Example sentences of "[pers pn] see in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my first article I wrote of the ingenuity and imagination I saw in children 's play in Asia . |
| 2 | ‘ I see in painters prose writers and poets . |
| 3 | I think that people have got to turn in the other direction , and really want to be because I see in schools there are |
| 4 | The ‘ villas ’ ( Dutch for ‘ chalet ’ ) are identikit , standardised boxes , and nestled between the trees they look rather like those huts you see in documentaries about Stalin 's relocation policies . |
| 5 | More a portrait like you see in photographers ’ windows ; reclining on a divan or something — only she would be asleep . ’ |
| 6 | I knew initially I did n't want a man in a silver suit with a mask over his head — the sort of thing you see in fairgrounds . |
| 7 | I may not look like one of these stick insects you see in magazines but at least I 'm happy . |
| 8 | But I was thinking of the ones you see in cottages . |
| 9 | He studied the dirigibles through a pair of those really amazing computerized binoculars that you see in movies . |
| 10 | I love the clothes , shoes and silly gadgets you see in catalogues . |
| 11 | And everybody that sent cards , I mean it was really great I mean get well cards are sort of things that you see in shops and you never really think about it , but when when you 're lying flat on your back in hospital and you get cards for people , I mean it really does give you a lift . |
| 12 | The interior of the bus was lit only by a small torch made to look like an old lamp , the type you see in Westerns , and from what I could see I was glad there was no more light . |
| 13 | My own taste for formal furniture tends to fall between the ‘ Arts and Crafts ’ and ‘ Modern ’ , rather than ‘ Repro ’ , and yet looking at modern designs you see in exhibitions , I doubt their ‘ long-sit ’ comfort and , personally , I feel that the limits of acceptable elegance are frequently passed by many , in the cause of being different . |
| 14 | Not the sort of love that you see in films when the big hairy hero takes his girlfriend in his arms , half suffocates her with a big slobbering kiss and then says , ‘ I love you , Ermentrude . ’ |
| 15 | We saw in Chapters 4 and 5 just how effective both the coordinating committee and the schools ' library committees could be as bodies which handled the nuts and bolts of the project and converted aims and objectives into a reality . |
| 16 | As we saw in chapters 6 and 7 , for pluralists the activities of groups are the central feature of the political process . |
| 17 | But as we saw in Chapters 5 and 6 there may be very many extraneous word strings which are homophonous with the correct words , and which extend some if not all of the way through the utterance . |
| 18 | And the grey ghost and all them we saw in serials and of course we used to follow them up go every Saturday afternoon and follow these serials up . |
| 19 | The orderly American " dating " we saw in films or heard about in pop songs never happened in my adolescence . |
| 20 | We shall find that there is a very good general rule that , while adjectives may qualify verbs or verb phrases as well as nouns , the property which an adjective designates is understood to apply to the entity of that noun phrase with which it is in construction most directly ( but not necessarily immediately , as we see in Chapters 3 to 9 ) . |
| 21 | But if that fails , many of us are influenced by the testimonials we see in brochures . |
| 22 | In fact , the diamonds we see in jewellers ' windows are typical of only a small percentage of natural diamonds . |
| 23 | They influence not only the way the audience receives cultural texts , but also what gets exhibited in museums , the paintings we see in books and magazines and on television , and what gets taught in the art schools . |
| 24 | Is it endowed with some kind of abstract , almost Platonic existence , or is it seen in terms of its social context ? |
| 25 | Patterns of behaviour which appear strange or even wrong from the standpoint of the outside observer interpreting what he sees in terms of his own cultural frame of reference , may , when understood in their broader cultural setting , be perfectly reasonable and even commendable . |