Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 2 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 3 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 4 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 5 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 6 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 7 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 8 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 11 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 12 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 13 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 14 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 15 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 16 | I look forward to seeing you on the 9th June . |
| 17 | We hope to see you on the 7th December , especially people from the south and west of the county . |
| 18 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 19 | We 'll see you at the next coaches ' meeting . ’ |
| 20 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 21 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 22 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 23 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
| 24 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 25 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 26 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 27 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 28 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 29 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 30 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |