Example sentences of "see [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would turn down an Oscar to see my boy at a baseball game or my girl at a song recital . |
| 2 | The Luciferi of France ( I 'll come to those bastards later ) would like to see my head on a pole . |
| 3 | A tiny anonymous figure is represented , in isolation against a background of vivid colours , as a self-willed individual , kneeling , crawling , sleeping or learning to see its reflection in a pool . |
| 4 | That in itself may sound daunting , but on its centennial in 1993 the museum would prefer to see its situation as an asset . |
| 5 | Seeing her underwear in a heap , she grabbed at it hastily . |
| 6 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 7 | Marion met him one night when he called to see her father on a matter appertaining to the permanent way adjacent to the signal box . |
| 8 | I explained that I wanted to see her father on a matter of business , but that his office had been unable to tell me where he was , and that I could get no reply by telephoning his home . |
| 9 | These days she usually went to see her family on a week night when all the boys were certain to be home . |
| 10 | Yet they could hardly express their resentment in terms of thwarted personal ambition and so preferred to see their fate as a result of ideological changes in the Party . |
| 11 | One Bangkok stockbroker says that ‘ when people make investments because they want to see their name on a school in their home village , they are heading for trouble . ’ |
| 12 | Those less wealthy are forced to see their training as a means of gaining work abroad , so as to repay education loans or to pay for the schooling of a younger member of the family . |
| 13 | It is eleven Year since I have seen my Figure in a Glass . |
| 14 | He may have seen her death as a judgement . |
| 15 | You should have seen his desk of a morning . |
| 16 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 17 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 18 | There was nothing symbolic in my reflections — I did n't see my mother as a butcher of fish or of me . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll just see my father to a taxi and come back for you . ’ |
| 20 | Though cynics would see their union as a match made in a PR 's wildest dream , there is no doubting that their intentions towards each other are honourable . |
| 21 | Behind this graceful form Martha could see her grandmother in a state of strange tension , arms folded and brows contracted in the effort of masking her feelings . |
| 22 | Some dragon of a receptionist refused to let him see her boss without an appointment . |
| 23 | I ca n't see her fitting into a country lifestyle , somehow . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Slater appears to enjoy the attentions of his doting raven-haired companion , who sees their love as a fixture in a minefield of misfortune ( including a brutal attempted rape ) . |
| 25 | If the clinical teacher sees her role as a trainer developing competence then objectives can be applied ; but if she sees herself as providing something more than this , perhaps aiding and encouraging the development of the nurse as an autonomous person within the context of nursing , then she will go beyond the stage where objectives can be applied . |
| 26 | From the normative point of view , too , the approach to price theory adopted here sees its function in a way that is not related in any essential manner to the state of affairs at equilibrium . |
| 27 | You 'll see his family in a minute , hang on |
| 28 | I can see his point in a way ; he likes a full social life … and he does n't want to sit at home with a wife who is depressed and can only talk about babies . ’ |
| 29 | He sees his university as an embryo of the future . |
| 30 | He sees his involvement as an opportunity to have his views heard by people who have some control of the services : ‘ I liked the idea of working with people in authority . |