Example sentences of "see [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 2 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 3 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 4 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 5 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 6 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 7 | He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time . |
| 8 | ‘ He had to go to Burford to see someone about a new job . ’ |
| 9 | He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great , brown eyes , Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer , leader of a gang of vagabonds . |
| 10 | Yet Æthelred was not always militarily inactive , reluctant to see himself in a military light , or unwilling to make military preparations . |
| 11 | When has anyone among you seen me with a gloomy face ? |
| 12 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 13 | Some have seen them as a fine declaration of faith , but they are not . |
| 14 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 16 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 17 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 18 | ‘ Have you seen owt of a black dog ? ’ said Jack to Philip . |
| 19 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
| 20 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't seen you in a long time . ’ |
| 22 | I have n't seen you in a long time . |
| 23 | The tight one will I 've never seen you in a tight dress though , you do n't let me see so I |
| 24 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 25 | Leslie had an aunt in Durban , but by great misfortune disembarkation was on this occasion not allowed , and he did not meet the relative who had last seen him as a little boy in Scotland . |
| 26 | He could only assume that , being unaware of his true status as a DIA agent , the DEA and its oversight agency , the FBI , had seen him as a soft target , and framed the passport violation charge as a means of silencing an awkward witness without realizing who he was or the damage they were doing . |
| 27 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 28 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 29 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 30 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |