Example sentences of "[adv] see [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 2 | He apparently sees Novell as the Grinch who will steal open systems . |
| 3 | William had to fight a much more serious war in Ireland , where the Catholic majority naturally saw James as their best hope for power ; the successful defence of Londonderry and the victory at the Boyne in 1690 became immovable parts of the Protestant tradition ; the Treaty of Limerick and the Protestant failure to honour the treaty 's promises of religious toleration became unforgettable parts of the Catholic view of the history of Ireland . |
| 4 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 5 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 6 | So Anne stayed at home , and only saw Diana in the evenings . |
| 7 | Keeper Neville Southall , the most capped keeper in Welsh history , believes the Belgians will be scared just seeing Giggs among the substitutes . |
| 8 | Having just seen Topper at the Princess the week before , I had all I needed to complete my erotic evaporation fantasies . |
| 9 | I finally saw Dundee on my forty-first birthday and I pledged the ten quid to his lovely leathery face and his matchless , understated performance . |
| 10 | She pressed her lips together , glancing at him with bleak eyes , hardly seeing Luke at all through the blur of tears . |
| 11 | He probably went to his death without once seeing Clara in this state ! ’ |
| 12 | It 's , it 's rarely that Gail , I do n't think I 've ever seen Gail in here . |
| 13 | I ca n't say I 've ever seen Jeff with a geranium stuck behind his ear ! ’ |
| 14 | Patrick had always seen Jane as a maid , she walked , talked and acted as a maid . |
| 15 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 16 | Except that she could still see Julius in every drawing . |
| 17 | I think she still sees Cathy at times |
| 18 | Although Charlie could always see Trentham in front of him , Tommy was so silent in his wake that from time to time he had to look back just to be certain his friend was still there . |
| 19 | Do you ever see Wendy up Kingswood ? |
| 20 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |
| 21 | Yesterday saw Hopkinson in sad , frustrated mood , attacking the ‘ complacency ’ among many field sportsmen and bewailing the lack of support he has received over the past seven years . |
| 22 | But when I pushed open the gate into the yard on my return , I always saw Jean-Claude at the window . |
| 23 | For all its humiliating decline , Khan still saw Delhi as a vibrant and sophisticated city , full of glamour and intrigue ; the beauty of its palaces and shrines , he thought , was rivalled only by the strangeness of the city 's society and its dazzling complement of poets , dancers and mystics . |
| 24 | They still see Scotland as north Britain , an appendage that can be guaranteed to play its part in the Labour unionists ' drama of periodically legitimising long periods of Tory rule by brief interregnums of Labour control . |
| 25 | Many people today still see Freud as some kind of sexual pervert , taking his theories to be rather far-fetched . |
| 26 | For at the same time they still see no alternative to Tayif , and still see Aoun as the one great impediment in its way . |
| 27 | But the man was a romantic and probably saw Steve as an obstacle he might have to overcome . |
| 28 | Surely after three years with the Glens you have realised that we supporters also see Linfield as a superior team with superior resources . |
| 29 | It had been the first time that he had really seen Sara in tears . |
| 30 | Foreigners have too often seen Japan as a monolithic society where individualism is frowned upon and conformity all important , where the tendency is towards harmony and consensus and a healthy element of conflict decidedly absent , and where the role of the group is all-pervasive . |