Example sentences of "[verb] see it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 2 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
| 3 | Local councillor Eddie McEvilly said : ‘ I do n't really want to talk about conditions on the operation , because I do n't want to see it at all . ’ |
| 4 | Monism , with its rejection of the form-meaning dichotomy , was a tenet of the New Critics , who rejected the idea that a poem conveys a message , preferring to see it as an autonomous verbal artefact . |
| 5 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 6 | We tend to see it from perhaps sort of Heathrow that you want to go in , into London because that 's where , where the links are , by roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Piccadilly line . |
| 7 | Eyam is a small , intimate house , so do n't all rush to see it at once , for the guides can accommodate only limited numbers on their tours . |
| 8 | More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form . |
| 9 | ‘ What I want to know is what 's so interesting on the other side of that wall that Madonna has to see it before putting her knickers on ? ’ |
| 10 | The film we 're going to see is Flatliners , and Denice tells us she 's been dying to see it for ages . |
| 11 | The reader should resist the temptation to think of the law as a closed set of rules and principles , and should strive to see it as a setting in which the business of politics and government is carried on . |
| 12 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |
| 13 | We have come to see it through the eyes of the people who take part in it . |
| 14 | I agree wholeheartedly , with what we were saying , what we do n't want to see is a whole one house block in the countryside , he wants to see it as part of a farmstead and order to prove that it 's going to be part of a farmstead , the buildings should be prerequisite to go up first before the house does . |
| 15 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 16 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | MAY 1993 During the Khmelnitski exchange visit to Hunterston great interest was shown in TOP and the Director and Deputy Director of Khmelnitski NPP sat in on a team meeting to see it in action . |
| 19 | As soon as voters came to see it as a real choice between Labour and the Conservatives , thousands of waverers who had told the polls they were going to vote Labour or Liberal Democrats , clearly decamped . |
| 20 | If the complex we observed was required for PPT expression we would expect to see it in these cells . |
| 21 | Scott , it declared , ‘ wants a tight rein , and we hope to see it in Lord Palmerston 's hand ’ , but he should resign rather than undertake work in any other than that in which he has distinguished himself . |
| 22 | Oh , it was terrible , I 'd seen it on video , it 's really sad . |
| 23 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 24 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |
| 25 | Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said . |
| 26 | She said she 'd seen it in her window . |
| 27 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 28 | He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down . |
| 29 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 30 | I thought I 'd seen it in here let's have a look . |