Example sentences of "see [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet the poet often sees her appearance in relation to her poverty , as one manifestation of a generally bleak and constrained way of life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Is it meaner than a dungeon so dark that you ca n't see your hand in front of your face ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At least this dust was somewhat localized whilst that from machine drills could fill headings and stopes until at times it was impossible for a miner to see his hand in front of his face in the dim candlelight . |
| 18 | A casual remark to his father as to the whereabouts of his stepmother was answered by a curt ‘ Gone to see your aunt in Eastleech for a couple of days . |
| 19 | The term ‘ self-negotiated ’ can , however , also cause confusion , particularly in language teaching where students see their measure of success in their ability to speak and understand the target language and the progress they make in one particular course book . |
| 20 | Rooney 's large canvasses and works on paper are always memorable and , on reflection , I see his work as part of an English tradition of individual ‘ eccentricity ’ which stretches from Blake to Stanley Spencer , Paul Nash and Carel Weight . |