Example sentences of "[adv] see them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phone now on or pop in to see them at |
| 2 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 3 | Like most birdwatchers , I have only seen them in pictures -invariably in supremely elegant poses , their long , thin beaks delicately probing the water for weeds . |
| 4 | He had only seen them in books and wondered how something as light and puffy as steam could pull such heavy carriages . |
| 5 | " I 'd better see them on their way . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's difficult to work out somebody 's background when you only see them on the ski-slopes or fooling around après-ski . |
| 7 | Because of the mystique — and maybe the image — celebrities and VIPs are quite daunting to those who usually only see them from a distance . |
| 8 | The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities . |
| 9 | In man not seeing them at . |
| 10 | To Ruth , crouching by Gran , he seemed hugely tall ; but he gazed round like a helpless child , seeming not to see them at first . |
| 11 | As they became aware of cinema audiences the vast majority of these intellectuals tended not to see them in quite such a negative way as Chaplin . |
| 12 | The cichlids just seeing them as part of the overall decor would move them out of their way , often causing them to come apart making them useless . |
| 13 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 14 | I had not seen them for over two years . |
| 15 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 16 | I 've not seen them in local garden centres , where can I obtain some ? |
| 17 | I do not see them at all . |
| 18 | Before Jos could knock at the door , it was opened by a tiny old woman bent at such an angle that she could not see them without straightening up , her head cocked to one enquiring side . |
| 19 | Once outside , she breathed a sigh of relief , and strolled with Theda around the left of the house , next to Switham Thicket , so that Araminta would not see them from the window of her parlour . |
| 20 | He almost pranced along the passage with his pet and I hoped fervently that I would not see them in there again . |
| 21 | You could just see them at low water and er that was one of the danger points but I 've never seen ships coming close to Skerrymor at all . |
| 22 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 23 | You can just see them from where you stand now ; they are tantalizingly inaccessible to the public . |
| 24 | Their boots scraped on the floor ; we could just see them from beneath our tarpaulin . |
| 25 | By the time Woolley arrived in her ward she was turning into a slaughterhouse attendant : she no longer saw them as men but as damaged stock ; if they screamed it was not a sign of pain but a signal to fetch a doctor . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've only ever seen them from a distance , ’ the old man whispered . |
| 27 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 28 | One always sees them at the airport in Geneva — they 've got a numbered bank account in Switzerland |
| 29 | However after today 's result Morland staff say no-one will ever see them as an easy target . |
| 30 | You would probably see them on front doors and perhaps some of you have already got them , where about a third of the way up is a little brass plate , and it 's an integral lock that 's fitted into the door . |