Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 3 | You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ? |
| 4 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 5 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
| 6 | As we praise God for all our circumstances , seeing them in the light of his presence and love , then we become literally ‘ thankful persons ’ , transfused by a new radiance of joy and thanksgiving . |
| 7 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 8 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 9 | By leaving Brentwoods earlier than anticipated , she had not seen him through the publication of his novel . |
| 10 | I have never seen him at the Council of Europe and I serve on the social , health and family affairs committee , which he has never attended . |
| 11 | You have seen him in the space of one half-hour |
| 12 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 13 | Creggan had never seen her at the front of her cage before . |
| 14 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 15 | I find myself dipping into my pocket and giving to causes that a decade ago I would have refused to because I would have seen it as the responsibility of the statutory sector . |
| 16 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |
| 17 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
| 18 | What a sharp , sneering face he had had , though she could not see it , as she had not seen it in the darkness of her dream . |
| 19 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 20 | You 've seen it in the corner of the office . |
| 21 | We both look forward to seeing you at the end of this term , and to those warm family evenings of good food , relaxation and talk . |
| 22 | The radical feminist analysis described at the beginning of this chapter would see these as aspects of men 's patriarchal control over women ; the Marxist feminists would see them as a result of capitalism ; others would see them as the outcome of both systems , and indeed of racist systems too . |
| 23 | And then erm one afternoon we went in a dug out canoe erm to look for crocodiles and we did actually see them on the banks of the river as we were going down in our canoe , so that was quite exciting . |
| 24 | Once outside , she breathed a sigh of relief , and strolled with Theda around the left of the house , next to Switham Thicket , so that Araminta would not see them from the window of her parlour . |
| 25 | Mum was pleased as punch when she found that Mary had bought us new clothes , but she was not so pleased when Mary told her she could n't see them until the day of the wedding and took them straight up and locked them in her trunk . |
| 26 | ‘ Men do n't see me as the stuff of their romantic dreams . |
| 27 | And you might just see me in the background of one of the shots . |
| 28 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 29 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |
| 30 | I 'll see you at the end of April . ’ |