Example sentences of "[pron] see them [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack . |
2 | It would be better to admit that these murderous wishes and impulses exist than to deny them , and feel guilt-laden as a result of not allowing ourselves to see them for what they are . |
3 | I flash upon my own family ; the way I have to think a moment before deciding who to include in my family , whether to include the step-parents or the siblings on my father 's side whom I would not know should I see them on the street , the hastiness of Mom and Larry on Sunday swirls between galleries and sushi , untapered by excess or sentimentality , busy with books and foreign films and the Sunday supplement of the New York Times , the wisdom of Ivy Leagues and schedules too dense to live by , to wake by , to sleep and breathe by . |
4 | I saw them on telly at my mate 's house . |
5 | and er I saw them on a rack and they were |
6 | Surprisingly , however , all these verbs ( except , apparently , watch can also be construed with the to infinitive : ( 36 ) I saw them to be obnoxious . |
7 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
8 | And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front . |
9 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
10 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
11 | Well I saw them at the , er round the corner at Mount Man Road , on that estate |
12 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
13 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
14 | I saw them as a people honed by sun and wind to essential flesh and bone , accustomed since childhood to hardship , possessed of extraordinary mobility and genius for war . |
15 | I saw them in the field with the fallen stones . |
16 | Well I I saw them in Mill , but I did n't know which size , size you need actually I saw some in Mill . |
17 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
18 | I saw them against Genoa and I was very impressed . |
19 | I saw them from the window and called to them that I would tell the police who they were . |
20 | ‘ I saw them from my window . |
21 | I saw them from the penthouse bar |
22 | I see them as women wanting lone motherhood as a gesture of independence and to augment a feminist argument that men are useful but disposable . |
23 | On his attitude to Sinn Fein , Mr Wilson said : ‘ I see them as fascists . |
24 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
25 | I see them in the village day after day , standin' outside the public houses with their hands in their pockets , passin' remarks on the people passing by . ’ |
26 | When I see them in the church I always talk to them and I said ‘ Look have you got bottles ? ’ and sometimes they 'll say yes and sometimes they 'll say no . |
27 | Oh that 's erm your objection er was nobody had seen me and you did n't really answer the question clients by coming in to their homes you know , Martin made the comment er that in actual fact nobody had seen them seen them in six or seven years so I thought that was a possibility for a just er oh n maybe not as deep a but nevertheless erm there was a good , good pause er er how did you er come to be with Friends Provident er you , it was good that you asked er er if the wife would be attending the second meeting , that was an important thing . |
28 | Are women being exploited by a system which sees them as easy targets ? |
29 | The reciprocity measures , as originally drafted in 1988 , had aroused particularly strong protests from the USA and from Japan , which saw them as part of a protectionist " fortress Europe " policy designed to exclude non-EC institutions . |
30 | The reorganization of the Training Commission has already shifted decision-making on post-sixteen training towards non-elected decision-making forums , often with the enthusiastic involvement of colleges which see them as sources of additional funds . |