Example sentences of "see [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new partnership allows Diana to base herself at Kensington Palace and to continue to see her circle of friends including James Gilbey and James Hewitt . |
| 2 | At all stages , pupils learn about France and about French customs , and we encourage them to see their study of French as the key to real communication with real French people . |
| 3 | He 'll never have to see himself day after day in a mirror and wonder if it was worth it because he 's blind , you see . |
| 4 | Having seen its share of contracts with the ministry dwindle to ‘ practically zero ’ in 1987 , Mr De Benedetti says Olivetti capitulated and paid up in 1988 . |
| 5 | She ‘ knew ’ that she would not be returning ; no-one had ever seen her fridge in need of care and they were n't going to now . |
| 6 | Robert Bolt , the eminent playwright who had produced A Man For All Seasons and had just seen his screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia completed , wanted Ken for a Puck-like part for his forthcoming play , Gentle Jack . |
| 7 | The Gallup/BBC survey shows that Britons do see their future as part of Europe while remaining rightly sceptical about the benefits so far of EC membership . |
| 8 | Fathers do n't have the sole authority in the home and mothers do n't see their role as servants to men . |
| 9 | Yet the poet often sees her appearance in relation to her poverty , as one manifestation of a generally bleak and constrained way of life . |
| 10 | One such gillie , towards the end of his career , carried out his duties more by instinct than by reason : he had always been shortsighted , but , nearing retirement , he could hardly see his hand in front of his face . |
| 11 | Mr Karimov , one of the more artful of the old-guard Communist Party leaders , sees his style of government as a buffer between growing Muslim fundamentalism and Western-style democracy . |
| 12 | What I did not realise when I bought the house was that in the winter , and sometimes in the summer , the fog rolls thickly in and you can not see your hand in front of your face . |
| 13 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 14 | ‘ Is it meaner than a dungeon so dark that you ca n't see your hand in front of your face ? ’ |
| 15 | Obviously , the farmer sees your success in terms of reduced damage to his crops . |
| 16 | She became close to both women and , although she still saw her mother from time to time and still has a very strong relationship with her that has not been diminished by the divorce , a special bond was forged with the two older women . |
| 17 | She was not going to start lecturing him now and , in any case , insisted that she never saw her role in life as a reformer . |
| 18 | Eliot returned to the Russian Ballet in 1919 , and in 1921 saw their dancing in terms of vegetation rites and primitive ceremonies , but that dancing contained only marginal interest because not linked to the modernity of Stravinsky 's music . |
| 19 | The precise nature of the relations between adult education institutions and organised labour has always been problematic , and usually unsatisfactory , but that there should be a close and organic relationship was never questioned by adult educators who saw their work as part of a broader movement towards social emancipation and change . |
| 20 | In the French election in March , though the Socialists saw their share of seats in parliament collapse , their share of the popular vote hardly budged . |
| 21 | Rather than any physically deterministic or geological reasons , we need to consider the social and religious organisation of the original settlers , their technological capability ( i.e. what tools and techniques they had knowledge of ) and whether , like us , they saw their economy in terms of least effort/cost-benefit or whether some aesthetic or non-practical consideration was equally important . |
| 22 | The malcontent generals saw their role as leaders of this counter revolution which would save the nation and end the war . |
| 23 | He saw their referral of cases to the SMG as a further way of undermining him , and he was determined to fight back . |
| 24 | It was also possible that they saw his state of mind as a potential liability , particularly if he got desperate and tried to escape again . |
| 25 | It seemed an age before I finally saw his collection of Sabatiers on the wall by the cooker . |
| 26 | According to Langford , ‘ The traveller who visits [ Birmingham ] once in six months supposes himself well acquainted with her , but he may chance to find a street of houses in the autumn , where he saw his horse at grass in the spring . ’ |
| 27 | FIG claims that Kevin saw his doctor with backache before taking out the policy and despite letters from his doctor , refused to budge until TODAY became involved . |
| 28 | Ganem saw his role in Nicosia as an extension of his role in Detroit . |
| 29 | I went to see his show in Torquay with relatives who have a disabled daughter . |
| 30 | To seek help against this league of nobles Richard went to see his father in England in April 1176 . |