Example sentences of "see it [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We urgently appeal to anybody who may have seen it during the 48 hours in which it was missing to contact us . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 4 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 5 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some observers can see it with the naked eye under ideal conditions , though I certainly can not . |
| 9 | She could see it in the covert glances of the London girls , some of whom had been planning how to look at the Belvoir dance for the past month . |
| 10 | But you can see it in the glazed look in his eyes . |
| 11 | You can see it in the glazed looks on the faces of the crowd tonight — they 've never seen anything like it ! |
| 12 | She could see it in the black expression that crossed his face and the tightened lips . |
| 13 | In other words while the public may have all watched the same news they did n't all see it in the same way . |
| 14 | ‘ Pity everyone does n't see it in the same light . ’ |
| 15 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 16 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 17 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 18 | Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home . |
| 19 | Even if anyone saw it under the charred fringes of her robe , she could say it was homework . |
| 20 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 21 | One though , Urathion of Ullar , saw it for the world-destroying madness that it was . |
| 22 | Flavia , looking from an upper window , saw it , saw it on the exact spot where she had first seen Michel , experienced confusion , incredulous joy , a pang . |
| 23 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 24 | Jane saw it in the smallest things , all impossible in self-conscious Britain . |
| 25 | It 's worth also mentioning , since you saw it in the practical class , that staphylococci in general produce this enzyme catalase all of these er lo thi this is the enzyme which breaks down hydrogen peroxide and detoxifies it . |
| 26 | She felt it with her pores , saw it in the slight lift of his eyebrow and the way one corner of his mouth tucked . |
| 27 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 28 | She heard it in the raised treble , saw it in the bright eyes . |
| 29 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
| 30 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |