently achieve . |