Example sentences of "[modal v] see them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence Durkheim insisted that to understand one set of social phenomena we must see them in the round — in their wider , social context . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll see them at the wedding , ’ said my mother . |
| 3 | . Here briefly , because we 'll see them on the inside , you 've got the main bed-chambers above . |
| 4 | We 'll see them on the telly then . |
| 5 | They 're advertising , we 'll see them in the Yellow Pages . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll see them in there , then . |
| 7 | And I 'm sure you 'll see them in operation tomorrow , we 've got six bowlers in all so we 're fairly confident that we 'll er bowl whatever the conditions . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll see them from here , ’ he said . |
| 9 | You may see them during the summer when they rest in Britain . |
| 10 | Their relatives were overjoyed that they could see them on stage when they returned to their home town in the summer for a couple of weeks at the prestigious new Palace of Varieties . |
| 11 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 12 | ‘ I could see them at the hotel . |
| 13 | You could see them for yourself , past the next bit of wood . |
| 14 | Well , yeah I was just , you you could see them for , just thinking that perhaps you could be slightly biased in one when |
| 15 | Duncan and Myeloski sat on his right side , near the bedhead so that he could see them without having to turn his head . |
| 16 | Those who were safely beached on the shore of prosperity had the option of giving the credit to Providence , or arrogating it to themselves ; as they regarded those less fortunate ones who were struggling in the water , they could see them as victims of their own improvidence or of God 's ineluctable decree . |
| 17 | That meant the police had gone up the other way — but could see them by turning . |
| 18 | You could see them in the bull-neck , in the big shoulders , in the thick arms , in the sinewy wrists and in the powerful legs . |
| 19 | The tears were streaming down his face ; I could see them in the light from my room . |
| 20 | And at dinnertime we used to look through this window and we could see all the lodging houses , and under the beds You could see them in bed . |
| 21 | He could see them in chains , walking in bloodied battle armour through the ancient corridors . |
| 22 | Jed could see them from the car , drinking beers and swapping jokes . |
| 23 | ‘ I could see them from the window in that place . |
| 24 | You sold er they , they 'd got these sort of erm the old- fashioned , you 'd see them in the corn merchants where there would be fowl er feed . |
| 25 | ‘ So I said I 'd see them in a few days . |
| 26 | Last night editor Richard Stott — then in charge of The People newspaper , which published the story — said of a possible retrial : ‘ We shall see them in court . |
| 27 | In another language where mother 's brothers and father 's brothers are referred to by different words we would see them as different kinds of relatives . |
| 28 | Another interpretation of the changes would see them as part of a longer-term shift towards new relationships between government and the wider political economy . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |