Example sentences of "they see [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did they see her with the man ? ’ |
| 2 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 3 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 4 | Both babies would smile stickily when they saw me over the edge of the cot , which was gratifying in a way , but I knew it was only because they were programmed that way , like public relations men . |
| 5 | They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem |
| 6 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 7 | Of course , Marx and Engels focused most on this late stage , since they saw it as the cause of the rise of capitalism . |
| 8 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 9 | Mind you , some do a double-take when they see me in the flesh . |
| 10 | As infants slowly become aware of the mother as a separate person , they see her as the owner of a much needed resource . |
| 11 | And rather than viewing the party 's triumph in October as an expression of the will of the Russian masses , they see it as the product of manipulation of an unstable situation by an élite group of fanatical revolutionaries . |
| 12 | But we must n't blame philosophers if they tell it as they see it with the aid of their philosophical telescopes and microscopes . |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes they see you in the street and start searching you for no reason . |