Example sentences of "[pron] see [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disinterested passions compel me to see from other viewpoints , but also blind me to the equality of viewpoints . |
| 2 | It 's like this film I seen about these penguins — you know , how they all lived together on this island , and they was loads of them , all jammed together . |
| 3 | I 've got ta go and see someone else , who else should I see about this ? |
| 4 | And er she got it away eventually bathing it and talking to the little girl and then she said to her now I want you to come here every day she said so I can I see to that for you . |
| 5 | When I first met John Hurt in 1977 , when he was in Devon filming The Shout , I saw at first hand how much he drank . |
| 6 | Thus I saw at first hand the developing excitement within the scientific community on two continents as thousands of us changed research programmes literally overnight and attempted to replicate the phenomenon . |
| 7 | I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 10 | I had an image of GLF existing through meeting people and talking to them , but the only physical evidence I saw at that time was badges saying GLF . |
| 11 | There is no poor law infirmary nearer than Waterford , so I took her there , and that was the last I saw of that dreadful day . |
| 12 | Debbie knew how to defend herself , I saw to that , but a kidnapping 's something else . ’ |
| 13 | I took my early ones in black and white , but the later ones I took in colour and er I saw to one side of Orion what looked like the Plough . |
| 14 | And names I saw on printed lists , quotas , manifests . |
| 15 | I recall the time that I saw on one of the stalls a bone-handled Scout knife and though only a Wolf-Cub , determined to buy one . |
| 16 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 17 | one night when Paul came up and I was n't asleep and I saw like this bright light |
| 18 | I saw in all of them the potential of poets and mystics . |
| 19 | Anyway I I bought a little book that I saw in one of the shops and it was er The Industrial Lawyer . |
| 20 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 21 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 22 | Men not in Botha 's mould , nor like some of the bangers I saw in some up-country games . |
| 23 | To say that an object which I see with perfect indifference makes an impression upon my mind is not , as I apprehend , good English … |
| 24 | As I sit on the bus going westward I realize this could be the last I see of this manor . |
| 25 | Between them , I see through large holes to moist saffron earth a few feet below . |
| 26 | It does n't happen , and students are the poorer because the compounds that I see as old friends are more like enemies to them . |
| 27 | And and I see in two weeks . |
| 28 | Oh captain , I see in this my ending , what I think you did n't start to glimpse with your most cunning intuition ; the soldiers are always the real refugees . |
| 29 | ‘ Such belief as I have — I see in those symbols . ’ |
| 30 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |