Example sentences of "see [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 2 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 3 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 4 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 5 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 6 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 7 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 8 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 9 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 10 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 11 | — I believe I am anything but candid : in fact — I am naturally suspicious — & exceedingly reserved , the first good quality arises from my having seen plenty of the evil part of the world from my youth up — the second from being but very little used to company or society — for — excepting Mr. Yarrell — ( whom Mrs. Hewitson & Atkinson know , ) — to whom I go to study bones & muscles — I do n't know a single person in all London to visit intimately . ’ |
| 12 | But he had certainly seen something of the Greek civilization , with its philosophic schools , theatres and gymnasia . |
| 13 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 14 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 15 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 16 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 17 | The committee looks forward to seeing you in the coming year . |
| 18 | Well thanks very much for that Dave I 'll look forward to seeing you in the near future . |
| 19 | In the 1930s , Mr Justice Stone declared that the United States Supreme Court ought not to see itself as the sole guardian of the constitution . |
| 20 | We hope to see you at the grand final in London . |
| 21 | ‘ When you 're through , sir , the CO would like to see you in the Orderly Tent . ’ |
| 22 | The Ego is an expert at being defensive , at rationalising and justifying its own behaviour , at seeing itself as the hapless victim of a cruel , harsh world . |
| 23 | These moves will also mean that the probation service has to stop seeing itself as the exclusive provider of services and facilities : it is suggested that other voluntary or private sectors may make better provision . |
| 24 | I 've looked with binoculars and I ca n't see them with the naked eye . |
| 25 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 26 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 27 | ‘ Can you see me as the Prime Minister 's wife living in Downing Street ? ’ |
| 28 | Mrs Thatcher sees nothing in the single market which cuts against the grain of her policies over the past decade , since it should promote the free enterprise culture within the EC . |
| 29 | He climbed the stairs but could see nothing through the hammered glass panels of the front door . |
| 30 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |